The History of the Condition of Women, in Various Ages and Nations, Том 1J. Allen & Company, 1835 |
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... singing men and singing women ; and throughout the Old Testament there is fre- quent mention of music and dancing at sacred festi- vals . After Pharaoh and his host had perished in the Red sea , we are told that " Miriam the prophetess ...
... singing men and singing women ; and throughout the Old Testament there is fre- quent mention of music and dancing at sacred festi- vals . After Pharaoh and his host had perished in the Red sea , we are told that " Miriam the prophetess ...
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... Sing ye to the Lord , for he hath triumphed gloriously . " Deborah and Barak likewise joined in a song of triumph ... singers probably existed , whose character was similar to such classes now found in the East ; this may be inferred ...
... Sing ye to the Lord , for he hath triumphed gloriously . " Deborah and Barak likewise joined in a song of triumph ... singers probably existed , whose character was similar to such classes now found in the East ; this may be inferred ...
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... Singing and dancing girls were selected from the most beautiful to entertain the wealthy at their meals ; but we have no means of knowing whether ladies of high rank considered it a degradation to dance and sing before strangers . It is ...
... Singing and dancing girls were selected from the most beautiful to entertain the wealthy at their meals ; but we have no means of knowing whether ladies of high rank considered it a degradation to dance and sing before strangers . It is ...
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... sing almost perpetually . In cities the marriage ceremonies are similar to the Turkish . The processions are gay according to the wealth of the parties , and blessings are invoked on the bride as she passes . The Bedouins live in tents ...
... sing almost perpetually . In cities the marriage ceremonies are similar to the Turkish . The processions are gay according to the wealth of the parties , and blessings are invoked on the bride as she passes . The Bedouins live in tents ...
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... singing , shouting , firing guns , and performing rival feats on horseback , until after midnight . The bride remains blindfolded during an entire week , her hus- band merely removing the bandage from her eyes for a moment , the first ...
... singing , shouting , firing guns , and performing rival feats on horseback , until after midnight . The bride remains blindfolded during an entire week , her hus- band merely removing the bandage from her eyes for a moment , the first ...
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Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.