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"Work under full headway again, in charge of a fellow who wears a billy-cock hat and smokes cigarettes." "Mr. Morton P. Adams," said Virginia, recognizing the description. "Will you have him arrested too, Uncle Somerville?" But the Rajah rose hastily without replying and went to his office state-room, followed, shadow-like, by the obsequious Jastrow.
The composite nature of the text is discussed by Professor Jastrow in his Hebrew and Babylonian Traditions, pp. 89 ff.; and in his paper in the Journ. Amer. Or. Soc., Vol. XXXVI , pp. 279 ff.; he has analysed it into two main versions, which he suggests originated in Eridu and Nippur respectively.
Hilprecht, Old Babylonian Inscriptions chiefly from Nippur, 1893. Records of the Past, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11. Sayce's Hibbert Lectures, 1887. Tiele, Egyptische en Mesopotamische Godsdiensten. Jastrow, The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, 1898. The most complete account of the whole subject. Jastrow, "Religion of Babylonia," in Dictionary of the Bible, vol. v.
Miss Hoag retired then back to her chair, readjusting the photographs to their table display, wielding her fan largely. "Lord!" she said, across the right railing, "wouldn't this weather fry you!" The Baron wilted to a mock swoon, his little legs stiffening at a hypotenuse. "Ice-cream cone!" he cried. "Ice-cream cone, or I faint!" "Poor Jastrow! Just listen to him!
The Siamese Twins untwisted out of their embrace and went each his way. The Princess Albino wove her cotton hair into a plait, finishing it with a rapidly wound bit of thread. An attendant trundled the Ossified Man through a rear door. Jastrow the Granite Jaw flopped on his derby, slightly askew, and strolled over toward that same door, hands in pocket. He was thewed like an ox.
II, pp. 160 ff.; for a number of other examples, see Jastrow, J.A.O.S., Vol. XXXVI, p. 279, n. 7. Perhaps the most interesting section of the new text is one in which divine instructions are given in the use of plants, the fruit or roots of which may be eaten. Here Usmû, a messenger from Enki, God of the Deep, names eight such plants by Enki's orders, thereby determining the character of each.
"Uncle Somerville, Mr. Winton was here an hour ago, as you know, and I told him what you had done what I had helped you do. Also, I sent him about his business; which is to win his railroad fight if he can. Mr. Jastrow overheard the conversation, purposely, and as he threatens to turn informer, I am saving him the trouble.
Morris Jastrow: The Liver in Antiquity and the Beginnings of Anatomy. Transactions College of Physicians, Philadelphia, 1907, 3. s., XXIX, 117-138. Three points of interest may be referred to in connection with Babylonian medicine. Our first recorded observations on anatomy are in connection with the art of divination the study of the future by the interpretation of certain signs.
I like your philosophy." "That's me every time, Mr. Jastrow. I'm going to die in a little story-and-a-half frame house of my own with a cute little pointy roof, a potato-patch right up to my back steps, and my own white Leghorns crossin' my own country road to get to the other side. Why, I know a Fat in this business, Aggie Lament "
If, therefore, one can read the liver of the sacrificial animal, one enters, as it were, into the workshop of the divine will." Morris Jastrow: loc. cit., p. 122.
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