The Quarterly Review, Volume 177William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1893 |
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... moon and then set it free again . But the regular waning and waxing of the moon required a different explana- tion . As a rule , regular events appeal much more strongly for an intelligible explanation than casual accidents , and hence ...
... moon and then set it free again . But the regular waning and waxing of the moon required a different explana- tion . As a rule , regular events appeal much more strongly for an intelligible explanation than casual accidents , and hence ...
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... moon ; and though there seems no very definite reason why the moon should be con- nected with thunderstorms and rain , yet many things were believed , and are still believed , of the moon for which there is but slender foundation . The ...
... moon ; and though there seems no very definite reason why the moon should be con- nected with thunderstorms and rain , yet many things were believed , and are still believed , of the moon for which there is but slender foundation . The ...
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... moon , is repre- sented in other hymns as actually drinking the Soma , and thus gathering strength , like Indra ... moon . ' We can understand now that this was only another attempt to explain the waning of the moon . We saw before how ...
... moon , is repre- sented in other hymns as actually drinking the Soma , and thus gathering strength , like Indra ... moon . ' We can understand now that this was only another attempt to explain the waning of the moon . We saw before how ...
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