They make shift instead with a bewildering agglomeration of superstitions pieced together into an amazing patchwork.
Syrian Deacon, Werda--a man of some education, who is generally superior to the superstitions of his race.
Every nation has, of course, its own superstitionsabout the mystery of birth, as exemplified in the case of our own ancestors by the belief in "the changeling.
That strange observances, beliefs, and superstitionsshould linger in this corner of Asia, even to a greater extent than in other parts, is natural enough.
Such is the story told to us by the Patriarch of the Nestorian Church; a gentleman who is sufficiently educated to smile at the superstitions of his fathers--at least during the day, and in European company.
Still his superstitions are the natural reaction of a singularly earnest and pure nature from the frivolity and corruption which, when kneaded well up together with a slice of sarcasm, Paris calls philosophy.
Theoretically I am opposed to the existing superstitions that encumber the very simple principle by which may be united two persons so long as they desire the union, and separated so soon as the union becomes distasteful to either.
They cling to old legends and superstitions with great fondness; the wild country abounds with wonder-stories.
But he was influenced by the superstitionsof the times in which he lived.
This ought to have been the death of Mahdism as well, but superstitions die hard in that land of fanatics.
Then again, the Russian peasants are rooted in customs and superstitions which cling about the Czar with strange tenacity and are proof against the reasoning of strangers.
Illustration] In the Second Part the author reviews the subject of superstitionsattaching to dreams, and defines their employment as a means of divination, from the earliest records down to a recent period.
It was useless attempting to unsettle the superstitions of this primitive pair.
In such places, the legends and superstitions of the forefathers of Lancashire are cherished with a tenacity which would hardly be credible to the inhabitants of great cities in these days.
My visit to Grislehurst had been all the more interesting that I had no thought of meeting with such a living evidence of the lingering superstitions of Lancashire there.
The place is now associated with the superstitions of the district; and on that account, as well as on account of its natural attractions, it has been the theme of more than one notable pen.
They are highly interesting in themselves, but more so as the basis of most of the popular superstitions of England, when they were introduced during the incursions and dominion of the Danes and Norwegians.
I have thrown the old traditions and superstitions to the winds.
You, free men, are more bound by superstitions than we who profess to be servants to a kindly mistress.
The movement was popular in England, and nearly all, clergy and people, were glad to see the superstitions and corruptions which had crept into the Church swept away by Archbishop Cranmer and his colleagues.
This was allowed in the primitive Church, and is now by the Scottish Episcopal Church; but the superstitions which grew up around the custom seemed to make the present rule necessary.
Possibly these Superstitions are True, but We have no Evidence--We Believe in the Natural--Science is the Real Redeemer.
He gave his thoughts about religion--about the blessed Scriptures, about the superstitions of his time.
And also to show to you that scarcely any man, however great, can free himself of the superstitions of his time.
They scorned the superstitions of the past not only, but they scorned the past; for the past to them was only wrong, imposition and outrage.
The spread of superstitions and old wives' tales and their long lingering in the minds even of intelligent people is testimony that men tend mentally as well as physically to herd together.
Many superstitions probably had their origin in such chance observations, and belief in them is strengthened by some accidental confirmation.
Of all the many and weird superstitions that exist in the British Army of to-day, the most popular has to do with the jar that contains the ration of rum.
Naturally superstitions prevailed at an epoch marked by a total lack of scientific spirit.
With the secularization of their names, the Jews adopted, at least partially, the customs and, naturally, also the superstitions of their countrymen.
Many old superstitions are connected with the hazel.
There are many old superstitions in connection with the ash, and there is a midland counties saying that if there are no keys on the ash, within a twelvemonth there will be no king.
It spread thence over the east and the west, and when it reached our part of the world, it grafted itself, as I have remarked in a former chapter, on the existing popular superstitions of Teutonic paganism.
My Lords, you have that true image of the primitive Church in its ancient form, in its ancient ordinances, purified from the superstitions and the vices which a long succession of ages will bring upon the best institutions.
The phenomena which bewilder, the prejudices which debase, the superstitions which enslave, vanish before education.
The Stuarts had drawn first blood successfully, and the superstitions saw in the circumstance yet another augury of success.
The Arabs still retain our mediaeval superstitions concerning precious stones, and of these fancies I will quote a few.
Not we who preach freedom and progress for all men; but those who try to bind the world with chains of dogma, and to burden it, in God's name, with all the foul superstitions of its ignorant past.
He never sings more loftily, or with stronger passion, or with finer thought, than when he arraigns and denounces priestcraft and its superstitions before the bar of humanity and truth.
He had, therefore, an obvious interest in inculcating the superstitions notion that birth confers rights anterior to law, and unalterable by law.
The followers of Ida and Cerdic, on the other hand, brought to their settlements in Britain all the superstitions of the Elbe.
The assumption that some inherent "Teutonic" faculty for self-government shaped the process is one of the superstitions of racial and national vanity.
It delays us greatly, and it preys upon the superstitions of the warriors.
His own mind, like those of the Indians, had become attuned to the superstitions and fears bred of ignorance and the dark.
This indeed seemed to many the only solution that, whilst it fell in with the prejudices and superstitions of the age, was of a nature to account for that tremendous effect which the discovery had produced upon the Landgrave.
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