The Archaeological Review, Volumen3George Laurence Gomme D. Nutt, 1889 A journal of historic and pre-historic antiquities. |
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Página 159 - Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments ; which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels ; 5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me ; for I am holier than thou.
Página 158 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall : and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
Página 162 - Rock, his work is perfect: For all his ways are judgment: A God of truth and without iniquity, Just and right is he. They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children : They are a perverse and crooked generation.
Página 158 - Then said He unto me, Son of man, Hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery ? for they say, The Lord seeth us not, the Lord hath forsaken the earth.
Página 241 - ... each dedicated to some particular being, the supposed preserver of their flocks and herds, or to some particular animal, the real destroyer of them: each person then turns his face to the fire, breaks off a knob, and flinging it over his shoulders, says, This I give to thee, preserve thou my horses; this to thee, preserve thou my sheep; and so on.
Página 219 - The complete proof of early totemism in any race involves the following points : (1) the existence of stocks named after plants and animals ; (2) the prevalence of the conception that the members of the stock are of the blood of the eponym animal, or are sprung from a plant of the species chosen as totem ; (3) the ascription to the totem of a sacred character...
Página 221 - There are two of us, a man and a woman, natives of Ossory, who, through the curse of one Natalis, saint and abbot, are compelled every seven years to put off the human form, and depart from the dwellings of men. Quitting entirely the human form, we assume that of woives.
Página 241 - This I give to thee, preserve thou my horses ; this to thee, preserve thou my sheep ; and so on.' After that they use the same ceremony to the noxious animals : 'This I give to thee, O fox, spare thou my lambs ; this to thee, O hooded crow ! this to thee, O eagle...
Página 317 - But perhaps at the same time, and certainly in after (but still ancient) times, these origina talents were divided just as the Stadia were divided (instead of into 60) into 64, 75, 80, 84 and 96 minae, and each of such minae, if multiplied by sixty, would then be the foundation of another talent smaller than the original talent ; thus, as we shall see, the Troy talent of 37,320 grammes, or 576,000 Troy grains, divided by 64 and the quotient multiplied by 60 gives the Tower talent of 34,987 grammes,...
Página 325 - Saxons,' and the pound of 256 pence had ceased to be, we read (in language suited to the money of that day) ' three score pence is charged on each " trev " of the four that are in a maenol, and so subdivided into quarters in succession until each " erw " of the tydden be assessed ; ' therefore there is no erw in the tydden free from taxation.