Tom Tit Tot: An Essay on Savage Philosophy in Folk-taleDuckworth and Company, 1898 - 249 páginas |
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Página 196 - The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth ; When there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth...
Página 189 - And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him : as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.
Página 139 - And he said, thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel : for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Página 211 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.
Página 139 - Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham ; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
Página 139 - And the Lord said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.
Página 180 - And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?
Página 16 - An' that stretched out that's black hands at her. Well, she backed a step or two, an' she looked at it, and then she laughed out, an' says she, a pointin' of her finger at it: " Nimmy nimmy not Yar name's Tom Tit Tot.
Página 111 - And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the Lord spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water. Then Israel sang this song, SPRING up, O well; sing ye unto it...
Página 13 - All right," that says, an' lork ! how that twirled that's tail. Well, the next day, her husband he took her inter the room, an' there was the flax an' the day's vittles. " Now there's the flax," says he, " an' if that ain't spun up this night, off goo yar hid.