Zur naturwissenschaftlichen Behandlungsweise der Psychologie durch und für die Völkerkunde: einige Abhandlungen

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Weidmann, 1883 - 230 sider

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Side 121 - How troublesome are the young men, begging for our wreaths of flowers, while they say in their flattery, ' See how charming these young girls look coming from Licoo! — how beautiful are their skins, diffusing around a fragrance like the flowery precipice of Mataloco': — Let us also visit Licoo; — we will depart to-morrow.
Side 120 - Vavaoo was torn to pieces by war. Alas! how destructive is war! — Behold! how it has rendered the land productive of weeds, and opened untimely graves for departed heroes! Our chiefs can now no longer enjoy the sweet pleasure of wandering alone by moonlight in search of their mistresses: but let us banish sorrow from our hearts: since we are at war, we must think and act like the natives of Fiji, who first taught us this destructive art. Let us therefore enjoy...
Side 120 - And now as we stand motionless on the eminence over Anoo Mdnoo, the whistling of the wind among the branches of the lofty ion shall fill us with a pleasing melancholy ; or our minds shall be seized with astonishment as we behold the roaring surf below, endeavouring but in vain to tear away the firm rocks. Oh ! how much happier shall we be thus employed, than when engaged in the troublesome and insipid affairs of life ! Now, as night comes on, we must return to the Mooa : — but hark!
Side 190 - Mystery,' they worship everything in nature. Not man alone, but the snn, the moon, the stars, all the lower animals, all trees and plants, rivers and lakes, many boulders and other separated rocks, even some hills and buttes which stand alone — in short, everything not made by human hands, which has an independent being, or can be individualized, possesses a spirit, or, more properly, a shade. To these shades some respect or consideration is due, but not equally to all. . . . The sun is held in...
Side 46 - ... et que les genres , les ordres et les classes, n'existent que dans notre imagination.
Side 120 - ... off the colour of our skins. Mark how the uncultivated spectators are profuse of their applause! — But now the dance is over: let us remain here to-night, and feast and be cheerful, and to-morrow we will depart for the Mooa.
Side xv - Altogether at least a score of pigeons might be chosen, which, if shown to an ornithologist, and he were told that they were wild birds, would certainly be ranked by him as well-defined species.
Side 120 - Whilst we were talking of Vavaoo tooa Lico,7 the women said to us, let us repair to the back of the island to contemplate the setting sun: there let us listen to the warbling of the birds and the cooing of the wood-pigeon. We will gather flowers from the burying-place at Matawto...
Side 93 - Gallus Aelius ait sacrum esse quodcumque more atque instituto civitatis consecratum sit, sive aedis sive ara sive signum sive locus sive pecunia sive quid aliud quod dis dedicatum atque consecratum sit; quod autem privati suae religionis causa aliquid earum rerum deo dedicent, id 5 pontífices Romanos non existimare sacrum...
Side 190 - The ideas of all the tribes within our borders have undoubtedly been greatly modified by intercourse with the whites; and, recognizing this fact, many claim that the Great Spirit, or, more properly, Great Mystery, is a deity of the modern Indian only. I have certainly heard some old and very conservative Minnetarees speak of Mahopa as if they meant thereby an influence or power above all other things, but not attaching to it any ideas of personality. It would now be perhaps impossible to make a just...

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