The History of the Condition of Women, in Various Ages and Nations, Volume 1J. Allen & Company, 1835 |
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... festivals . 66 Even in those days there was no dearth of invec- tive against the follies and vices of the sex . Solomon praises good women in the most exalted terms ; but he implies their extreme rarity by the question , " Who can find ...
... festivals . 66 Even in those days there was no dearth of invec- tive against the follies and vices of the sex . Solomon praises good women in the most exalted terms ; but he implies their extreme rarity by the question , " Who can find ...
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... festival lasts three days ; and during all this time , men , women , and children remain in the field . The troops , the long line of tents , the noisy children , and women in all manner of gay costumes , riding in their painted and ...
... festival lasts three days ; and during all this time , men , women , and children remain in the field . The troops , the long line of tents , the noisy children , and women in all manner of gay costumes , riding in their painted and ...
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... festival , furnished with a variety of goods , and with vases full of beautiful flowers . The sisters , nieces , and female cousins of the grand seignior are invited . The women of the harem , in appropriate dresses , tend the bazar ...
... festival , furnished with a variety of goods , and with vases full of beautiful flowers . The sisters , nieces , and female cousins of the grand seignior are invited . The women of the harem , in appropriate dresses , tend the bazar ...
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... festivals and entertainments , and of a character notoriously profli- gate . These girls are more remarkable for agility than grace in their motions . The Persian women are kept continually shut up in the harem , which they rarely leave ...
... festivals and entertainments , and of a character notoriously profli- gate . These girls are more remarkable for agility than grace in their motions . The Persian women are kept continually shut up in the harem , which they rarely leave ...
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... festival by his family and friends . Several years ago , a beautiful Circassian accompa- nied the Persian ambassador to London , where she excited great attention , and was treated with distin- guished kindness . Sir Robert Porter met ...
... festival by his family and friends . Several years ago , a beautiful Circassian accompa- nied the Persian ambassador to London , where she excited great attention , and was treated with distin- guished kindness . Sir Robert Porter met ...
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Page 8 - She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
Page 269 - The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk, no wife to grind his corn.
Page 5 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her, with timbrels, and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 270 - I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer; with man it has often been otherwise.
Page 4 - 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.
Page 118 - I beheld another distressing scene this morning at the Place of Skulls; a poor woman lying dead, or nearly dead, and her two children by her, looking at the dogs and vultures, which were near. The people passed by without noticing the children. I asked them where was their home. They said ' they had no home but where their mother was.
Page 216 - God; from all which it is most reasonable to understand, that some marks of divine favour and distinction were visible about him at his birth. His qualifications and endowments come next under consideration. He is said to have been learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians* and to have been mighty in words and in deeds.
Page 248 - It is a narrow strip of cotton cloth wrapped many times round, immediately over the forehead. In Bondou, the head is encircled with strings of white beads, and a small plate of gold is worn in the middle of the forehead. In Kasson the ladies decorate their heads in a very tasteful and elegant manner with white seashells. In Kaarta and Ludamar, the women raise their hair to a great height by the addition of a pad (as...
Page 11 - Yet are these seditious rogues more terrible than both the other. Come on; be thou my food, and be thou a fury to these seditious varlets, and a by-word to the world, which is all that is now wanting to complete the calamities of us Jews.
Page 270 - a generous action: in so free and kind a manner did they contribute to " my relief, that if I was dry, I drank the sweetest draught; and if hungry, " I ate the coarsest morsel with a double relish.