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The Continental German version in the Thidreks Saga is late, and, like that in the Edda, contaminated with the Sigurd story, with which it had originally nothing to do. This cycle, at least in its present form, is peculiar to the Scandinavian North. All the above-named poems are contained in Codex Regius of the Elder Edda.
Cowperwood, regardless of his intrinsic merits, was originally counted one of their number, and he was put under the direction of Mr. Arthur Rivers, the regular floor man of Tighe & Company.
Why should Englishmen submit uncomplainingly when Milwaukee and Duluth arrogate to themselves the privilege of sneering at them which was conceded originally and willingly enough to Cannes?
The wise men say that man originally had a full suit of hair like other animals, and that he gradually got rid of it, as he became human. Whether this be true or not, the fact remains that he has none now; and consequently he must invent and manufacture something to take its place.
In any case it may be concluded that the cult in question, if it existed, was late, popular, and without marked influence on the Semitic religious development. Ishtar, originally a deity of fertility, became, through social growth, a patron of war and statecraft; but there is no indication that an attempt was ever made to combine these two characters in one figure.
If history were to repeat itself in this case, cart might in time become the generally used word, and carry in its turn be relegated to the realm of poetry. Words often come to have several meanings through being used to describe things which are connected in some way with the things for which they were originally used.
"What is that fine building on the hill?" asked Miss Cushman. "That," said Miss Mitchell, "was a boys' school, originally, but it is now used as a hotel, where they charge five dollars a day!" "Five dollars a day?" exclaimed Miss Cushman; "Jupiter Ammon!" "No," said Miss Stebbins, "Jupiter Mammon!" "Not at all," said Miss Mitchell, "Jupiter gammon!"
Jewdwine was a terror to all the second-hand booksellers in London and Oxford; he would waste so much of their good time in cheapening a book that it was hardly worth their while to sell it to him at double the price originally asked. The idea that he had paid five shillings for a book that he should have got for four and six would keep Jewdwine awake at night.
The ancient and shrunken town of Wareham is also near by, having had quite a military history, but being almost destroyed by fire in 1762, from which it never recovered. It has now but three churches out of the eight it originally possessed, and of these only one is in regular use. But the great memory of this part of the coast is connected with Corfe Castle.
Against the latter hypothesis all the arguments which Charpentier originally brought forward in opposition to the first popular doctrine of a grand debacle or sudden flood rushing down from the Alps to the Jura might be revived.
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