This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...a new name, which is only the Slavonic name, descriptive of his character as a codifier of laws, turned into Latin. Ovid has never been described as a Slavonian, though he is known to have passed a portion of his life at Tomi, in what is now called Bulgaria, and to have written a poem (unhappily lost) in the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...a new name, which is only the Slavonic name, descriptive of his character as a codifier of laws, turned into Latin. Ovid has never been described as a Slavonian, though he is known to have passed a portion of his life at Tomi, in what is now called Bulgaria, and to have written a poem (unhappily lost) in the language of the natives--the so-called " Sarmatian." As from the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step, so the interval which separates such symbolism as Mi9kievicz detected in proper names from the paltriest kind of punning is by no means great. John Huss--otherwise, in Bohemian, John Gus, or goose--played upon his own name at the moment of death, saying that, "Though this goose might be burned, yet from its ashes would arise a bird that would carry the truth to the uttermost ends of the world." But Huss spoke Bohemian amongst Bohemians; and to accept the Nebuchadnezzar story, it would be necessary to believe that " Ne-bog-odin-tzar " was a phrase intelligible to the Babylonians; in other words, that the Babylonians were a Slavonic race. As all great personages who could be conveniently claimed were shown to be Slavonian, so were tribes and entire countries, with whatever eminent men they happened to have produced. Venice, or Venetia, was Slavonian; the district around Venice having been colonised by the Venetes, or Wends. One of the earliest exponents of Panslavonianism showed by a curious process of reasoning, based little, if at all, on facts, that Shakespeare was a Slavonian; or that he was probably, or at least possibly, of Slavonian origin. The Slavonian tribe of the Veletes migrated to England at some pre-historic period, there settled, and gave their name to Wiltshire. Shakespeare's ancestors might have been born in...
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