 An idiot or a fool is vulgarly regarded by them as a being whose mind is in heaven, while his grosser part mingles among ordinary mortals ; consequently, he is considered an especial favourite of heaven. Whatever enormities a reputed saint may commit...  The Origin of Priesthood - Side 110af Gunnar Landtman - 1905 - 217 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Thomas Patrick Hughes - 1885 - 794 sider
...his Modern Egyptians, vol. ip 288, says : — '• An idiot or a fool is vulgarly regarded by them as a being whose mind is in heaven, while his grosser...heaven. Whatever enormities a reputed saint may commit (and there are many who are constantly infringing precepts of their religion), such acts do not affect... | |
 | 1887 - 796 sider
...door de Egyptenaren aan krankzinnigen bewezen wordt. //An idiot or a fool is vulgarly regarded by them as a being whose mind is in heaven , while his grosser...favourite of heaven. Whatever enormities a reputed saiut may commit (and there are many who are constantly infringing precepts of their religion), such... | |
 | James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings - 1902 - 602 sider
...personality is lost in that of the invading spirit.2 ' An idiot or fool is vulgarly regarded by the Arabs as a being whose mind is in heaven while his grosser...heaven. Whatever enormities a reputed saint may commit (and there are many who are constantly infringing precepts of their religion), such acts do not affect... | |
 | Vincent Stuckey Lean - 1903 - 500 sider
...to such respect, as is the case also in Switzerland. An idiot or fool is vulgarly regarded by them as a being whose mind is in heaven, while his grosser part mingles amongst ordinary mortals, consequently he is considered an especial favorite of heaven. . . . Lunatics... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - 1906 - 750 sider
...Central '•' Tylor, Primitive Culture, ii. 130. Egyptians, an idiot or a fool is vulgarly regarded "as a being whose mind is in heaven, while his grosser...heaven. Whatever enormities a reputed saint may commit (and there are many who are constantly infringing precepts of their religion), such acts do not affect... | |
 | George Alexander Wilken - 1912 - 600 sider
...de Egyptenaren aan krankzinnigen bewezen wordt. „An idiot or a fooi is vulgarly regarded by them as a being whose mind is in heaven, while his grosser...part mingles among ordinary mortals; consequently, hè is considered an especial fa vourite of heaven. Whatever enormities a reputed saint may commit... | |
 | John Porter Brown - 1927 - 528 sider
...who are justly the least entitled to such respect. An idiot or a fool is vulgarly regarded by them as a being whose mind is in heaven, while his grosser...Heaven. Whatever enormities a reputed saint may commit (and there are many who are constantly infringing precepts of their religion), such acts do not affect... | |
 | William Graham Sumner, Albert Galloway Keller, Maurice Rea Davie - 1927 - 894 sider
...circumcision into a Mohammedan saint." In Egypt, again, "an idiot or a fool is vulgarly regarded by them as a being whose mind is in heaven, while his grosser...he is considered an especial favourite of heaven. . . . Most of the reputed saints of Egypt are either lunatics, or idiots." Some of them go naked and... | |
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