 | Henry Phillips - 1867 - 56 pages
...the sun, and say that the Sun sinks into her mother's arms at night. (Grimm's Deutsche Myt/iologie.) The thought that the Sun was of the female sex may...bound to obey a higher will, but sure to rise like HeYakles to a higher glory at the end of their labors. It seems to us childish and extravagant to read... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1867 - 394 pages
...the regularity with which the sun and the other stars perform their daily labour, they still thought of free beings kept in temporary servitude, chained...like Herakles, to a higher glory at the end of their labours. It seems to us childish when we read in the Veda such expressions as, 'Will the Sun rise?'... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1868 - 476 pages
...the regularity with which the sun and the other stars perform their daily labour, they still thought of free beings kept in temporary servitude, chained for a time, and bound to obey7 a higher will, but sure to rise, like Herakles, to a higher glory at the end of their labours.... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1869 - 432 pages
...the regularity with which the sun and the other stars perform their daily labor, they still thought of free beings kept in temporary servitude, chained...at the end of their labors. It seems to us childish when we read in the Veda such expressions as, " Will the Sun rise ? " " Will our old friend, the Dawn,... | |
 | 1871 - 660 pages
...the regularity with'which the sun and the other stars perform their daily labor they still thought of free beings kept in temporary servitude, chained...Herakles, to a higher glory at the end of their labors." (P. 96.) But we must never forget what we have once said in the words of Mliller himself, and what... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1881 - 640 pages
...the regularity with which the sun and the other stars perform their daily labour, they still thought of free beings kept in temporary servitude, chained...like Herakles, to a higher glory at the end of their labours. It seems to us childish when we read in the Veda such expressions as, ' Will the Sun rise... | |
 | George William Cox - 1882 - 694 pages
...the regularity with which the sun and the other stars perform their daily labour, they still thought of free beings kept in temporary servitude, chained...like Herakles, to a higher glory at the end of their labours." — Max Miiller, " Comparative Mythology," Chip!, iSrv., ii. 96. * In his Lectures on Langiuige,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 548 pages
...the regularity with which the sun and the other stars performed their daily labor, they still thought of free beings kept in temporary servitude, chained...Herakles, to a higher glory at the end of their labors. . . . Sunrise was the revelation of nature, awakening in the human mind that feeling of dependence,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 428 pages
...the regularity with which the sun and the other stars performed their daily labor, they still thought of free beings kept in temporary servitude, chained...Herakles, to a higher glory at the end of their labors. . . . Sunrise was the revelation of nature, awakening in the human mind that feeling of dependence,... | |
 | Burton Feldman, Robert D. Richardson - 2000 - 596 pages
...of free heings kept in temporary servitude, chained for a time, and hound to ohey a higher will, hut sure to rise, like Herakles, to a higher glory at the end of their lahours. It seems to us childish when we read in the Veda such expressions as, 'Will the Sun rise?'... | |
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... day! That Titanic assurance with which we say, the sun must rise, was unknown to the early worshippers of nature, or if they also began to feel the regularity with which the sun and the other stars perform their daily... 
