Library Magazine of American and Foreign ThoughtJ. B. Alden, 1888 - Choice literature |
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... marriage rite of modern days , a survival of the primitive practice of capture is plain- ly observable . The bridegroom takes his " best man " -that is to say , the strongest and most daring among his associates - and goes to carry off ...
... marriage rite of modern days , a survival of the primitive practice of capture is plain- ly observable . The bridegroom takes his " best man " -that is to say , the strongest and most daring among his associates - and goes to carry off ...
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... marriages in large tents , divided into numerous separate but com- municating compartments . At a given signal , so soon as the guests are assembled , the bride starts off through the compartments , follow- ed by her wooer , while the ...
... marriages in large tents , divided into numerous separate but com- municating compartments . At a given signal , so soon as the guests are assembled , the bride starts off through the compartments , follow- ed by her wooer , while the ...
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... marriage rite . With the return of each spring the marriageable lads and lasses erect a " devil's staff , " or May - pole , decked with ribbons and flowers , and dance round it to the tune of the men's castanets . Choice is made by the ...
... marriage rite . With the return of each spring the marriageable lads and lasses erect a " devil's staff , " or May - pole , decked with ribbons and flowers , and dance round it to the tune of the men's castanets . Choice is made by the ...
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... marriage ceremony . A mutual inclination is all that is considered necessary to constitute a union , though su- preme importance is attached to the outward and visible sign of the contract . The man , to mark the bride as his own ...
... marriage ceremony . A mutual inclination is all that is considered necessary to constitute a union , though su- preme importance is attached to the outward and visible sign of the contract . The man , to mark the bride as his own ...
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Chinese marriage code is the law which forbids a man to marry a bride of the same surname as himself . As each surname is supposed to represent a clan , this law of exogamy points backward to a time when even the ceremonial Chinaman ...
Chinese marriage code is the law which forbids a man to marry a bride of the same surname as himself . As each surname is supposed to represent a clan , this law of exogamy points backward to a time when even the ceremonial Chinaman ...
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Page 394 - The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
Page 205 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Page 55 - Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard. to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Page 455 - With neither of them that take offence was I acquainted, and with one of them I care not if I never be...
Page 392 - For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self...
Page 527 - More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 461 - A little further, to make thee a room : Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give. That I not mix thee so, my brain excuses, I mean with great, but...
Page 524 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
Page 122 - I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts on a wholesale scale, more especially with respect to domesticated productions, by printed inquiries, by conversation with skilful breeders and gardeners, and by extensive reading.
Page 50 - Say there is one God alone — God the eternal ; He begetteth not and He is not begotten, And there is none like unto him.