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Beautiful as a statue amidst his extraordinary host rode the Chief, mounted on a white horse, which he sat like a centaur. 'He was quite a show, everyone stopping to look at him, adds the sculptor Gibson, to whom these details are owed.
And this youth was really Jason, the son of his brother Æson, from whom he had taken the kingdom. Fearing that he would kill the child, Æson had sent it away to the cave of the Centaur Chiron, by whom Jason had been bred up, and had now come to seek his fortune.
Secondly, when the mind supposes any idea it has in itself to be CONFORMABLE to some REAL EXISTENCE. Thus the two ideas of a man and a centaur, supposed to be the ideas of real substances, are the one true and the other false; the one having a conformity to what has really existed, the other not.
At the Dog's tail Argo moves on, and moving seems to sail; O'er her the Ram and Fishes have their place; The illustrious vessel touches, in her pace, The river's banks; which you may see winding and extending itself to a great length. The Fetters at the Fishes' tails are hung. By Nepa's head behold the Altar stand, Which by the breath of southern winds is fann'd; near which the Centaur
By the aid of Chiron the Centaur, Peleus succeeded in winning the goddess for his bride and their son was the renowned Achilles. In our chapter on the Trojan war it will appear that Thetis was a faithful mother to him, aiding him in all difficulties, and watching over his interests from the first to the last.
A little modesty, a short sinking of private differences; and then we should all be free and equal gentlemen of fortune, and I would be your Captain! ``Who? you? you would make a pretty Captain! Better than you, you scurvy, skulking, little galley-slave! ``Galley-slave yourself, and be Pull together, boys, and lie low! Here's the Master coming with his whip! The Lost Centaur
"Men's hands are by ordinary soiled in climbing," quoth the Centaur. "And 'Jurgen, this emperor says to me, not many months ago, as he sat in his palace, crowned and dreary and trying to cheat me out of my fair profit on some emeralds, 'Jurgen, I cannot sleep of nights, because of that fool Alexius, who comes into my room with staring eyes and the bowstring still about his neck.
He laughed to hear her say, in answer to a question as to her present feelings: 'I feel that I am carried away by a centaur! The comparison had been used or implied to him before. 'No! said he, responding to a host of memories, to shake them off, 'no more of the quadruped man! You tempt him may I tell you that?
J. S. Mill seems to suppose that association can explain the imagination of a centaur or a Falstaff, but cannot explain the belief in a horse or Lafayette.
"But friend Pholus," said Hercules pressingly, "I would I had a little for my stomach's sake." Now the centaur had a kind heart as we have said, and he rejoiced that Hercules had come, and to give the hero his desires he opened the jar.
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