Greeko-Slavonic: Ilchester Lectures on Greeko-Slavonic Literature and Its Relation to the Folk-lore of Europe During the Middle AgesTrübner, 1887 - 229 pages |
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Page 204 - Germany at the end of the Middle Ages. We leave out of our consideration those territories which at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century...
Page 244 - earliest attempt on record to give an answer, from reason alone, to the mysterious questions which arise in every thoughtful mind about the origin of the world, the nature and relations of man and his future destiny...
Page 241 - BUDDHIST BIRTH STORIES; or, Jataka Tales. The Oldest Collection of Folk-lore Extant : BEING THE JATAKATTHAVANNANA, For the first time Edited in the original Pali. BY V. FAUSBOLL ; And Translated by TW RHYS DAVIDS. Translation.
Page 241 - A TALMUDIC MISCELLANY ; or, One Thousand and One Extracts from the Talmud, the Midrashim, and the Kabbalah.
Page 202 - And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered. And also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
Page 237 - It passes under review a vast number of languages, and it gives, or professes to give, in every case the sum and substance of the opinions and judgments of the best-informed writers."— Saturday Review.
Page 244 - The merit of the work has been emphatically recognised by the most authoritative Orientalists, both in this country and on the continent of Europe, But probably there are few Indianists (if we may use the word) who would not derive a good deal of information from it, and especially from the extensive bibliography provided in the notes.
Page 243 - Eastern luxuriousness and sensuousness ; the air seems laden with the spicy odours of the tropics, and the verse has a richness and a melody sufficient to captivate the senses of the dullest.