 Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest. "You ask me to dig for stone! Shall I dig under her skin for her bones? Then when I die I cannot enter her body to be born again. "You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it, and be rich...  The American Journal of Clinical Medicine - Side 11791911Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1913 - 660 sider
...is not a good law that would take my people away from me to make them sin against the laws of God. "You ask me to plow the ground! Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest. "You ask me to dig for stone ! Shall I dig... | |
 | Albany Institute - 1887 - 354 sider
...that would take my people away from me to make them sin 'against the laws of God. You ask me to plough the ground ! Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom ? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest. You ask me to dig tor stone ! Shall I... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology - 1896 - 608 sider
...is not a good law that would take my people away from me to make them sin against the laws of God. You ask me to plow the ground ! Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosomf Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest. You ask me to dig for stone! Shall... | |
 | James Mooney - 1896 - 606 sider
...a knife and tear шу mother's bosom Т Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest. You ask me to dig for stone! Shall I dig under her skin for her hones? Then when I die I can not enter her body to be born again. You ask me to cut grass aud mako... | |
 | James Mooney - 1896 - 630 sider
....voting men shall never work. Men who work can not tin-am, and wisdom conies to nsin drrams. . . . You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife mid ti'iir my mother's bosom? Yon ask me to dig for stone. Shall I dig under her skin for her bones... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1899 - 666 sider
...prophet remind us strongly of the answer given to Jaazaniah by the Rechabites. Smohalla continued : " You ask me to plow the ground ! Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom ? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest. "You ask me to dig for stone ! Shall I... | |
 | Stanton Davis Kirkham - 1912 - 240 sider
...Washington: My young men shall never work. Men who work cannot dream and wisdom comes to us in dreams. You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife...bosom? You ask me to dig for stone. Shall I dig under the skin for her bones? You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it and be rich like white men.... | |
 | James George Frazer - 1914 - 346 sider
...scratch our common mother by agricultural pursuits." 3 " You ask me," said this Indian sage, " to plough the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's...her skin for her bones? You ask me to cut grass and hay and sell it and be rich like white men. But 1 See CO Miiller, DenkmdUr der alten Kunst* (Gottingen,... | |
 | Henry W. Shoemaker - 1914 - 454 sider
...engaged in farm work. ' ' One of our wise men, in advising us to keep out of farming put it in this way, 'You ask me to plow the ground ! Shall I take a knife and tear my mother 's bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest. You ask me to grub out... | |
 | Hartley Burr Alexander - 1916 - 470 sider
...Earth's motherhood in Occidental literature. Urged to settle his people in agriculture, he replied: "You ask me to plow the ground! Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest. "You ask me to dig for stone! Shall I dig... | |
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