| E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. |
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The Moslems fancy that it is necessary, when a man is bow-strung, to relax the rope a little before death occurs to let the soul escape. The Greeks and Romans seemed to think that the soul made its escape with life out of the death-wound. | 1 |
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Soul. The Moslems say that the souls of the faithful assume the forms of snowwhite birds, and nestle under the throne of Allah until the resurrection. | 2 |
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Soul. Heracli’tus held the soul to be a spark of the soul to be a spark of the stellar essence: “scintilla stellaris essentiæ.” (Macrobius: Somnium Scipioris, lib. i. cap. 14.) | 3 |
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| “Vital spark of heavenly flame, |
| Quit, oh! quit this mortal frame.” | |
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Pope: The Dying Christian to his Soul. |
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Soul, in Egyptian hieroglyphics, is represented by several emblems, as a basket of fire, a heron, a hawk with a human face, and a ram. | 4 |
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