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 56–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... wind up the ceremonies . No young female of respectable character will dare to show herself in public . Servants assume the airs and practices of their masters ; school - boys , dressed in gay apparel ‡ , go from house to house , to ...
... wind up the ceremonies . No young female of respectable character will dare to show herself in public . Servants assume the airs and practices of their masters ; school - boys , dressed in gay apparel ‡ , go from house to house , to ...
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... wind ; " " the driven swiftness . " The Lion is called , " the king of beasts ; " " the victorious one ; " " he with claws . " The Tiger is , " the springer ; " " the spotted one ; " " the beautiful one . " The Elephant , " the moun ...
... wind ; " " the driven swiftness . " The Lion is called , " the king of beasts ; " " the victorious one ; " " he with claws . " The Tiger is , " the springer ; " " the spotted one ; " " the beautiful one . " The Elephant , " the moun ...
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... wind , who was trying to blow him away , " I am greater than thou . " A king called Aruchanan once set fire to the jungle ; when a serpent which was there , took its young one in its mouth , and flew away . The king saw this , and shot ...
... wind , who was trying to blow him away , " I am greater than thou . " A king called Aruchanan once set fire to the jungle ; when a serpent which was there , took its young one in its mouth , and flew away . The king saw this , and shot ...
Էջ 15
... sent fire from his frontal eye , and burnt him to ashes ; and ever after that he was in- visible to all but his wife . The regions of the South were appointed to Ham and his posterity , and the South wind is the chariot of GENESIS . 15.
... sent fire from his frontal eye , and burnt him to ashes ; and ever after that he was in- visible to all but his wife . The regions of the South were appointed to Ham and his posterity , and the South wind is the chariot of GENESIS . 15.
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... wind is the chariot of Chama or Cama . Job says ( xxxvii . 17. ) , " Thy garments are warm by the south wind , " and great virtues are attributed to it . " It brings heat to the body ; " and many of the sages and kings , who wished to ...
... wind is the chariot of Chama or Cama . Job says ( xxxvii . 17. ) , " Thy garments are warm by the south wind , " and great virtues are attributed to it . " It brings heat to the body ; " and many of the sages and kings , who wished to ...
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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.