East; and his doctrine of Nirvana supplied an antidote to the belief in a practically interminable series of metempsychoses current at the time. From Wordnik.com. [Religion in Japan] Reference
Here are some of my metempsychoses: Ten years ago I wrote what I called. From Wordnik.com. [A Mortal Antipathy: first opening of the new portfolio] Reference
My first pages relate the effect of a certain literary experience upon myself, -- a series of partial metempsychoses of which I have been the subject. From Wordnik.com. [A Mortal Antipathy: first opening of the new portfolio] Reference
The first ten chapters, if of a kind of satire which has now grown rather obsolete for the nonce, are of a good kind and good in their kind; the history of the metempsychoses of Julian is of a less good kind, and less good in that kind. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon — Volume 1] Reference
O! few have there been among critics, who have followed with the eye of the imagination the imperishable yet ever wandering spirit of poetry through its various metempsychoses, and consequent metamorphoses; -- or who have rejoiced in the light of clear perception at beholding with each new birth, with each rare 'avatar', the human race frame to itself. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Remains, Volume 2] Reference
Having spoken this, she only said to her officers, Tabachins, a panacea; and straight they desired us not to take it amiss if the queen did not invite us to dine with her; for she never ate anything at dinner but some categories, jecabots, emnins, dimions, abstractions, harborins, chelemins, second intentions, carradoths, antitheses, metempsychoses, transcendent prolepsies, and such other light food. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5] Reference
The soul, whether it was conducted to Amenti or driven into the infernal regions -- that is, towards the West -- by the dog-headed monkeys, who appear to have been a sort of dæmons charged with the carrying out of sentences, -- the soul was, nevertheless, not freed from all connection with the body; its relative immortality depended in some sort upon the integrity of the latter; the alteration, the deprivation of one of the limbs was supposed to be felt by the soul, the form of whose impalpable spectre would have been mutilated and could not have traversed, wanting a leg or an arm, the cycle of migrations or metempsychoses. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt] Reference
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