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Taken prisoners, their heads were cut off and sent to Cordova, where the kalif was cruel enough to present them to their imprisoned father for identification. Now let the ballad take up the story: "He took their heads up one by one, he kissed them o'er and o'er; And aye ye saw the tears run down, I wot that grief was sore.
In the matter of prescription, therefore, buyer and seller were identified, like heir and ancestor. But the question remains whether this identification bore fruit in other parts of the law also, or whether it was confined to one particular branch, where the Roman law was grafted upon the English stock.
Again, the identification of the person with the corn appears alike in the savage custom of adapting the age and stature of the victim to the age and stature, whether actual or expected, of the crop; in the Scotch and Styrian rules that when the corn-spirit is conceived as the Maiden the last corn shall be cut by a young maiden, but when it is conceived as the Corn-mother it shall be cut by an old woman; in the warning given to old women in Lorraine to save themselves when the Old Woman is being killed, that is, when the last corn is being threshed; and in the Tyrolese expectation that if the man who gives the last stroke at threshing is tall, the next year's corn will be tall also.
When Lear calls upon the heavens to avenge his cause, "for they are old like him", there is nothing extravagant or impious in this sublime identification of his age with theirs; for there is no other image which could do justice to the agonizing sense of his wrongs and his despair! Poetry is the high-wrought enthusiasm of fancy and feeling.
An observation can not be spoken of in language at all without declaring more than that one observation; without assimilating it to other phenomena already observed and classified. But this identification of an object—this recognition of it as possessing certain known characteristics—has never been confounded with Induction.
She is his one aim and object, poor little donkey! As for his identification of the body well, if the widow herself could find points of undisputed resemblance, why not he?
While an identification of the "young, thoughtless girl" has been impossible, M. Rava believes her to be "C. M.," the subject of a poem found at Dux, written in duplicate, in Italian and French, and headed "Giacomo Casanova, in love, to C. M."
Thirdly, that the nails of the right hand, with which he took his plunder, were bitten to the quick." "The identification becomes nearly perfect," I interrupted.
I should like to wait to point out these resemblances, such, for instance, as the tendency to personify natural objects, the identification of human beings with animals and trees, found so often in the stories, as well as many other things the belief in magic and the power of wise women.
The jewels had been identified by his father and by himself, although an identification was scarcely necessary as Harold had distinctly said: 'They are the Tracy diamonds, and the person who gave them, to me said so. But who was the person? That was the question puzzling the heads of all the Shannondale people as the morning wore on, and each went where he liked.
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