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 Years |
מתוך הספר
עמוד 5
Birds are generally called , “ the sickness faced ones ” ( meaning the sickness of birds generally appears first in the face or head ) ; " those who come from eggs . ” The Arrows , “ the givers of omens . ” The Crow is , “ the receiver ...
Birds are generally called , “ the sickness faced ones ” ( meaning the sickness of birds generally appears first in the face or head ) ; " those who come from eggs . ” The Arrows , “ the givers of omens . ” The Crow is , “ the receiver ...
עמוד 11
... if thou doest well , that will be thy excellency , thou shalt be accepted : but if thou doest not well , it is a matter of no very great consequence , because there is a sin - offering at thy door . God's design appears to have been ...
... if thou doest well , that will be thy excellency , thou shalt be accepted : but if thou doest not well , it is a matter of no very great consequence , because there is a sin - offering at thy door . God's design appears to have been ...
עמוד 18
To Englishmen it may appear strange that Abram should have so many servants , and that they were born in his own house . Many Hindoos in North Ceylon once possessed numbers of slaves , who were all born on their own grounds .
To Englishmen it may appear strange that Abram should have so many servants , and that they were born in his own house . Many Hindoos in North Ceylon once possessed numbers of slaves , who were all born on their own grounds .
עמוד 23
The English notion of an Eastern veil is , that it is merely used to cover or conceal the face ; but this is not all , as it serves also for a garment . The object of Abimelech appears to have been to purchase ...
The English notion of an Eastern veil is , that it is merely used to cover or conceal the face ; but this is not all , as it serves also for a garment . The object of Abimelech appears to have been to purchase ...
עמוד 24
The object of Abimelech appears to have been to purchase that garment which a woman throws over her head . It is called Mukādu , because it serves also to cover the face . It is considered to be a great charity to give garments of that ...
The object of Abimelech appears to have been to purchase that garment which a woman throws over her head . It is called Mukādu , because it serves also to cover the face . It is considered to be a great charity to give garments of that ...
מה אומרים אנשים - כתיבת ביקורת
לא מצאנו ביקורות במקומות הרגילים
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
alluded animal appear Assyria beautiful become believe body called carried cast cause Chap child common daughter dead death earth East Eastern enemies evil eyes face father fear feet female fields figure fire four fruit give given gods gold gone ground hand head hear heard heathen Hebrew Hence Hindoos holy husband keep kind king land leave live look Lord margin means months moon mother mountains mouth never night offering once pass perform person present priest rain reference relations rice sacred says seen serpent servant shalt Siva sometimes soon speak stones taken Tamul temple thee thing thou translation tree unto verse walk wife wind wish woman young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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
עמוד 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.
עמוד 358 - Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
עמוד 385 - He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
עמוד 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.
מידע ביבליוגרפי
| כותרת | 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 Years |
| מאת | Joseph Roberts |
| הוצאה | John Murray, 1835 |
| מקור מאת | אוניברסיטת אוקספורד |
| דיגיטלי | 30 יוני 2006 |
| אורך | 619 עמודים |
| ייצא ציטוט ביביליוגרפי | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |