The History of the Condition of Women, in Various Ages and Nations, Том 1J. Allen & Company, 1835 |
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... caste , a heavy fine , and the bastinado . It is considered a still more disgraceful penalty to have the hair cut off . This is rarely in- flicted , except upon very abandoned females , who are afterward plastered with filth , and led ...
... caste , a heavy fine , and the bastinado . It is considered a still more disgraceful penalty to have the hair cut off . This is rarely in- flicted , except upon very abandoned females , who are afterward plastered with filth , and led ...
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... caste of their husbands . They cultivate the land , make baskets and mats , bring water in jars , carry manure and various other articles to market in baskets on their heads , cook food , tend children , weave cloth , reel skeins of ...
... caste of their husbands . They cultivate the land , make baskets and mats , bring water in jars , carry manure and various other articles to market in baskets on their heads , cook food , tend children , weave cloth , reel skeins of ...
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... castes . Those who do not labor are less vigorous than Europeans , but more elegantly shaped . The women are said to be extremely beautiful , with delicate , regular fea- tures , and remarkably fine dark eyes ; but they HINDOO WOMEN . 91.
... castes . Those who do not labor are less vigorous than Europeans , but more elegantly shaped . The women are said to be extremely beautiful , with delicate , regular fea- tures , and remarkably fine dark eyes ; but they HINDOO WOMEN . 91.
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... castes . The tips of their nails are stained red . The long braided hair , the neck , the naked arms , and the feet are covered with jewels ; rings on the hand , rings on the feet , rings in the cars , and sometimes rings in the side of ...
... castes . The tips of their nails are stained red . The long braided hair , the neck , the naked arms , and the feet are covered with jewels ; rings on the hand , rings on the feet , rings in the cars , and sometimes rings in the side of ...
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... castes , have a most deplorable lot . These absurd regulations subject the masters of houses to great expense , as the meanest domestic absolutely refuses to perform any office but the one allotted to his or her caste . A religious and ...
... castes , have a most deplorable lot . These absurd regulations subject the masters of houses to great expense , as the meanest domestic absolutely refuses to perform any office but the one allotted to his or her caste . A religious and ...
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Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.