Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 5: Miscellaneous Later EssaysMüller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
Religion
Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 5: Miscellaneous Later Essays
Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
Comparative linguistics; Folklore; Literature -- History and criticism; Mythology; Religions
Spelling, reform of, 133 sq., 135 sq.;
favorite subject with Roman scholars, 140.
_Stahl_, quoted, 69.
_Sueton_, quoted, 116.
Sukhavati-vyûha, a title of a Buddhist Sutra, 214;
list of MSS. of, now extant, 216 sq.;
translation of, 220 sq.
Sukhavati, or Paradise, described, 223 sq.
Sun, sign or name for, 75 sq., 78.
Sunrise, feelings at the, 74.
_Swift_, Dean, quoted, 134.
Table of the names of the days of the week in—
Anglo-Saxon, 118.
English, 118.
French, 118.
German, 119.
-- Middle-High, 119.
-- Old-High, 119.
Latin, 118.
Old Norse, 118.
Sanskrit, 118.
Table of the names of the Planets, 118, 119.
_Tacitus_, quoted, 121.
Teachers to be natural examiners, 43.
Testament, the Old, accounts of, found in the literature of the Brahmans,
100, 106.
-- Old and New, found in the Vedas., 123;
borrowed from Brahmans and Buddhists, 101 sq.
Theology, on false analogies in comparative, 98 sq.
_Thirlwall_, Bishop, quoted, 143.
Thought and language inseparable, 67.
Thor, 120.
Thunar, 120.
Thursday, 120.
Tiu, 120.
_Tocqueville, De_, referred to, 12.
_Trench_, quoted, 169 sq.
_Tylor_, E. B., quoted, 70.
Uniformity, dangers of, 12 sq.
Universities, English and German, compared, 7 sq.;
differences between, 9 sq.;
guardians of freedom of thought, 28;
mediæval and modern, home of free thought, 51.
Vaksh, Sanskrit word for to grow, like the English to wax, 17.
Veneris dies, 120.
Vid, Sanskrit word for to know, like the English to wit, 17.
_Virgil_ quoted, 71.
_Vosisus_, S. J., quoted, 99.
Week, names of the seven days of the, received from the names of the
planets, 116.
Weeks and week-days, system of counting, first introduced in Egypt, 118.
_Wilford_, quoted, 106.
_Wilson_, quoted, 188.
Wodan, day of, 120, 121.
Wunsch or Wish, name of Wuotan, 121.
Wuotan, 120.
_Xenophanes_, on Homer and Hesiod, 57 sq.
Zeus Kronīon, meaning of, 80, 121.
Ziu, 121.
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