 | Marco Polo - 1871 - 624 pàgines
...Saracens. The Idolaters have a peculiar language, and are no traders, but live by their agriculture.1 They have a great many abbeys and minsters full of...at the New Year, or on the day of the Idol's Feast, they will take their children and the sheep along with them into the presence of the idol with great... | |
 | Edward Henry Bickersteth (bp. of Exeter) - 1872 - 830 pàgines
...amounting to 479 condemned by the Bishop of Geneva. Very odd sounds such a sentence as the following : " They have a great many abbeys and minsters full of...worshipping them and sacrificing to them with much ado." Some wretched idolaters came to the Khan and asked leave to resume some enormities which he had ordered... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 862 pàgines
...Saracens. The Idolaters have a peculiar language, and are no traders, but live by their agriculture.3 They have a great many abbeys and minsters full of...at the New Year, or on the day of the Idol's Feast, they will take their children and the sheep along with them into the presence of the idol with great... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 730 pàgines
...Saracens. The Idolaters have a peculiar language, and are no traders, but live by their agriculture.3 They have a great many abbeys and minsters full of...at the New Year, or on the day of the Idol's Feast, they will take their children and the sheep along with them into the presence of the idol with great... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 672 pàgines
...Saracens. The Idolaters have a peculiar language, and are no traders, but live by their agriculture.3 They have a great many abbeys and minsters full of...at the New Year, or on the day of the Idol's Feast, they will take their children and the sheep along with them into the presence of the idol with great... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1903 - 828 pàgines
...Saracens. The Idolaters have a peculiar language, and are no traders, but live by their agriculture.2 They have a great many abbeys and minsters full of...at the New Year, or on the day of the Idol's Feast, they will take their children and the sheep along with them into the presence of the idol with great... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1903 - 812 pàgines
...by their agriculture.2 They have a rreat many abbeys and minsters full of idols of sundry 'ash ions, to which they pay great honour and reverence, worshipping them and sacrificing to them with much ado. example, such as have children will feed up a sheep CHAPTER XL. CONCERNING THF, GREAT PROVINCE OF TANGUT.... | |
 | Sir Aurel Stein - 1912 - 808 pàgines
...' Sachiu,' ie Tunhuang, a long account of the strange idolatrous customs of the people of Tangut. " The Idolaters have a peculiar language, and are no...worshipping them and sacrificing to them with much ado," and so on. Tun-huang manifestly had managed to retain its traditions of Buddhist piety down to Marco's... | |
 | Carl Clemen - 1916 - 192 pàgines
...oon ben Beroob,nern oon Œangut berietet (I) ule, The Book of Ser Marco Polo I, 1871. 21875, 207): such as have children will feed up a sheep in honour...at the New Year, or on the day of the Idol's Feast, they will take their children and the sheep along with them into the presence of the idol with great... | |
 | Henri Cordier, Marco Polo - 1920 - 182 pàgines
...Sachiu belonging to a province called Tangut. “The people are for the most part Idolaters. . . . The Idolaters have a peculiar language, and are no...worshipping them and sacrificing to them with much ado.” Sachiu, or rather Tun Hwang, is celebrated for its “Caves of Thousand Buddhas”; Sir Aurel Stein... | |
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Feast, they will take their children and the sheep along with them into the presence of the idol with great ceremony. Then they will have the sheep slaughtered and cooked, and again present it before the idol with... 
