Oriental Illustrations of the Sacred Scripture Collected from the Customs, Manners, Rites, Superstitions, Traditions of the Hindoos |
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... once in their lives had to make a sacrifice of virtue to that goddess , SUCCOTH - BENOTH.'§ And LEMPRIERE says of her : A surname of Venus , among the Assyrians , in whose temples all the women were obliged to prostitute themselves to ...
... once in their lives had to make a sacrifice of virtue to that goddess , SUCCOTH - BENOTH.'§ And LEMPRIERE says of her : A surname of Venus , among the Assyrians , in whose temples all the women were obliged to prostitute themselves to ...
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... once engaged in amorous sports , he by accident broke her arm- ring , which she immediately tied on his dishevelled lock of hair as the crescent moon . He , however , having laughed at her , she turned away her face , and changed the ...
... once engaged in amorous sports , he by accident broke her arm- ring , which she immediately tied on his dishevelled lock of hair as the crescent moon . He , however , having laughed at her , she turned away her face , and changed the ...
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... once a year in the temples of Siva . It con- tains some most curious allusions to , and illustrations of , antiquity , and may have been written about 1500 years ago , though it professes to de- tail events which occurred many thousands ...
... once a year in the temples of Siva . It con- tains some most curious allusions to , and illustrations of , antiquity , and may have been written about 1500 years ago , though it professes to de- tail events which occurred many thousands ...
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... 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 the mother with his bow and arrow ; but the young one then flew off , and cried aloud " Who is ...
... 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 the mother with his bow and arrow ; but the young one then flew off , and cried aloud " Who is ...
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... once for all , that I have gone regularly through the marginal readings , and have found , with few exceptions , that they literally agree with Eastern language in idiom and figure . In the course of this work , most of them will be ...
... once for all , that I have gone regularly through the marginal readings , and have found , with few exceptions , that they literally agree with Eastern language in idiom and figure . In the course of this work , most of them will be ...
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Page 300 - No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Page 411 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds: I will be like the most High.
Page 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
Page 417 - Let their table become a snare before them : and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
Page 37 - And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.
Page 215 - And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased, because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
Page 151 - And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord ; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold : only the stump of Dagon was left to him.
Page 374 - A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Page 429 - He shall not cry, nor lift up, Nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench : He shall bring forth judgment unto truth. He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth : And the isles shall wait for his law.
Page 13 - There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.