 | 1870 - 624 pages
...sun, of the gentle or awful night, of the playful or furious wind ; and every word or phrase became the germ of a new story as soon as the mind lost its...hold on the original force of the name. Thus in the polyonymy which was the result of the earliest form of human thought, we have the germ of the great... | |
 | Edward Clodd - Dreams - 1885 - 308 pages
...consuming sun, of the gentle or awful night, of the playful or furious wind ; and every word or phrase become the germ of a new story as soon as the mind...hold on the original force of the name. Thus, in the polyonymy (by which term Sir George Cox means the giving of several names to one object), which was... | |
 | 1884 - 60 pages
...consuming sun, of the gentle or awful night, of the playful or furious wind ; and every word or phrase become the germ of a new story as soon as the mind...hold on the original force of the name. Thus, in the polyonymy " (by which term Sir Geo. Cox means the giving of several names to one object) "which was... | |
 | Frederick Starr - Civilization - 1895 - 322 pages
...sun, of the gentle or awful night, of the playful or furious wind ; and every word or phrase became the germ of a new story as soon as the mind lost its hold upon the original force of the name." The same simple story told of the sun among an ancient people,... | |
 | Frederick Starr - Anthropology - 1901 - 288 pages
...sun, of the gentle or awful night, of the playful or furious wind ; and every word or phrase became the germ of a new story as soon as the mind lost its hold upon the original force of the name." The same simple story told of the sun among an ancient people,... | |
 | Richard Mercer Dorson - Folklore - 1999 - 416 pages
...sun, of the gentle or awful night, of the playful or furious wind, and every word or phrase beeame the germ of a new story, as soon as the mind lost its hold on the original foree of the name.' Now the mind was always losing its hold on the original foree of the name, and... | |
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... lavished on the sights and objects which most impressed their imagination. A thousand phrases would be used to describe the action of a beneficent or consuming sun, of the gentle or awful night, of the playful or furious wind ; and every word or phrase... 