Journal of the American Oriental Society, Volym 11

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American Oriental Society, 1885
"Proceedings" or "Select minutes of meetings" are included in each volume (except volumes 3, 12).
 

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Sida ccxxiv - Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.
Sida lxxviii - When these individual gods are invoked,' I said (p. 532), 'they are not conceived as limited by the power of others, as superior or inferior in rank. Each god is to the mind of the suppliant as good as all the gods. He is felt at the time as a real divinity, as supreme and absolute, in spite of the necessary limitations which, to our mind, a plurality of gods must entail on every single god.
Sida xcix - Smith (J.) —The Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul : With Dissertations on the Life and Writings of St. Luke, and the Ships and Navigation of the Ancients. By JAMES SMITH...
Sida xcix - Annals : Vol. II. The Hebrew People ; or, The History and Religion of the Israelites, from the Origin of the Nation to the Time of Christ. In two Parts, crown 8vo.
Sida ccxxiv - And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
Sida lxxviii - Each god is to the mind of the supplicant as good as all the gods. He is felt, at the time, as a real divinity — as supreme and absolute, in spite of the necessary limitations which, to our mind, a plurality of gods must entail on every single god. All the rest disappear for a moment from the vision of the poet, and he only who is to fulfil their desires stands in full light before the eyes of the worshippers.
Sida 270 - ... the meaning of which is declared to be that the marriage only of one adopted without the form of adoption is to be performed ; no wealth is to be bestowed on him ; on the contrary, in such case the wife and the rest even succeed to the estate, for without observance...
Sida cxc - ve set me in a fitting day, as one the plume sets on the shaft, I've caught and used the fitting word, as one a steed tames with' the rein. There can be no question respecting the interpretation of this interesting relic of Hindu antiquity, nor respecting the character of the action which it was intended to accompany. The record is too pictorial to be misapprehended ; the ceremony is set plainly before our eyes, in all its simplicity...
Sida cxxxv - Iflny 2d, 1883. The Society met, as usual, in the Library of the American Academy, at 10 o'clock AM In the absence of the President and of all the Vice-Presidents, the chair was taken by the senior Director present, Prof. Peabody of Cambridge, and later by Dr. Ward of New York. After the settlement of the order of business and reading of minutes of the last meeting, the reports as to the transactions of the year 1882-3 were offered. The Treasurer's summary of accounts was as follows : RECEIPTS. Balance...
Sida ccxxiv - And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land : for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.

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