The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal, Том 11

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Stephen Denison Peet
F.H. Reveell, 1889
 

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Сторінка 7 - She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships ; she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
Сторінка 7 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Сторінка 20 - ... Impart to us, out of thy great mercy, thy gifts, which we are not worthy to receive through our own merits." "Keep peace with all," says another petition; "bear injuries with humility; God, who sees, will avenge you." But the most striking parallel with Scripture is in the remarkable declaration, that "he, who looks too curiously on a woman, commits adultery with his eyes.
Сторінка 238 - Bartholinus, p. 641,) Odin says, " If I see a man dead, and hanging aloft on a tree, I engrave Runic characters so wonderful, that the man immediately descends and converses with me.
Сторінка 202 - It combines well with such stimulants as are necessary to take. It makes a delicious drink with water and sugar only. For sale by all druggists. Pamphlet Free. RUMFORD CHEMICAL WORKS. Providence, RI . J. KRAFT. CENTER STREET. STUDENTS
Сторінка 12 - But, as the first potters, weavers, house-builders were women, the idea of a divine creator as a moulder, designer, and architect originated with her, or was suggested by her. The three fates, Clotho, who spins the thread of life ; Lachesis, who fixes its prolongation ; and Atropos, who cuts this thread with remorseless shears, are necessarily derived from woman's work. The mother goddess of all peoples, culminating in the apotheosis of the Virgin Mary, is an idea, either originated by women or devised...
Сторінка 7 - She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and call her blessed ; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Сторінка 24 - Europe during that time it will be found that the period from about AD 500 to AD 800 was one of great missionary activity. Before the former date the church was doing little more than feeling its way and asserting itself against the pagan supremacy in the basin of the Mediterranean and elsewhere. After the latter date the incursions and devastations of the northern barbarians paralyzed European missionary efforts. But from the beginning of the fifth century to the beginning of the eighth there was...
Сторінка 20 - Wilt thou blot us out, O Lord, forever ? Is this punishment intended, not for our reformation, but for our destruction? Impart to us, out of thy great mercy, thy gifts, which we are not worthy to receive through our own merits.
Сторінка 113 - ... the foot. The left hand grasps the end of the wire, on which are strung the wampum, and, as it were, wraps the beads around the fluted or hollow circumference of the grindstone. While the grindstone is revolving, the beads are held down on to it, and turned round by a flat piece of wood held in the right hand, and by the grinding soon become round and smooth. They are then strung on hempen strings, about a foot in length. From five to ten strings are a day's work for a female. They are sold to...

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