| Nathaniel Pearce - 1831 - 726 pągines
...sometimes happens that they cannot be cured at all. I have seen them in these fits dance with a brttly, or bottle of maize, upon their heads, without spilling...put themselves into the most extravagant postures. I could not have ventured to write this from hearsay, nor could I conceive it possible, until 1 was... | |
| 1832 - 618 pągines
...marketplace for many days before they can becured, and it sometimes happens that they cannot be cured at all. I have seen them in these fits dance with a bruly,...put themselves into the most extravagant postures." INVENTION OF THE TELESCOPE. IN the year 1609, the same year in which Kepler published his celebrated... | |
| Justus Friedrich Carl Hecker - 1835 - 502 pągines
...for many days before they can be cured, and it sometimes happens that they cannot be cured at all. I have seen them in these fits dance with a bruly,...put themselves into the most extravagant postures. " I could not have ventured to write this from hearsay, nor could I conceive it possible, until I was... | |
| 1837 - 860 pągines
...sometimes happens that they cannot be cured at all. I have seen them in these fits dance with a briily, or bottle of maize, upon their heads, without spilling...put themselves into the most extravagant postures. — Pearct's Life and Adventures in Abyssinia. THE HOUR OF DEATH. MINE be the hour of death, as evening... | |
| Justus Friedrich Carl Hecker - 1859 - 398 pągines
...sometimes happens that they cannot be cured at all. I have seen them in these fits dance with a britly, or bottle of maize, upon their heads, without spilling...put themselves into the most extravagant postures. " I could not have ventured to write this from hearsay, nor could I conceive it possible, until I was... | |
| 1885 - 72 pągines
...for many days before they can be cured, and it sometimes happens that they cannot be cured at all. I have seen them in these fits dance with a bruly,...put themselves into the most extravagant postures. " I could not have ventured to write this from hearsay, nor could I conceive it possible, until I was... | |
| Euripides - 1960 - 324 pągines
...exhibited by persons in ecstatic states cf. Nathaniel Pearce's account of ecstatic dancer* in Abyssinia : 'I have seen them in these fits dance with a bruly,...put themselves into the most extravagant postures.' If the text is sound, the 'bronze and iron1 are not weapons — the maenads' only weapon is the thyrsus,... | |
| Jules Verne - 1998 - 358 pągines
...exhibited by persons in ecstatic states cf. Nathaniel Pearce's account of ecstatic dancer* in Abyssinia : 'I have seen them in these fits dance with a bruly,...put themselves into the most extravagant postures.' If the text is sound, the 'bronze and iron' are not weapons — the maenads' only weapon is the thyrsus,... | |
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