The Indicator, and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and the Fire-side, Bind 1H. Colburn, 1834 |
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Side 36
... Genius , the Penates , and the Lares . The first was supposed to be a spirit allotted to every man from his birth , some say with a companion ; and that one of them was a suggester of good thoughts , and the other of evil . It 36 THE ...
... Genius , the Penates , and the Lares . The first was supposed to be a spirit allotted to every man from his birth , some say with a companion ; and that one of them was a suggester of good thoughts , and the other of evil . It 36 THE ...
Side 37
... Genius was a personification of the conscience , or rather of the prevailing impulses of the mind , or the other self of a man ; and it was in this sense most likely that Socrates condescended to speak of his well - known Dæmon , Genius ...
... Genius was a personification of the conscience , or rather of the prevailing impulses of the mind , or the other self of a man ; and it was in this sense most likely that Socrates condescended to speak of his well - known Dæmon , Genius ...
Side 38
... Genius , not having been used by the translators of the Greek Testament , has survived with a better meaning , and is employed to express our most genial and intellectual faculties . Such and such a man is said to indulge his genius ...
... Genius , not having been used by the translators of the Greek Testament , has survived with a better meaning , and is employed to express our most genial and intellectual faculties . Such and such a man is said to indulge his genius ...
Side 54
... Genius fishing for us . Fancy him baiting a great hook with pickled salmon , and twitching up old Isaac Walton from the banks of the river Lee , with the hook through his ear . How he would go up , roaring and screaming , and thinking ...
... Genius fishing for us . Fancy him baiting a great hook with pickled salmon , and twitching up old Isaac Walton from the banks of the river Lee , with the hook through his ear . How he would go up , roaring and screaming , and thinking ...
Side 72
... Genius in the Arabian Nights . The reader is to sup- pose that the mist , after ascending , comes gliding over the water ; and condensing itself into a human shape , lands the white - footed goddess on the shore . When Achilles , after ...
... Genius in the Arabian Nights . The reader is to sup- pose that the mist , after ascending , comes gliding over the water ; and condensing itself into a human shape , lands the white - footed goddess on the shore . When Achilles , after ...
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