 | William Hurd - 1799 - 952 sider
...vi. 43.) " The women also, with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume : but if any of them, drawn by .some that passeth by, lie...thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken." Well might the poet say, Here adoration to the stones is paid, There guilty lovers in the streets art... | |
 | Alexandre-Joseph-Pierre vicomte de Ségur - 1803 - 376 sider
...allude to this law. " The women, with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume ; but if any of them, drawn by some that passeth by, lie...thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken *." Modesty is singularly honoured in China. A Chinese female considers it a violation of all the laws... | |
 | Herodotus - 1812 - 478 sider
...bran for perfume. But if any of them, drawn by •ome that passeth by, lie with him, she leproacheth her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken."' Upon the above Mr. Biyant remarks, that instead of women, it should probably be read virgins ; and... | |
 | Herodotus - 1814 - 422 sider
...with cords about them sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume. But if any of them, drawn by sonic that passeth by, lie with him, she reproacheth her...thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken." Upon the above Mr. Bryant remarks, that instead of women, it should probably be read virgins; and that... | |
 | William Hurd - 1814 - 954 sider
...TÍ. 43, " The women also, with cards about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume ; but if any of them, drawn by some that passeth by, lie with him, shereproachetb Ler fellow, that she was not thought as worthy аз herself, nor her cord broken." Well... | |
 | Herodotus - 1821 - 482 sider
...Baruch, vi. 42. "The women also witli cords about them silting in the ways, burn bran for perfume. But if any of them, drawn by some that passeth .by, lie...thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken." as are of superior rank, do not omit even this opportunity of separating themselves from their inferiors;... | |
 | William Brown - 1823 - 532 sider
...avenues to them, burn bran for perfume: but if any of them, drawn aside by some that passeth by, lieth with him, she reproacheth her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor had her cord broken." The best paraphrase on which words will be found in Herodotus,* of which a translation... | |
 | Herodotus - 1824 - 380 sider
...vi. 42. " The wo' men also with cords about them sitting ' in the ways, burn bran for perfume. ' But if any of them, drawn by some that ' passeth by, lie with him, she reproach' eth her fellow, that she was not thought ' as worthy as herself, nor her cord " broken."... | |
 | Thomas Amory - 1825 - 346 sider
...in the ways, burn bran for perfume; but if any of them, drawn by some thatpasseth by, lie with her, she reproacheth her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken."— Baruch, ch. 6. v. 43. Herodotus, who lived almost: two centuries after, in explanation of this passage... | |
 | Thomas Amory - 1825 - 1092 sider
...the ways, burn bran for perfume; but if any of them, drawn fay some that passe th by, lie with her, she reproacheth her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken."— Baruch, ch. 6. v. 43. Herodotus, who lived almost- two centuries after, in explanation of this passage... | |
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The women also with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume : but if any of them, drawn by some that passeth by, lie with him, she reproacheth her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken. 
