 | 1826 - 918 หน้า
...all sides, and supported on tall wooden posts, of sufficient height to admit of the combustion «f the body without injury to the roof. Nor is even this...its origin in some way from the ancient doctrine of Metempsychosis, so strongly inculcated by their religion. A different custom prevails among the higher... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1826 - 902 หน้า
...nothing is left of the corpse but the bare bones. The flesh thus cut up is thrown to dogs, vultures,and other carnivorous birds, which on this account resort...its origin in some way from the ancient doctrine of Metempsychosis, so strongly inculcated by their religion.* A différent custom prevails among the higher... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1826 - 884 หน้า
...laudable, and the Siamese arrogate to themselves no small share of merit in thus disposing of the tody as food, the material of life, to the beasts of the...connected with their notions of a future existence, ami may have derived its origin in some way from the ancient doctrine of Metempsychosis, so strongly... | |
 | Carl Spindler - 1835 - 1166 หน้า
...who made me what I am ?" cried Archibald, violently. " Did you not send me forth to be a companion to the beasts of the field, and to the birds of the air? Did not you expel me from the society of man; converting me into a blood-thirsty monster ? and all... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - 1853 - 130 หน้า
...farmer's field, or the crows that fly over it"; thus comparing this very numerous class, not merely to the beasts of the field and to the birds of the air, but to that filthy, mischievous, thievish, carrion bird, the crow, — the disgust and abhorrence of... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - 1854 - 322 หน้า
...farmer's field, or the crows that fly over it"; thus comparing this very numerous class, not merely to the beasts of the field and to the birds of the air, but to that filthy, mischievous, thievish, carrion bird, the crow, — the disgust and abhorrence of... | |
 | William Denton - 1862 - 514 หน้า
...When they use the means which He has placed in their hands for this purpose. He who has given instinct to the beasts of the field, and to the birds of the air, by which they are enabled to procure 1 " Solicitude duplex est, una est serviré divitiis : alia est... | |
 | Daniel Worcester Faunce - 1875 - 146 หน้า
...gigantic boundary from star to star and from sun to sun. He is the Lord of the world. He has given names to the beasts of the field and to the birds of the air and to the fish of the sea. He can even " call the stars his own." " Thou madest him to have dominion... | |
 | George Franklin Fort - 1881 - 522 หน้า
...winds.4 Judges of the secret Vehmgericht passed sentences of death as follows : " Your body and flesh to the beasts of the field and to the birds of the air, to the fishes in the stream."5 The judicial executioner, in carrying into effect this decree, severed... | |
 | Franz Hoffmann - 1882 - 342 หน้า
...opposition to his power and that of the Church. Therefore your tenures are forfeitec and your body belongs to the beasts of the field and to the birds of the air. Where an other hath peace and safety, you shall have none, and you shall be a byword and a scoff throughout... | |
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We found one of those pyramids covered with vultures, and the enclosure much frequented by dogs. The scene was loathsome and disgusting in the extreme, and sufficiently attested the prevalence of this custom. The practice is looked upon as charitable... 
