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The image of the Divine power in that country of Pagans. Vide note 3, page 30, respecting the chilla, or "period of forty." That is to say, she had never seen a Muhammadan at his prayers. Lat and Manat were the two great idols of Hindu worship in former times. In the languages of southern India, Turk is the general appellation for a Musalman.

It may be proper here to make some inquiries relative to these Rechabites to the person whose charge they conceived so binding; and the nature and design of the charge. The Rechabites are said to have been a branch of the Kenites, and to have descended from Hobab, the son of Jethro, Moses' father in law. * * Vide Henry and Brown's Dictionary.

Hence the apron, which is a Masonic emblem, has from time immemorial been the covering of shame. Should it occur to you vide Genesis that God made the aprons, dismiss it as a temptation of the devil, who would, if possible, prevent you from unveiling him. By this time it will be well to recur to the number 9; your chain of reasoning has established that it possesses a horrible significance.

A number of rats were introduced under this cover, and hot coals were heaped upon the vessel, till the rats, rendered furious by the heat, gnawed into the very bowels of the victim, in their agony to escape. The rats were sent by the Governor himself. Vide Letter of the Commissioners to Sonoy, apud Bor, viii. 640, 641. The whole letter is a wonderful monument of barbarity.

For Sixtus IV. and his career, with the tragedy in the Cathedral of Florence see Villari's Life of Machiavelli, English Edition, vol. ii. pp. 341, 342. For the passages in the dispatches referred to, vide ibid. vol. i. p. 198. Naturally, then, while their religion showed itself in wonderful monuments of every sort, their practical sense was shown by a steady opposition to papal encroachments.

But alas! it don't save you from being bored with letters, vide, for example, this, perhaps, which I am now writing. But, O excellent man! though you never bored me in talk, you have lately bored into me; I will tell you how. A month or two ago a book agent came to me, asking me to subscribe for "Bryant's Pictorial America." I was astonished, and said, "Do you mean to say that Mr.

Chand-rat, is applied to the night on which the new moon is first visible, which night, together with the following day till sunset, constitutes the pahli tarikh, or ghurra, that is the first of the lunar month. Ramazan is the ninth Muhammadan month, during which they keep Lent. Vide note, p. 59. The 'Id is the grand festival after the Lent of Ramazan is over.

"Then Ross was sneaking down here at night and putting the spiders which he had got from Professor Moseley through my keyhole, in the hope that sooner or later one of them would get me," said Dorr. "A very reasonable expectation, too. Vide, the dogs," returned Average Jones. "And now," said Mr. Curtis Fleming, "will some one kindly explain to me what this Ross fiend had against our friend, Mr.

You feel now how ridiculous it would be for you to love a poor man who is nothing but a soldier, and who has to offer nothing to you but a little glory and his love. Vide "Lettres a Josephine. "Bonaparte," exclaimed Josephine, half tenderly, half anxiously, "what have I done that you should be angry with me? Why do you accuse me of indifference, while you know very well that I love you?"

"Thugut wants those papers, and he has forgiven us in advance if they should be a little blood-stained," said Victoria, looking up smilingly to old Colonel Barbaczy, who, with his hands folded on his back, his large shaggy eyebrows gloomily contracted, was slowly pacing the room. "Barbaczy! Vide "Uteransoher Lodiacus." Edited by Theod. Mundt, 1835.

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