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Pagina 8
... arm . It happened that one of Boaz's slaves had , by chance , been just drawing some water for his master . As soon as he perceived his new mis- tress he quitted his work , sat down with his arms folded , and allowed her to submit to a ...
... arm . It happened that one of Boaz's slaves had , by chance , been just drawing some water for his master . As soon as he perceived his new mis- tress he quitted his work , sat down with his arms folded , and allowed her to submit to a ...
Pagina 22
... son of Nabor embraced me , swore he thought he saw his sister , and called me by the most endearing names : then ' I * 6 Among the Hebrews , it was customary to call the uncle , brother . placing his arm round my body , he conducted me 22.
... son of Nabor embraced me , swore he thought he saw his sister , and called me by the most endearing names : then ' I * 6 Among the Hebrews , it was customary to call the uncle , brother . placing his arm round my body , he conducted me 22.
Pagina 23
Alexandre-Joseph-Pierre vicomte de Ségur. placing his arm round my body , he conducted me to his house . " Laban is the father of two daugh- ters ; but I saw only Rachel . They have put to me questions without num- ber : they wished to ...
Alexandre-Joseph-Pierre vicomte de Ségur. placing his arm round my body , he conducted me to his house . " Laban is the father of two daugh- ters ; but I saw only Rachel . They have put to me questions without num- ber : they wished to ...
Pagina 30
... arms , why didst thou not speak ? why not appeal to thy fa- ther's heart ? " " Alas ! what could I do against my sister ? Rachel is beloved of Jacob ; but I do not hate her . " La- ban , pressing her to his breast , ex- claimed ; " No ...
... arms , why didst thou not speak ? why not appeal to thy fa- ther's heart ? " " Alas ! what could I do against my sister ? Rachel is beloved of Jacob ; but I do not hate her . " La- ban , pressing her to his breast , ex- claimed ; " No ...
Pagina 35
... heaven bless and render fruitful your alliance ! " - So saying , he delivered the trembling bride into the arms of her abused hus- band . And Rachel , in the mean time , over- whelmed with grief , with jealousy , with indignation , 35.
... heaven bless and render fruitful your alliance ! " - So saying , he delivered the trembling bride into the arms of her abused hus- band . And Rachel , in the mean time , over- whelmed with grief , with jealousy , with indignation , 35.
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Pagina 279 - The women also with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume : but if any of them, drawn by some that passeth by, lie with him, she reproacheth her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken.
Pagina 275 - Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Pagina 275 - And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
Pagina 76 - When any of their wives are indisposed, they fasten a silken thread round her wrist, the end of which is given to the physician, and it is only by the motion which the pulsation communicates to it that he is allowed to judge of the state of his patient. This precaution of jealousy is almost unique in its kind. Work* 1'ul.lMed by W. Wymn, HolyveU Street. Complete for One Penny, Tk
Pagina 200 - To protect the timid and innocent, to combat the Moors in Spain, the Saracens in the east, the tyrants of the castles in Germany, and to secure in France, the quiet of travellers," was, according to some historians, the origin of chivalry.
Pagina 185 - Whilst religious and political revolutions have successively changed the condition, the character, and the manners of women, it is to be remarked that the inhabitants of the East have uniformly remained in the same state. It is in vain that their country has often changed its master ; that it has been by turns subject to the arms and the laws of different usurpers : not one of these conquerors has ever thought of bursting the shackles of an unfortunate sex, 181 or of abating in the least the rigour...
Pagina 76 - The idolaters of beauty, the Chinese, are for ever at the feet of the beings whom they persecute When any of their wives are indisposed, they fasten a silken thread round her wrist, the...
Pagina 187 - I have above observed, in Asia alone have they submitted to slavery without hopes of relief; and, in order to discover some faint traces of their character, we can now only cite some secret intrigues, by which they endeavour, in the retirements of the seraglios, to ameliorate their destiny.
Pagina 1 - ... usurpation, and the severity of their caprices. The design of my work is to demonstrate the equality of the two sexes, different as they may be ; and to prove that every thing is compensated between them ; — that if the one seems to be endowed with peculiar qualities, not possessed by the other, we cannot deny the other advantages equally to be valued ; — that where corporeal strength is wanting, strength of soul supplies the deficiency ; — that our domination over the female sex is but...
Pagina 56 - I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male and female slaves; and I have sent to tell my lord, in order that I may find favor in your sight.