A Day by the Fire: And Other Papers, Hitherto UncollectedIncludes papers on Heathen mythology, Genii of antiquity, Genii and fairies of the East, etc. |
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Vulcan , he says , was called Mammon in heaven , and was a fallen angel . But
he has another name for him better than either . Hear how he rolls the harmony of
his vowels . Nor was his name unheard , or unador'd In ancient Greece ; and in ...
Vulcan , he says , was called Mammon in heaven , and was a fallen angel . But
he has another name for him better than either . Hear how he rolls the harmony of
his vowels . Nor was his name unheard , or unador'd In ancient Greece ; and in ...
Page 60
Next to the gods came the demons , who partook of their divinity mixed with what
he called the soul of the world , and ministered round about them as well as on
earth ; in fact , were the angels of the Christian system but a little more allied to ...
Next to the gods came the demons , who partook of their divinity mixed with what
he called the soul of the world , and ministered round about them as well as on
earth ; in fact , were the angels of the Christian system but a little more allied to ...
Page 61
If so , there is no saying how far we are not indebted for our ordinary notions of
angels themselves to Plato , nor indeed how far the Christian and Jewish angel
and the demon of the Greeks are not one and the same spirit ; for it is impossible
to ...
If so , there is no saying how far we are not indebted for our ordinary notions of
angels themselves to Plato , nor indeed how far the Christian and Jewish angel
and the demon of the Greeks are not one and the same spirit ; for it is impossible
to ...
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stories of the gods , and their freaks upon earth ; for demons , any more than
angels , were not incapable of a little aberration . The supposed visits , for
instance , of Jupiter down to earth , when he came - “ Now , like a ram , fair Helle
to pervert ...
stories of the gods , and their freaks upon earth ; for demons , any more than
angels , were not incapable of a little aberration . The supposed visits , for
instance , of Jupiter down to earth , when he came - “ Now , like a ram , fair Helle
to pervert ...
Page 68
Had he been gay and confident , not overwhelmed with scrofula , and with the
more gloomy parts of his creed , he might have sworn as Socrates did , that it was
his guardian angel that told him not to go that way . Had it been Jeremy Taylor ...
Had he been gay and confident , not overwhelmed with scrofula , and with the
more gloomy parts of his creed , he might have sworn as Socrates did , that it was
his guardian angel that told him not to go that way . Had it been Jeremy Taylor ...
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| Title | A Day by the Fire: And Other Papers, Hitherto Uncollected |
| Author | Leigh Hunt |
| Editor | Joseph Edward Babson |
| Publisher | Roberts Brothers, 1870 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 7 Aug 2019 |
| Length | 368 pages |
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