A Abbott on effect of Georgia anti-Cherokee laws 118 Abraham , murder of 65 , 66 Acculturation , study of xxi–xxv Acknowledgments 12 – 13 Acolapissa , tribe of Choctaw confederacy 500 Acoma , work at xiii Activities , discussion of lxiv–lxv Adair, James , on Cherokee dialects 16 Adair, James on Cherokee intratribal friction 496 Adair, James on Cherokee lack of conservatism 229 Adair, James on Cherokee population 34 Adair, James on Cherokee relations with Creeks 384 Adair, James on Cherokee sacred ark 503 Adair, James on Cherokee snake myths 457 , 459 – 460 , 461 Adair, James on Cherokee sufferings from smallpox 36 Adair, James on Cherokee thunder myths 441 Adair, James on Cherokee war of 1759–61 41 Adair, James on Christian Priber’s work 37 Adair, James on Creek myths 475 Adair, James on Creeks 499 Adair, James on decay of Cherokee ritual and traditions 20 Adair, James on effects of Cherokee war (1760–61) 45 Adair, James on gatayûstĭ game 434 Adair, James on Herbert’s spring 404 Adair, James on horses and swine among Cherokee 82 , 213 Adair, James on Indian beliefs concerning birds 453 – 454 Adair, James on Indian beliefs concerning food 472 Adair, James on Indian beliefs concerning wolf 448 Adair, James on Indian conduct during eclipse 441 Adair, James on Indian custom of removing deers’ hamstrings 447 Adair, James on Indian marriage customs 482 Adair, James on Iroquois wars 357 – 358 , 491 Adair, James on name Cherokee 16 Adair, James on peace towns 207 , 208 Adair, James on sacred fire 503 Adair, James on scratching ceremony 476 Adair, James on Shawano wars 371 Adair, James on Taskigi among Creeks 389 Adair, James on tlă′nuwă 466 Adair, James on welcome ceremony 493 Adder , myths concerning 297 , 436 Adoption among eastern tribes 493 Advocate, Cherokee , see Cherokee Advocate .
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

See Pieces Justificatives, of Narratives, Commentaries, &c. in Buzot, Louvet, Meillan: Documens Complementaires, in Hist.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The misunderstandings are therefore the following:— (1) The immortality of the individual; (2) The assumed existence of another world; (3) The absurd notion of punishment and expiation in the heart of the interpretation of existence; (4) The profanation of the divine nature of man, instead of its accentuation, and the construction of a very profound chasm, which can only be crossed by the help of a miracle or by means of the most thorough self-contempt; (5) The whole world of corrupted imagination and morbid passion, instead of a simple and loving life of action, instead of Buddhistic happiness attainable on earth; (6) An ecclesiastical order with a priesthood, theology, cults, and sacraments; in short, everything that Jesus of Nazareth combated ; (7) The miraculous in everything and everybody, superstition too: while precisely the trait which distinguished Judaism and primitive Christianity was their repugnance to miracles and their relative rationalism.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The strange figures of poetic drama and ballad are made by the imagination of others, but out of his own imagination entirely did Jesus of Nazareth create himself.
— from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

At last she gave him instructions to draw up the deed and returned home with her head in a whirl, just as if she had drunk four jugs of new cider.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Hence the concept of a Deity, which would be adequate for our teleological judging of nature, can never be derived from mere theoretical principles of the use of Reason (on which Physico- 367 theology alone is based).
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Haste then, for ever quit these fatal fields, Haste to the joys our native country yields; Spread all your canvas, all your oars employ, Nor hope the fall of heaven-defended Troy.
— from The Iliad by Homer

"And I go into the business with you—very pleasant we are over it; and I confirm you in your well-founded fears that you will get yourself into a most precious line if you don't come out with that there will," said Mr. Bucket emphatically; "and accordingly you arrange with me that it shall be delivered up to this present Mr. Jarndyce, on no conditions.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The familiar companions of Jesus of Nazareth conversed with their friend and countryman, who, in all the actions of rational and animal life, appeared of the same species with themselves.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

3 The familiar companions of Jesus of Nazareth conversed with their friend and countryman, who, in all the actions of rational and animal life, appeared of the same species with themselves.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Like Puss-in-Boots after the nuptials of his master, Jackeymo only now caught minnows and sticklebacks for his own amusement.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 425, March, 1851 by Various

282 “Gunpowder ... among the Chinese,” in Journal of North China Branch of Roy.
— from Gunpowder and Ammunition, Their Origin and Progress by H. W. L. (Henry William Lovett) Hime

He was a judge of nowt [cattle], and a connoisseur of black puddings, which he considered to require some Isle of Man brandy to bring out their own proper flavour.
— from The Lilac Sunbonnet: A Love Story by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Spain, as we have seen, was then endeavouring to reserve to herself in the western hemisphere an entire new world; and this at a time when the great northern maritime powers, France, England and Holland, were in the full tide of economic development, restless with new thoughts, hopes and ambitions, and keenly jealous of new commercial and industrial outlets.
— from The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by Clarence Henry Haring

Two famous pieces from the Upaniṣad -literature are also offered: the story of how Jājñavalkya overcame nine contestants in debate at King Janaka's court and won the prize consisting of one thousand cows with gold-tipped horns, p. 247, from the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Up.
— from The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany by Arthur F. J. Remy

Juliet of Narbona, cured the King of France of a daungerous Fistula, in recompence whereof, she requested to enjoy as her husband in marriage, Bertrand the Count of Roussillion.
— from The Decameron (Day 1 to Day 5) Containing an hundred pleasant Novels by Giovanni Boccaccio

This style of drama was amusingly parodied by J. L. Heiberg in his witty satirical play, Julespög og Nytaarslöjer ("Christmas Fun and New Year's Drollery").
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 2. The Romantic School in Germany by Georg Brandes

"Ladies and gentlemen," began the governor of North Carolina, laying a hand upon the table, and with the other seizing the lapel of his rough, brown coat—a pose made familiar by all his photographs—"the jails of North Carolina are more uncomfortable than I had believed them to be, and I have taken a slight cold which compels me to be briefer than this interesting occasion demands.
— from The Little Brown Jug at Kildare by Meredith Nicholson