The Past and Future of the Kaffir Races: In Three Parts. I. Their History. II. Their Manners and Customs. III. The Means Needful for Their Preservation and Improvement, Parts 1-3 |
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Page 352 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Page 4 - So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth ; and they left off to build the city.
Page 346 - Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt : behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me : come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people ; for they are too mighty for me : peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land : for I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.
Page 311 - We both believe the very same thing. It is God that makes the rain, but I pray to him by means of these medicines, and, the rain coming, of course it is then mine.
Page 368 - ... hlonipa" her father-inlaw, and all her husband's male relations in the ascending line; that is, to be cut off from all intercourse with them. She is not allowed to pronounce their names, even mentally; and whenever the emphatic syllable of either of their names occurs in any other word, she must avoid it, by either substituting an entirely new word, or at least, another syllable in its place. Hence this custom has given rise to an almost distinct language among the women.
Page 312 - He makes the grass the hills adorn, And clothes the smiling fields with corn : The beasts with food his hands supply, And the young ravens when they cry.
Page 316 - Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers : now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments. For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents : but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
Page 316 - Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams.
Page 296 - In 1711, Chief-justice Powell presided at a trial where an old woman was pronounced guilty. The judge, who had sneered openly at the whole proceedings, asked the jury if they found the woman ' guilty upon the indictment of conversing with the devil in the shape of a cat. The reply was : ' We do find her guilty of that...
Page 352 - ... but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.