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The man whose first judgment concerning an elaborate picture of roses was turned to surprise and wonder when told the price, which in time led to respect and then purchase, may find parallels in most of the collections of Philistia. “The value of a picture is what some one will pay for it” is a maxim of the creators of picture values and upon it the “picture business” has its working basis.
"No; Perkins is attending to that," said Henderson, rather indifferently, like a man awakened out of a pleasant dream. "Don't seem to need much fixing. The public are fond of parallels." Hollowell laughed. "I guess that's so till they get 'em." "Or don't get them," Henderson added. And then both laughed. "It looks as if it would go through this time. Bemis says the C. D.'s badly scared.
To the south, however, of the belt of ice which encircles the globe, between the parallels of 50° and 70° S., and in the waters comprised between that belt and the highest latitude ever attained by man, this vegetation is very conspicuous, from the contrast between its colour and the white snow and ice in which it is imbedded.
And so I might go on, finding many such similarities of circumstances, but my parallel, like most parallels, must break down at last. Thus it mattered little to England whether or no she let the Transvaal go, but to let Ireland go would be more than even Mr. Gladstone dare attempt. Somehow, if you follow these things far enough, you always come to vulgar first principles.
I have listened to the music of thy shores the call of the cacawee, the laugh of the wa-wa goose, and the trumpet-note of the great northern swan. Yes, mighty river! Even in that far northern land, thy wilderness home, have I worshipped thee! Onward through many parallels of latitude through many degrees of the thermal line!
They were big, quiet, expectant fellows, with less sophistication and polemic than their American counterparts, less stolid aggressiveness than their parallels in England, if they have parallels there.
This race of warmen and horsemen surprisingly resembles the Somal, who hold the same parallels of latitude in Eastern Africa, as to small heads, semi-Caucasian features, Asiatic above the nose-tip and African below; tall lithe figures, high shoulders, and long limbs, especially the forearm. There is the usual Negro-land variety in the picturesque toilette; no two men are habited alike.
In particular, I must have parallels of actors and actresses. I must be told if any building in Paris is at all comparable to St. Paul's, which, contrary to the usual mode of that part of our nature called admiration, I have looked up to with unfading wonder every morning at ten o'clock, ever since it has lain in my way to business.
*Contigo pan y cebolla*: the Spanish version for 'love in a cottage' has many parallels. Cf. for example two such widely different sources as Prov. xv, 17: "Better a dinner of herbs where love is...," and Omar Khayyam's "A book of verses" etc.
The alternative may perhaps have to be faced that the Hebrew parallels to Sumerian and Babylonian traditions are here confined to chronological structure and general contents, and do not extend to Hebrew renderings of Babylonian names. It may be added that such correspondence between personal names in different languages is not very significant by itself.
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