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7. (1842) Heathen mythology

a world, imaginary indeed, but delightful, and whose ideal pleasures are so well fitted to compensate for the real troubles and miseries of the world in which we live.” […] As the world increased they deified heroes. […] Juno promised a kingdom, Minerva glory, and Venus the fairest woman in the world for a wife. […] “Ere I leave this world, oh! […] With this trident also, he shakes the world, and bids the earth to tremble.

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