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What Boadicea did and and Samson, so have I. If they were heroes, so am I." "Well, upon my word!" cried the highly scandalized Carlyle, "what next! Boadicea was a er semi-legendary person, whom we may possibly admire at a distance. Personally, I do not profess to express an opinion. But Samson, I would remind you, is a Biblical character. Samson was mocked as an enemy.
He is still for us the great scholar and the strongly marked individuality, but he has gradually attained a kind of apotheosis, a kind of semi-legendary position, almost rivalling that of the great John Bull himself, as the embodiment of the essential features of the English character. We never think of the typical Englishman being like Shakespeare or Milton.
The development of human societies depends on a multitude of factors, such as race, geographic and economic conditions, war, etc., which we need neither enumerate nor study. At the beginning of civilizations we meet semi-historic, semi-legendary persons Manu, Zoroaster, Moses, Confucius, etc., who were inventors or reformers in the social and moral spheres.
Leaving the Near Eastern problem at this critical juncture to the inscrutable solution of the future, let us now turn to the great political problem of the Middle East the nationalist movement in India. Cited by Bérard, p. 19. Cited by Bérard, p. 20. The semi-legendary founder of the Ottoman Empire.
The long lists of early kings contain semi-legendary names, including those of mythical heroes. Towards the end of the twenty-fifth century, however, before the Christian era, a dynasty arose of which all the members come within the range of history. The first of these kings, Sumuabim, has left us some contracts bearing the dates of one or other of the fifteen years of his reign.
Like a lofty peak rising above the mists which cover the tops of the lower-lying mountains, the figure of Servius Tullius towers above the semi-legendary Tarquins on either side of him.
But in both countries there were would-be monarchs waiting in the background, ready to promote any change whereby they might profit Louis Napoleon, and the Kings of Sardinia, Charles Albert first, and after his defeat by the Austrians and his abdication, the semi-heroic, semi-legendary Victor Emmanuel.
Without reckoning earlier and semi-legendary honours, it may here be recorded that it is distinguished in the elder branch by one baronetcy dating from 1611, and by a second in the younger dating from 1806. In the latter year the poet's grandfather received this honour through the influence of his friend the Duke of Norfolk. Mr.
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