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Some one has taken the trouble to count the number of lines: they amount to 20,529, and are all in dialogue! Whether the unfortunate audience had to sit all through this performance one does not know. One hopes, for their sake, that, like a Chinese play or a Bayreuth performance of Wagner's operas, the performance was extended over a number of days.
The necks and apertures of these earliest forms of the water jar were made very small in proportion to their other dimensions, presumably on account of the necessity of often carrying them full of water over steep and rough mesa paths, coupled perhaps with the imitation of other forms. To render them as light as possible they were also made very thin. One of the consequences of all this was that when large they could not be stroked inside, as the shoulders or uttermost upper peripheries of the vessel could not be reached with the hand or scraper through the small openings. The effect of the pressure exerted in smoothing them on the outside, therefore, naturally caused the upper parts to sink down, generating the spheroidal shape of the jar. (see Fig. 531), one of the most beautiful types of the olla ever known to the Pueblos. At Zuñi, wishing to have an ancient jar of this form which I had seen, reproduced, I showed a drawing of it to a woman expert in the manufacture of pottery. Without any instructions from me beyond a mere statement of my wishes, she proceeded at once to sprinkle the inside of a basket-bowl with sand, managing the clay in a way above described and continuing the vessel-shaping upward by spiral building. She did not at first make the shoulders low or sloping, but rounded or arched them upward and outward (see again Fig. 529). At this I remonstrated, but she gave no heed other than to ejaculate "wá na ni,
To make public the conduct of the traitor was to provoke him to farther disclosures: to conceal it, was to connive at the destruction of his friends, and the ruin of his own prospects. But these precautions came too late. After the deposition of the protector, Willis had continued to communicate with Thurloe, who with the intelligence Pap. iii. 514, 517, 518, 520, 524, 526, 529, 531, 535, 536.
The Auguste had 500 sick, and lost 44. On board the Intrépide 70 died out of 529 sick. These were the worst cases; but other ships also suffered heavily. It is, perhaps, not generally remembered till what a very late date armies and navies were more than decimated by disease.
Again, in B.C. 529, the ruler of the Ch'u State destroyed the Ts'ai State, and offered up the heir apparent as a victim. An officer said, "This is inauspicious. If the five sacrificial animals may not be used promiscuously, how much less can a feudal prince be offered up?" The custom of burying live persons with the dead was first practised in China in B.C. 580.
On the duplicate six demons are placed in the second division and the seventh in the third. On the duplicate those two demons do not occur. Schell thinks that the face is that of a dog. On the Zurghul duplicate the horse is not pictured. See p. 529. This division is not marked in the duplicate from Zurghul. Not occurring on the duplicate. Scheil questions whether the divisions have this purpose.
The laws referred to may be found by consulting 2 Brevard's Digest, 228, 213, 216; Haywood's Manual, 78, chap. 13, pp. 518, 529; 1 Virginia Revised Code, 722-3; Prince's Digest, 454; 2 Missouri Laws, 741; Mississippi Revised Code, 571. Laws similar to these exist throughout the southern slave code.
Love, to their doctrine, is gone out of the country. 'Love is gone, and now coveting, pinching, griping, and such things, are in fashion; now iniquity abounds instead of grace, in many that name the name of Christ. p. 529, 520.
After a reign of thirty years he was slain, in 529 B.C., in battle with the Massagetæ, a tribe of Central Asia. He left his kingdom to his son Cambyses.
See above, pp. 183, 560. Obverse ll. 33, 37. See above, p. 185. See p. 186. See p. 183. See pp. 417, 598. Jensen's Kosmologie, pp. 483, 484. See p. 529. See pp. 111, 171, 190. See chapter v. See Koldewey in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, ii. 403-430. See the valuable chapter in Peters' work on Nippur, ii. 214-234. Proceedings of the American Oriental Society, 1896, p. 166.
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