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 էջ |
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Արդյունքներ 87–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... speaking of a wife in the East , though it must be confessed that they associate with this term too much of the idea of a servant . Does an aged per- son advise a young friend to get married ; he will not say , " Seek for a wife , " but ...
... speaking of a wife in the East , though it must be confessed that they associate with this term too much of the idea of a servant . Does an aged per- son advise a young friend to get married ; he will not say , " Seek for a wife , " but ...
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... speak of a flock without mentioning what is its kind . 66 7. " If thou doest well , shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well , sin lieth at the door . " D'Oyly and Mant interpret this , " Your sin will find you out ...
... speak of a flock without mentioning what is its kind . 66 7. " If thou doest well , shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well , sin lieth at the door . " D'Oyly and Mant interpret this , " Your sin will find you out ...
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... speak to each other on important or solemn subjects , they do not always use the personal pronoun , but the name of the person addressed is mentioned , apparently , that by - standers may have no doubt as to the individual in- tended ...
... speak to each other on important or solemn subjects , they do not always use the personal pronoun , but the name of the person addressed is mentioned , apparently , that by - standers may have no doubt as to the individual in- tended ...
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... speaking , it is so . Some of these vessels carry upwards of two hundred tons . IX . 13 . - " I do set my bow in the cloud . " The rainbow is the bow with which Indran , the king of heaven , fought his foes . With it , having 14 GENESIS .
... speaking , it is so . Some of these vessels carry upwards of two hundred tons . IX . 13 . - " I do set my bow in the cloud . " The rainbow is the bow with which Indran , the king of heaven , fought his foes . With it , having 14 GENESIS .
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... speaking of a man who will die soon " Ah ! in five years his days will be That gone . - young man has 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 ...
... speaking of a man who will die soon " Ah ! in five years his days will be That gone . - young man has 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 ...
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Oriental Illustrations of the Sacred Scriptures ... Joseph Roberts (M.R.A.S.) Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1835 |
Oriental Illustrations of the Sacred Scriptures,: Collected from the Customs ... Joseph Roberts Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1835 |
Common terms and phrases
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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Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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
Էջ 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.
Էջ 358 - Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Էջ 385 - He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
Էջ 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.