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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Evil when it came , was supposed to be for a good purpose : or rather not being
of a nature to be immediately got rid of , was turned to good account ; and man
was ultimately the better for it . The demon did every thing he could to exalt the ...
Evil when it came , was supposed to be for a good purpose : or rather not being
of a nature to be immediately got rid of , was turned to good account ; and man
was ultimately the better for it . The demon did every thing he could to exalt the ...
Page 85
The Pygmies were supposed by the ancients to people the two ends of the earth ,
northern and southern , where the growth of nature was faint and stunted . In the
north they were inhabitants of India , the cranes their enemies being Scythians ...
The Pygmies were supposed by the ancients to people the two ends of the earth ,
northern and southern , where the growth of nature was faint and stunted . In the
north they were inhabitants of India , the cranes their enemies being Scythians ...
Page 166
The Faun , in particular , who was the more oracular of the two , might be
supposed either to speak from his own knowledge , or to be merely the channel
of a higher one , and so to partake of that reverend character of fatuity , which is
ascribed ...
The Faun , in particular , who was the more oracular of the two , might be
supposed either to speak from his own knowledge , or to be merely the channel
of a higher one , and so to partake of that reverend character of fatuity , which is
ascribed ...
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Contents
Prefatory Note | 13 |
On Commonplace People | 42 |
On the Genii of the Greeks and Romans and | 59 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A Day by the Fire: And Other Papers, Hitherto Uncollected |
| Author | Leigh Hunt |
| Editor | Joseph Edward Babson |
| Publisher | Roberts Brothers, 1870 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | 6 May 2015 |
| Length | 368 pages |
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