 | Child rearing - 1844 - 312 pages
...which gave a new character to- the wars of Asia .after the conquest of India-: " To the end they might provoke the elephants to fight, they showed them the blood of grapes and mulberries. Moreover, they divided the beasts among the armies, and for every elephant they appointed... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1856 - 568 pages
...Jews, given by the unknown author who wrote the First Book of Maccabees : " To the end that they might provoke the elephants to fight, they showed them the blood of grapes and of mulberries." — 1 Mac. vi. 34. Dr. More, by using the expression spread " before" the elephants, evidently takes... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1854 - 586 pages
...SyroMacedonians appear to have used a different stimulus to produce the same effect : " To the end they might provoke the elephants to fight, they showed them the blood of grapes and mulberries." — 1 Mace. vi. 34. 2 By this " multitude of islands" in the Indian Sea, is plainly meant... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1854 - 548 pages
...SyroMacedonians appear to have used a different stimulus to produce the same effect: " To the end they might provoke the elephants to fight, they showed them the blood of grapes and mulberries."—1 Mace. vi. 34. have been intended to apply to some other country than Zanzibar; Abyssinia,... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1854 - 544 pages
...SyroMacedonians appear to have used a different stimulus to produce the same effect: " To the end they might provoke the elephants to fight, they showed, them the blood of grapes and mulberries."—1 Mace. vi. 34. 2 By this " multitude of islands" in the Indian Sea, is plainly mea.nfr;... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1856 - 598 pages
...Jews, given by the unknown author who wrote the First Book of Maccabees : " To the end that they might provoke the elephants to fight, they showed them the blood of grapes and of mulberries." — 1 Mac. vi. 34. Dr. More, by using the expression spread " before" the elephants, evidently takes... | |
 | Anthony (st, of Padua.) - 1856 - 150 pages
...out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them. 1 Macc. vi. 34. And to the end they might provoke the elephants to fight, they showed them the blood of grapes and mulberries. Heb. xii. 3. For consider Him that endured such contra . 1 diction of sinners against Himself,... | |
 | tennent - 1859 - 694 pages
...mention of the elephant in Sitcred History is in the account given in Maccabees of the invasion ot Egypt by Antiochus, who entered it 170 BC, " with chariots...blood of grapes and of mulberries." The term showed, " !fn£ai;" might be thought to imply that the animals were enraged by the sight of the wine and its... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1859 - 764 pages
...stimulated by the sight of the red juice of mulberries and grapes : — "And to the end they might provoke the elephants to fight, they showed them the blood of grapes and mulberries." — I Maccabees vi. 34. The passage in question involves a very curious point regarding... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Elephants - 1861 - 586 pages
...prevails in Ceylon is simple, and the conformity and obedience of the animal are developed with singular i. 17. Frequent allusions to the use of elephants...books ; and in chap. vi. 34, it is stated that " to proToke the elephants to fight they showed them the blood of grapes and of mulberries." The term showed,... | |
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Moreover, they divided the beasts among the armies, and for every elephant they appointed a thousand men, armed with coats of mail, and with helmets of brass on their heads; and. 
