 | Hindus - Hindus - 1834 - 444 pages
...winged creature, a snake, or a slave, nor one with any name raising an image of terror. Let him choose for his wife a girl whose form has no defect, who...and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity and size, whose body has an exquisite softness88." When the father of the lover determines to commence... | |
 | Geography - 1834 - 444 pages
...winged creature, a snake, or a slave, nor one with any name raising an image of terror. Let him choose for his wife a girl whose form has no defect, who...and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity and size, whose body has an exquisite softness33." When the father of the lover determines to commence... | |
 | Alexander Duff - Hinduism - 1839 - 716 pages
...positive and negative forms. He is enjoined to espouse for his wife, " a girl, whose form has no defects ; who has an agreeable name ; who walks gracefully like...are moderate, respectively in quantity and in size." He is strictly prohibited to marry " a girl with reddish hair, or with any deformed limb ; or one troubled... | |
 | Alexander Duff - Hinduism - 1839 - 738 pages
...positive and negative forms. He is enjoined to espouse for his wife, " a girl, whose form has no defects ; who has an agreeable name ; who walks gracefully like...; or like a young elephant ; whose hair and teeth arc moderate, respectively in quantity and in size." He is strictly prohibited to marry " a girl with... | |
 | Alexander Duff - Hinduism - 1840 - 742 pages
...whose form has no defects ; who has an agreeable name ; who walks gracefully like a phenicopterous ; or like a young elephant ; whose hair and teeth are moderate, respectively in quantity and in size." He is strictly prohibited to marry " a girl with reddish hair, or with any deformed limb ; or one troubled... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1843 - 564 pages
...the Brahmin's life, when he has left his instructor, to commence house-keeping, — "Let him choose for his wife a girl, whose form has no defect ; who...and in size ; whose body has exquisite softness." THE BRAHMIN. " When a Brahmin springs to light, he is born above the world, the chief of all creatures,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1843 - 560 pages
...the Brahmin's life, when he has left his instructor, to commence house-keeping,— " Let him choose for his wife a girl, whose form has no defect; who...quantity and in size; whose body has exquisite softness." THE BRAHMIN. " When a Brahmin springs to light, he is born above the world, the chief of all creatures,... | |
 | Thomas Low Nichols - Religions - 1855 - 138 pages
...of the Brahmin's life, when he has left his instructor, to commence house-keeping — Let him choose for his wife a girl, whose form has no defect ; who...gracefully, like a phenicopteros, or like a young elephant; wbpse hair and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity and in size ; whose body has exquisite softness.... | |
 | Stephen Watson Fullom - Women - 1855 - 428 pages
...on this important subject. " Let a person choose for his wife," says the reverend scribe, " a maid, whose form has no defect, who has an agreeable name, who walks gracefully like a young elephant, whose hair is moderate in quantity, and whose teeth are of reasonable size." Not a... | |
 | John Wilson - Child welfare - 1855 - 508 pages
...marriage. The candidate for union with her is thus directed : — " Let him choose for his wife one [a girl whose form has no defect] who has an agreeable name ; who walks like the adjutant bird, or like a young elephant ; whose hair and teeth are moderate respectively in... | |
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Let him chuse for his wife a girl, whose form ' has no defect ; who has an agreeable name ; who ' walks gracefully like a phenicopteros, or like a young ' elephant; whose hair and teeth are moderate respec' tively in quantity and in size ; whose body... 
