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42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "AND now that's settled, as far as we can settle it now, said Tozer, as they left the magistrate's office, where John Brown, the famous Carlingford solicitor, had accompanied them,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will go with you first, said Vincent, who contemplated... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't pay no attention to her, Mr. Vincent; she's a deal too feelin'. She oughtn't to be minded, and then she'll learn better, said Mrs. Tozer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sure it wasn't no wish of ours as you should ever stop away. If we had been your own re... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Tozer has been my real friend indeed, and a most honest and thorough one, said Vincent."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I don't think I have any other in Salem so sure and steady, added the minister, after a little pause, half gratefully, half in bitterness. T... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's me as is to blame, said the worthy deacon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If it hadn't have been as the pastor wouldn't pass the door without coming in, I'd not have had him here to-day; and if you women would think, you'd see. We're stanch--and Mr. Vincent ain'... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am so glad you have come, said Lady Western."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sure you must have hated me, and everything that recalled my name; but it was impossible for any one to be more grieved than I was, Mr. Vincent. Now, will you tell me about Rachel? She... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You! she cried, with a shrill tone of terror and confusion in her voice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did not look for you!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You were going to escape, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you forget yo... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We agreed that I was to stay with Alice, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You forget I am staying with Alice: she--she keeps me safe, you know. Ah! people change so; I am sometimes--half afraid--of Alice, Mr. Vincent. My child is like her--my child--she did n... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It smokes more than ever,"
}
] |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You women are incomprehensible, said the young man, with an irritation he could not subdue--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, my dear, the people of the house don't understand it, said Mrs. Vincent."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh Arthur, it is oft... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh Arthur, consider how kind he has been! Your dear father would never have used such an expression--but you have my quick temper, said the widow, with a little sigh. She shook hands very cordially with the good butterman when he made his appearance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sure so warm a friend as Mr. Tozer can never trouble any of my family at any time, said the widow, with a little effusion."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know too well how rare a thing real kindness is--and I am very glad you have come just now while I can be ... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me give you another cup of tea, she said, as the butterman paused in the supernumerary meal which that excellent man was making;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am so glad you happened to come this evening when I am taking a little leisure. I hope the congregati... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, sir, if it come to be a question of that, said the mollified deacon;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "cried Tozer, in sudden excitement."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It ain't that, Mr. Vincent; it's for your good I'm a-speaking up and letting you ... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Arthur, my dear boy! did you hear Susan call me?--hark! I fancied I heard her voice. Oh, Arthur dear, go and see, I am too weak to run myself. Say I am coming directly--hark! do you think it is Susan? Oh, Arthur, go and see!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Tozer, ... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope, sir, as you won't think there's anything but an anxious feelin' in the flock to do you justice as our pastor, said Tozer, with a certain solemnity,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "added the good butterman, in a conciliatory tone;"
},
{
"from": "human",... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Even Mrs. Pigeon owned to herself a certain respect for the foe who did not humble himself, but withdrew with dignity into the intrenchments of his own position. It was fine; but it was not the thing for Salem. Mrs. Brown had a tea-party on the Thursday, to which the pastor was ... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pa has some business people with him in the parlour,"
}
] |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go down and let your pa know as Mr. Vincent's here, said Mrs. Tozer, after this uncomfortable séance had lasted half an hour;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "added the good woman, growing more and more civil as she came to her wits' end; for had not Pigeon and Brown b... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's three words of an intimation as I'd like to give--nothing of no importance; a meeting of the flock as some of us would like to call, if it's quite agreeable--nothing as you need mind, Mr. Vincent. We wouldn't go for to occupy your time, sir, attending of it. There wasn't no... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope, sir, as you don't think what's past and gone has made no difference on me, said that tearful woman in Mrs. Vincent's hearing;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When the widow asked,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What doings? Arthur only smiled and... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My beloved brethren"
}
] |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Tufton's 'it it, said a malcontent near Mrs. Vincent;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He was always too high for my fancy, said another."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It ain't the thing for a pastor to be ... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, ladies and gentlemen! them's my sentiments! we don't know when we're well off! and if we don't mind, we'll find out how matters really is when we've been and disgusted the pastor, and drove him to throw it all up. Such a thing ain't uncommon; many and many's the one in our ... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But it ain't to be, said Tozer, looking round him with a tragic frown, and shaking his head slowly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Them as is always a-finding fault, and always a-setting up to dictate, has set their faces again' all that. It's the way of some folks i... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "YOU are not able to walk so fast, said Mrs. Hilyard, coming up to the widow as she crossed over to the darker side of Grove Street, just where the house of the Miss Hemmings turned its lighted staircase-window to the street;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "she continu... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your daughter is ill? said Mrs. Hilyard;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "she said, touching the widow's arm suddenly with her hand, and suppressing painfully a shrill tone of anguish in her voice which would break through,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, your son would know if he were here; he has taken my parole and trusted me, said the strange woman;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "said Mrs. Vincent's strange companion, with bitterness."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A dwarfed creature, or deforme... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I left them in a safe place. I came home to fall into your son's hands. He might have been sure, had it come to that, that no one should have suffered for me said Mrs. Hilyard, with again a tone of bitterness."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What was my life worth, co... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nowhere! said Mrs. Hilyard; then, with a gleam out of her eyes which took the place of a smile,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do not be sorry for me; I want no friends--nobody could share my burden with me. I am going back--home--to Alice. Tell Mr. Vincent; I think ... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Arthur, no one saw me, she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I had my veil down all the time. How could I help going when I knew of it? I did not tell you--I did not mean you to know; but it was impossible to stay away, cried the widow, perceiving her son's im... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Arthur dear, hush! no one saw me at the meeting. I had my veil down, and spoke to nobody, said the widow:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "said Mrs. Vincent, with a little effort,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs. Hilyard! cried the minister, suddenly r... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will not disturb you any longer, my dear boy. Good-night, said Mrs. Vincent. She went away, followed by the discomfited landlady, who was overwhelmed, and did not know what to make of it. The widow could not but improve such an opportunity."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"va... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The worst is that she is dying before our eyes, and that she might be saved, he said, leading the poor mother to the other end of the room."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All her heart and soul are concentrated upon that time when she was away from you; unless we can... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And then she left us, Mr. Vincent, said the afflicted governess, as the minister, in grievous impatience, kept pacing up and down the room thus occupied and taken possession of--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "said Miss Smith, apologetically,"
},
{
"from": "h... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To let her know--but she must not come here to-night, was the widow's message, who was just then having the room darkened, and everything arranged for the night, if perhaps her child might sleep. This message delivered the minister; it... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't deny as I am intoxicated-like, said the excellent deacon;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am glad you were pleased, said Vincent, with an effort;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pleased! I'll tell you one thing as I was sorry for, sir, said Toze... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a meeting as will tell in the connection, said Tozer, with unconscious foresight;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes,"
}
] |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And the meeting as was to be to-morrow night? said Tozer;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you--but I can't do either one or the other, said the Nonconformist."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I would not have asked the people to meet me if I had not ... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll not go and make no reflections, sir? said the troubled deacon;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you, Tozer, all the same, said Vincent, who, notwithstanding his preoccupation, saw the good butterman's anxiety, and appreciated it."
},
{
"from": "hum... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For it's as good as receiving of him again, and giving him the right hand of fellowship,"
}
] |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Her daughter--and his daughter--and she comes to take refuge with my child, said the widow, with a swelling heart. Mrs. Vincent did not know what secret it was that lay heavy on the soul of the desperate woman who had followed her last night from Grove Street, but somehow, with ... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs. Mildmay and Mr. Fordham"
}
] |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am going away, she said, holding out her hand to him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "she went on, with the old movement of her thin lips;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why must it be settled now? said Vincent. He had dropped her hand and turned away ... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will be answerable for Mrs. Mildmay, said Fordham, with an evident response on his side to that opposition and dislike. Then he paused, evidently perceiving the necessity of conciliation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Vincent, he continued, with some earnestne... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have seen Colonel Mildmay, continued Mr. Fordham, after a confused pause."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If it can be any atonement to you to know how much he regrets all that has happened, so far as your family is concerned--how fully he exonerates Miss Vincent, w... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The innocent have suffered already, said Vincent,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I offer to be answerable for her appearance, said Fordham, hastily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I undertake to produce her if need be. You know me. I am a--a relatio... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you hear her? he cried, suddenly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have had much to bear yourself; have pity on her. Let her off--leave her to God. She has been ill, and will die if you have no mercy. You who are a minister----"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will go away--I can do you no good--I should only lose my temper; and time presses,"
}
] |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Vincent, I keep my parole-- I am waiting your pleasure, she said, never removing her eyes from his face. It was at this moment that Mrs. Vincent, who had from the window of Susan's chamber seen the cab arrive and go away with some curiosity, came into the room. The widow wan... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Tozer--Mr. Tozer! this lady is--a--a friend of ours,"
}
] |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Tozer knows I have been one of the flock since ever Mr. Vincent came, said the strange woman."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have gone to all the meetings, and listened faithfully to the pastor every time he has preached; and would you judge me unworthy of reli... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I HOPE, sir, as I haven't said anything to give offence?--it was far from my meaning, said Tozer;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "said the good butterman;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am going out, said Vincent;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"valu... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have just been reading in the 'Gazette' the report of last night's meeting, said good Mrs. Tufton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Mr. Vincent, I was so glad--your dear mother herself, if she had been there, could not have been happier than I was. I hope she has... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-bye, my dear brother, said Mr. Tufton slowly, shaking the young minister's hand;"
}
] |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After we come back from the meeting you are to go in and sit with your sister for an hour, my dear boy, said his mother."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Till that was over, we knew your mind would be occupied, and Susan would like to see you. Oh, Arthur! it will make ... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Arthur, I had a great deal of conversation with Mrs. Mildmay; she told me--everything, said the widow, growing pale."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, my dear! when God leaves us alone to our own devices, what dreadful things a sinful creature may do! I said you wou... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No fine speeches, Arthur? My dear boy, I always like to hear you speak. I know you will say what you ought, said the widow, smiling, with a patient determination in her face. Then there was a pause."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perhaps you will give me a little ske... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Love one another,"
}
] |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My friends, you could have heard a pin drop in the crowded meeting; and when, a minute after, a leaf of holly detached itself and fluttered down from one of the gaslights, the whole row of people among whom it fell thrilled as if they had received a blow. Hush! perhaps it is not... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait before you applaud me, said the Nonconformist."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have said nothing that calls for applause. I have something more to tell you--more novel than what I have been saying. I am going to leave Carlingford. It was you who elected me, it ... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and a subscription instituted on the spot to present him with a testimonial. When all these things were concluded, nothing remained but to dismiss the assembly, which dispersed not without hopes of a satisfactory conclusion. The deacons remained for a final consultation, perplex... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What was Arthur to do now? his mother knew he was not to be persuaded. She smiled on Tozer next morning, ready to cry with vexation and anxiety as she was."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When my son has made up his mind, it will be vain for any one to try to move him... |
42044 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Arthur does not know me, she said, with a low, liquid voice, fuller than the common tones of women."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He forgets how long it is ago since we went away. He thinks you cannot have anything so big belonging to you, my little mother. But it i... |
301976 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ol' Chief's father, Glovotsky, him Russian,"
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "HISTORY OF PRESTON AND ITS ENVIRONS,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "MANUAL FOR PATRONS AND MEMBERS OF FRIENDLY SOCIETIES,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou has hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes."
},
{
... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which the"
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "English Writers, after noticing"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "truly says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The world about us is not simply mirrored, but _informed with a true soul_, by all the tongues that ... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Supplementary Notes to the History of Preston and its Environs, the early chapters of which, of course, would necessarily deal with what is termed the"
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In not a few instances I have been able to illustrate Dr. Kuhn's principles by examples of the folk-lore of Great Britain and Ireland, and would gladly have done so more copiously had matter for the purpose been more accessible. My efforts in that direction have made me painfull... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bronze age. The Cushites or Hamites of Ancient Arabia. Palæoliths, or ancient stone weapons. The Belisama (Ribble). Altars dedicated to Belatucadrus in the North of England. The Brigantes of the East, Spain, Ireland, and the North of England. The Aryan fire-god Agni, and his ret... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cattle disease. Fire superstitions. Burning wheels, etc. Sacrifices to the god Bel, and to the sun-god Fro or Fricco, in the North of England, etc. The feast of St. John the Baptist. Bone-fires. Dragons and serpents. Agni and the Midsummer demons. Ahi and Kuyava the destroyers o... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "eggs. Lancashire"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lifting of women on Easter Monday, and of men on the following day, a custom still practised in Lancashire. Cross-buns at Easter. Thor's hammer. Ancient marriage oaks. Mid-lent or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"val... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of witches of Aryan origin. The sieve, the cauldron, and the broom or besom. Witches spirits of the air. Hecate the Pandemonium Diana. Personifications of elemental strife. The brewing of storms. Aryan root of these superstitions. Hares disguised witches. Boadicea's hare. The go... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Boggart Ho' Clough, near Manchester. George Cheetham's boggart. The devil made a monk. The headless dog or woman at Preston. Raising the devil."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Raw head and bloody bones. Edwin Waugh's account of the Grislehurst boggart. The laying of b... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Modern references to this singular superstition. Ferns, luck-bringing plants. Said to have sprung from the lightning. St. John's-wort. German story of accidental invisibility. St John's eve. Fern seed, a love charm. Samuel Bamford's Lancashire story in"
},
{
"from": "gpt... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kitchen middens. Birds of evil omen. The owl. Shakspere's profound insight. Cuckoo superstitions. Transformation of cuckoos into sparrowhawks. The cuckoo the messenger of Thor. The wren hunted to death in the Isle of Man, Ireland, and some parts of France. A sacred bird in Engla... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "WISH"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "of the East. Aryan legend of its lightning origin. The mountain ash, the thorn, etc. Bishop Heber's anecdote respecting the Hindoo form of the superstition. African sacred trees. Recent instances of this superstition in England, Sc... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Language,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That division of grammar which is called etymology has been disgraced by such puerile trifling, and has been pursued with such an utter disregard to anything like scientific principles, as to create in the minds of many person... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Vedas. These works include a collection of hymns chanted or sung by the earlier south-eastern emigrants. It is believed this collection was formed about fourteen hundred years before the birth of Christ. According to ancient Hindoo authority, these hymns are coeval with creation... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Sanscrit tongue, in which the Vedas are written, is the sacred language of India; that is to say, the oldest language, the one which was spoken, as the Hindoos believe, by the gods themselves, when gods and men were in frequent fellowship with each other, from the time when ... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ancient Geography is the following passage:--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the Caucasus were found the Bruchi, the modern Burtani or Britani, a free tribe, rich in silver and gold."
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and that Ribel, now the name of the same river, in the Armenian tongue signifies Heaven. Mr. Thornber says"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Belisama means Queen of Heaven, and that the Romans paid divine honours to the Ribble under the title of Minerva Belisama. This c... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Essays, published in 1858, strongly advocates the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hyperborean theory,"
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stonehenge being evidently of Saxon origin, and in no way connected with its architects; the tale told by Nennius, about the murder of four hundred and sixty British nobles, through the treachery of Hengist, being a later romance invented to account for its Saxon name, Stanhengi... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stonehenge may then I think be regarded as a monument of the Bronze Age, though apparently it was not all erected at one time, the inner circle of small unwrought blue stones being probably older than the rest; as regards Abury, since the stones are all in their natural conditio... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Every king of Egypt considered himself a direct descendant of the sun, and over his name was 'Son of the Sun;' and as the sun was Phrè, so each king was called Phrè. As in the East at the present time, the Ottoman Emperor is termed by the Arabs, 'Sooltan ebn Sooltan'--Emperor so... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In what degree this high Persian faith (still existing in no ignoble type among the Parsees of India) was connected with the sun-worship of the gross Phœnician mythology, it is hard to conjecture. Perhaps there was no relation at all, and Baal (or Bel), the sun-god, never receiv... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pre-historic Nations, contends that the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bronze Age in Western Europe was introduced by a foreign people of the Cushite race, culture, and religion, and that for a very long period it was controlled and directed by their influence."
},... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The festival of Baal or Balder, celebrated on midsummer night in the upper part of Norway, reveals the Cushite race, for the midnight fire in presence of the midnight sun did not originate in that latitude. This festival of Baal was celebrated in the British Islands until recent... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some implements of the same type have been found in Spain, in Assyria, and in India. The latter have been described by Mr. Bruce Foote; they were found in the Madras and North Arcot districts, and are of quartzite, and in several cases were found by Messrs. Foote and King, _in s... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Several others dedicated to this deity have been found at Netherby, Castlesteads, Burgh-on-the-sands, Bankshead, and other places. In some instances, as in an altar found at Drumburgh, the deity is addressed by the epithet, DEO SANCTO BELATVCADRO. In some altars he is identified... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was supposed this was the deity of the Brigantes, but I am not aware that this country was ever called _Brigantia_, and it is not probable the conqueror would worship the deity of a vanquished tribe. I feel more inclined to think the name was taken from _Brigantium_, in Switz... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Curiosities of Indo-European Tradition ) says:--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Agni, the god of fire (Latin, _ignis_), has for retainers the Bhrigus and the Angirases. They are his priests on earth whilst they dwell there in mortal form; and after death they are his... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and thinks"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But he adds,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As the altars were dedicated apparently by people of widely different countries, they give us no assistance in appropriating this deity. The word has been supposed to ... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Races of Lancashire,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The name of this well known river has much perplexed antiquarian philologists. I can only venture to suggest that it may be compounded of rhe (active, fleet), and bala (a shooting out, a discharge, the outlet of... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Celtic Druids, speaks of Samhan or Saman as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He says:--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An annual solemnity was instituted to his honour, which is yet celebrated on the evening of the first day of November, which yet at this... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The sun, the moon, the sky or firmament, the dawn and evening twilight, the sea, lightning, clouds, rain, wind, frost, fire, &c., and their attendant active phenomena, contributed mainly to the construction of their mythological edifice. Indra was god of the firmament, the earli... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The identity of the heavenly soma with the cloud-water, and the close connection in which fire and soma are brought in various Aryan legends, prove that the drink of the gods was conceived to be a product of the storm. It appears also that the earthly soma was boiled or brewed b... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The cloud-maidens are known in the Vedas as _Apas_ (waters), and are styled brides of the gods (Dêvapatnis) and _Návyah_, _i.e._, navigators of the celestial sea. Nearly related to them, but less divine, are the _Apsarases_; damsels whose habitat is between the earth and the sun... |
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