Prehistoric Antiquities of the Aryan Peoples: A Manual of Comparative Philology and the Earliest Culture. Being the "Sprachvergleichung und Urgeschichte" of Dr. O. Schrader

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C. Griffin, 1890 - 486 pagine

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Pagina 289 - Agri pro numero cultorum ab universis in vices occupantur, quos mox inter se secundum dignationem partiuntur. Facilitatem partiendi camporum spatia praestant ; arva per annos mutant, et superest ager.
Pagina 389 - Accisis crinibus, nudatam, coram propinquis, expellit domo maritus, ac per omnem vicum verbere agit : publicatae enim pudicitiae nulla venia : non forma, non aetate, non opibus maritum invenerit. Nemo enim illic vitia ridet : nee corrumpere et corrumpi saeculum vocatur.
Pagina 281 - The country which is now called Hellas was not regularly settled in ancient times. The people were migratory, and readily left their homes whenever they were overpowered by numbers. There was no commerce, and they could not safely hold intercourse with one another either by land or sea. The several tribes cultivated their own soil just enough to obtain a maintenance from it. But they had no accumulations of wealth, and did not plant the ground; for, being without walls, they were never sure that...
Pagina 286 - ... men who have not been accustomed to it from their childhood. The life of a pastoral race, on the contrary, is an almost unbroken holiday, and I can imagine nothing except the prospect of starvation which could induce men who live by their flocks and herds to make the transition to agricultural life. The prospect of starvation is, in fact, the cause of the transition — probably in all cases, and certainly in the case of the Bashkirs.
Pagina 25 - Latin duco, .and the transition of meaning would be the same as between " trahere," to draw, and " traire," to milk. Now, the name of milkmaid, given to the daughter of the house, opens before our eyes a little idyl of the poetical and pastoral life of the early Aryans. One of the few things by which the daughter, before she was married, might make herself useful in a nomadic, household, was the milking of the cattle, and it discloses a kind of delicacy and humor, even in the rudest state of society,...
Pagina 289 - Neque quisquam agri modum certum aut fines habet proprios ; sed magistratus ac principes in annos singulos gentibus cognationibusque hominum, qui una coierunt, quantum et quo loco visum est agri attribuunt atque anno post alio transire cogunt.
Pagina 214 - Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean...
Pagina 152 - Memmi. arma antiqua manus ungues dentesque fuerunt et lapides et item silvarum fragmina rami, et flamma atque ignes, postquam sunt cognita primum.

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