 | 1837 - 860 pàgines
...indisputably indigenous, and, from its perennial verdure,* its longevity, and the durability of the wood, at once an emblem and a specimen of immortality,...substitute for the cypress, to deck the graves of the deail, and for other sacred purposes.-)- History and tradition concur in telling us that it was allowed... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1838 - 680 pàgines
...longevity, and the durability of its wood, at once an emblem and a specimen of immortality, its branches would be employed by our pagan ancestors, on their...would be retained and engrafted on Christianity on it« first introduction. It would indeed be surprising, if one so innocent and so congenial to their... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1838 - 680 pàgines
...longevity, and the durability of its wood, at once an emblem and a specimen of immortality, its branches would be employed by our pagan ancestors, on their...these, with many other customs of heathen origin, would IK; retained and engrafted on Christianity on its first introduction. It would indeed be surprising,... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1838 - 686 pàgines
...longevity, and the durability of its wood, at once an emblem and a specimen of immortality, its branches would be employed by our pagan ancestors, on their...with matters not essential, these, with many other cu&toms of heathen origin, would be retained and engrafted on Christianity on its first introduction.... | |
 | Prideaux John Selby - 1842 - 572 pàgines
...longevity, and the durability of its wood, at once an emblem and a specimen of immortality, its branches would be employed by our pagan ancestors, on their...engrafted on Christianity on its first introduction." Such, indeed, we find to be the case in regard to other existing customs whose origin is generally... | |
 | 1842 - 530 pàgines
...longevity, and the durability of its wood, at once an emblem and » specimen of immortality, its branches would be employed by our pagan ancestors, on their...graves of the dead, and for other sacred purposes.' The yew used to be frequently planted in gardens as an ornament, on account of the facility with which... | |
 | 1842 - 554 pàgines
...longevity, and the durability of its wood, at once an emblem and a specimen of immortality, its branches would be employed by our pagan ancestors, on their...graves of the dead, and for other sacred purposes.' The yew used to be frequently planted in gardens as an ornament, on account of the facility with which... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 548 pàgines
...example of immortality, its branches would be employed by our Pagan ancestors, on their first arrival, as the best substitute for the Cypress, to deck the...graves of the dead, and for other sacred purposes ; and the innocent custom, like others of heathen origin, would naturally be retained and engrafted... | |
 | 1911 - 588 pàgines
...longevity, and the durability of its wood, at once an emblem and a specimen of immortality, its branches would be • employed by our pagan ancestors, on their...would be retained and ' engrafted on Christianity on ite first introduction." Briefly, then, it may be said that the yew in primitive times, being common... | |
 | 1850 - 492 pàgines
...would," as Mr. Bowman observes in a paper in " Loudon's Magazine," " have seemed to our pagan ancestors the best substitute for the cypress to deck the graves of the dead, and for other sacred purposes." In later times we know that the yew tree was consecrated by the priest ; and Burnct mentions, that... | |
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... it seems most natural and simple to believe that, being indisputably indigenous, and being, from its perennial verdure, its longevity, and the durability of its wood, at once an emblem and a specimen of immortality, its branches would be employed... 
