The History of the Condition of Women, in Various Ages and Nations, Том 1J. Allen & Company, 1835 |
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... wealth ; hence , physical strength , being the quality most needed , was most esteemed . To be the mother of a numerous family was the most honor- able distinction of women ; and the birth of a son was regarded as a far more fortunate ...
... wealth ; hence , physical strength , being the quality most needed , was most esteemed . To be the mother of a numerous family was the most honor- able distinction of women ; and the birth of a son was regarded as a far more fortunate ...
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... wealthy father ; and when Abraham's servant sought the beautiful Rebecca as a wife for Isaac , the damsel not only drew water for him , but for his camels also . The performance of these tasks does not necessa- rily imply a deficiency ...
... wealthy father ; and when Abraham's servant sought the beautiful Rebecca as a wife for Isaac , the damsel not only drew water for him , but for his camels also . The performance of these tasks does not necessa- rily imply a deficiency ...
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... removing so frequently , it would have been no easy matter to have preserved the complete privacy that exists in the seraglios of the East . But as the Jews grew more numerous and wealthy , the higher ranks indulged in a 6 JEWISH WOMEN .
... removing so frequently , it would have been no easy matter to have preserved the complete privacy that exists in the seraglios of the East . But as the Jews grew more numerous and wealthy , the higher ranks indulged in a 6 JEWISH WOMEN .
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Lydia Maria Child. numerous and wealthy , the higher ranks indulged in a much greater number of wives , and kept them ... wealth of the owner . Here the women pursued their occupations , played with their children , and enjoyed the cool ...
Lydia Maria Child. numerous and wealthy , the higher ranks indulged in a much greater number of wives , and kept them ... wealth of the owner . Here the women pursued their occupations , played with their children , and enjoyed the cool ...
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... wealth and rank , fled away to Jerusalem during the Roman invasion , and was there when the city was besieged by Cæsar's troops . The little property she had been able to bring safely out of Perea was seized by the rapacious guards ...
... wealth and rank , fled away to Jerusalem during the Roman invasion , and was there when the city was besieged by Cæsar's troops . The little property she had been able to bring safely out of Perea was seized by the rapacious guards ...
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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.