Oriental Illustrations of the Sacred Scriptures,: Collected from the Customs, Manners, Rites, Superstitions, Traditions, Parabolical, Idiomatical, and Proverbial Forms of Speech, Climate, Works of Art, and Literature, of the Hindoos, During a Residence in the East of Nearly Fourteen YearsJohn Murray, 1835 - 619 σελίδες |
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... hair as the crescent moon . He , however , having laughed at her , she turned away her face , and changed the crescent into the full moon . § The crescent is common to both , and is assumed as circumstances may require . See ...
... hair as the crescent moon . He , however , having laughed at her , she turned away her face , and changed the crescent into the full moon . § The crescent is common to both , and is assumed as circumstances may require . See ...
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... hairs ; to him how many grey days ? he has seen twenty - six years . " X. 9. " A mighty hunter before the Lord . " - It is said of great heroes , also of those who are very zealous in their devotions , " they are mighty before the gods ...
... hairs ; to him how many grey days ? he has seen twenty - six years . " X. 9. " A mighty hunter before the Lord . " - It is said of great heroes , also of those who are very zealous in their devotions , " they are mighty before the gods ...
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... hair is soon dishevelled , and the weaker fall beneath their antagonists . Then begins the beating , biting , and scratching , till in their cruel rage they have nearly destroyed some of the party . The next business is with the ...
... hair is soon dishevelled , and the weaker fall beneath their antagonists . Then begins the beating , biting , and scratching , till in their cruel rage they have nearly destroyed some of the party . The next business is with the ...
Σελίδα 20
... hair . The latchet I suppose to mean the thong of the sandal , which goes over the top of the foot , and betwixt the great and little toes . It is proverbial to say , should a man be accused of taking away some valuable article which ...
... hair . The latchet I suppose to mean the thong of the sandal , which goes over the top of the foot , and betwixt the great and little toes . It is proverbial to say , should a man be accused of taking away some valuable article which ...
Σελίδα 90
... hair of the child shall be sacred to the deity till he shall arrive at a certain age . Hence the custom of shaving the whole of the hair off , in hot weather , is in those cases dispensed with , as • Bishop Heber says , of Monghyr , vol ...
... hair of the child shall be sacred to the deity till he shall arrive at a certain age . Hence the custom of shaving the whole of the hair off , in hot weather , is in those cases dispensed with , as • Bishop Heber says , of Monghyr , vol ...
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alluded allusions amongst animals Assyria Baal Peor Baal-zebub Babylon beasts beautiful believe blessed body Boothroyd Brahma Brahmin burning called Calmet cast ceremonies Ceylon CHAP child daughter dead death deity earth East Eastern Egypt enemies enquired evil eyes face familiar spirit father favour fear feast feet fellow female fire fruit give gods gold gone ground hair hand hath head heathen heaven Hebrew Hence Hindoos holy husband idols Imaus Israel jewels Jews Kandian war king Lingam live look Lord margin marriage moon mother mountains mouth never night offering ornaments Parvati person Philistines Priapus priest rain reference rice Royal Asiatic Society sacred says Scanda Purana seen Septuagint serpent servant Siva sorrow speak stone taken Tamul translation temple thee thing thou shalt tree unto verse vessel Vishnoo walk wife woman word worship Yama
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Σελίδα 433 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Σελίδα 300 - The gold and the crystal cannot equal it : and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold. No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls : for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Σελίδα 361 - Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps: Fire and hail; snow and vapours: stormy wind fulfilling his word: Mountains and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars: Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl...
Σελίδα 417 - And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
Σελίδα 523 - And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.
Σελίδα 13 - And behold I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven, and every thing that is in the earth shall die, but with thee will I establish My Covenant, and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife, and thy sons
Σελίδα 571 - And yet indeed she is my sister: she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife.
Σελίδα 358 - Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Σελίδα 385 - He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
Σελίδα 576 - Neither was there any among them that lacked : for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, and laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.