 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 respectively in quantity and in size ; whose body has exquisite...  English translation - Side 60av Manu (Lawgiver) - 1825Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Manu (Lawgiver) - 1796 - 442 sider
...; nor with any name railing an image of ' terrour. 10. ' Let him chufe for his wife a girl, whofe ' form has no defect ; who has an agreeable name ; '...gracefully like a phenicopteros, or like ' a young elephant ; whofe hair and teeth are * moderate refpectively in quantity and in fize; ' whofe body has exquifite... | |
 | Thomas Maurice - 1800 - 492 sider
...epilepfy, and elfrphantiafis. Let him, fay the wife Inftitutes, choofe for his wife a girl whofe form hat no defect, who has an agreeable name, who walks gracefully, like a phenicopteros, or like a young elephant, whofe hair and teeth are equally beautiful, and whofe body has1 exquifite foftnefs. A marriage, in... | |
 | Thomas Maurice - 1806 - 402 sider
...hereditary complaint, as phthisis, epilepsy, and elephantiasis. Let him, say the wise Institutes, choose for his wife a girl whose form has no defect, who...or like a young elephant, whose hair and teeth are equally beautiful, and whose body has exquisite softness. A marriage, in any tribe below his own, degrades... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1807 - 606 sider
...choice will appear to be in fome degree Confined, when it muft neccflarily reft upon " A girl whofe form has no defect ; who has " an agreeable name ; who walks gracefully, " like a phenicopteros, or a young elephant; " whofe hair and teeth are moderate refpec'? lively' in quantity and fize ; whofe... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 sider
...excluded ;" and the choice will appear to be in some degree confined, when it must necessarily rest upon a girl, whose form " has no defect ; who has an agreeable name ; who walks gracefully like a Pkcnicoptfros or a young Elephant ; whost hair a:u! teeth are moderate respectively in quantity and... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1809 - 576 sider
...excluded ; and the choice will appear to be in some degree confined when it must necessarily rest upon " A girl whose form has no defect ; who has an " agreeable...; who walks gracefully, like a " phenicopteros, or a young elephant ; whose hair " and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity " and size ; whose... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1809 - 576 sider
...excluded ; and the choice will appear to be in some degree confined when it must necessarily rest upon " A girl whose form has no defect ; who has an " agreeable...; who walks gracefully, like a " phenicopteros, or a young elephant ; whose hair " and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity " and size ; whose... | |
 | 1816 - 514 sider
...atural to suppose that a man may search a. long ime without being able to find "a girl whose form >as no defect; who has an agreeable name; who walks gracefully like a young elephant; whose ">air and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity md size; whose body has... | |
 | James Mill - 1817 - 688 sider
...frequent to make them be, distinguished formally in books of sacred law as two species of marriage. form has no defect ; who has an agreeable name ; who walks gracefully like a CHAP. VII. phenicopteros, or like a young elephant ; whose hair and teeth are moderate ' v— - ' respectively... | |
 | William Ward - 1818 - 738 sider
...and those, which have been subject to [here a number of diseases are mentioned.] Let a person choose for his wife a girl, whose form has no defect ; who...has an agreeable name ; who walks gracefully like a young elephant ; whose hair and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity and in size; whose body... | |
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