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In other cases apparently it is the trees which are benefited, since it is said that men sometimes go naked into the Clove plantations at night in order by a sort of sexual intercourse to fertilize them. Vol. i, p. 40, Vol. iii, pp. 24 sq. Ibid., vol. ii, p. 98. One might go on multiplying examples in this direction quite indefinitely. There is no end to them.
They put his dead body, open-faced, with the state accustomed, in the great gilded hall of the Palace; and upon Saturday, at night, will carry it to the Escurial to be interred in the incomparable Pantheon there, begun by his grandfather, carried on by his father, and finished by himself in his life-time to a ninth wonder, if the Escurial be the eighth, as the Spaniards term it. Ibid. f. 387.
The strict application of these precautionary measures has allowed a number of monuments of the highest interest in their relation to art and archæology to be protected and defended, but it does not appear that the Government controls in any way those monuments which are in the hands of private persons. Ibid.
So, if the author were a chancellor and one of his speculations were, that the poorer the clergy the better; would not that be of great use, if a cause came before him of tithes or Church lands? Ibid. "Which can only be known by examining whether men had any power in the state of nature over their own, or others' actions in these matters."
Bachofen believes that this formed a fresh basis for a second gynæcocracy. He compares the Amazonian period of these later days with that in which marriage was first introduced, and finds that “the deep religious impulse being absent, it was destined to fail, and give place to the spiritual Apollonic conception of fatherhood.” Ibid., p. 85.
Not less earnestly than benevolently do our quack doctors implore us to beware of spurious articles; Day and Martin exhort us not to take our polish from counterfeit blacking: every advertiser beseeches the "pensive public" to be upon its guard against supposititious articles all, in short, is knavery, juggling, cheating, and deception. Ibid.
Ibid., pp. 389-390. Ibid., pp. 391-394. Laura Fair, who reportedly had been the mistress of Alexander P. Crittenden for six years, was acquitted of his murder on the grounds that his death was not due to her pistol shot but to a disease from which he was suffering. Ms., Diary, July 13-23, 1871. Harper, Anthony, I, p. 396. Ibid. Ms., Diary, Oct. 13, 1871. Harper, Anthony, I, p. 403.
He was at this time a bright young lawyer of good ability and character. Ibid. Ibid., 849. Ibid., 1179. 5. Ibid. Ibid. Report of War Dept., 1898, Vol. I, part 2, p. 69. Taylor, Exhibit 739. The following two telegrams were sent by General Pio del Pilar to Aguinaldo at 9.30 P.M.:
It should be, "Silent, though not quiet." Ibid, Burnet. One Carstairs, a loose and vicious gentleman. Swift. Epithets well placed. Burnet. How extraordinary? Might it not kill him as well as another man? Burnet, in the battle at St. Yet the other bodies fought so well, that he lost not much, besides the honour of the day. Swift. He was used to that. Burnet.
Ibid., 26; see also Baxter's Dying Thoughts, in Works, XVIII, 284, where he refers to the Demon of Mascon, a story for which Boyle, as we have seen, had stood sponsor in England. Ch. VII, sect. iv, in Works, XXII, 327. Two other collectors of witch stories deserve perhaps a note here, for each prefaced his collection with a discussion of witchcraft. Nat.
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