 | Stephen Haley Allen - 1916 - 1264 pàgines
...the Veda, and by rigorous mortifications, men obtain, even in this life, the state of beatitude. 76. "A mansion with bones for its rafters and beams ;...blood, for mortar; with skin for its outward covering; filled with no sweet perfume, but loaded with feces and urine; 77. "A mansion infested by age and by... | |
 | 1851 - 644 pàgines
..."Anatomy of Old Age." A very ancient eastern writer thus fancifully describes the body of man : — " A mansion, with bones for its rafters and beams; with...muscles and blood for mortar; with skin for its outward coveting; filled with no sweet perfume." It is in the first of these pnrts — in the rafters and beams... | |
 | Robert Southey - 720 pàgines
...the fowls of the air greedily prey upon the one, the vermin of the earth eagerly devour the other." with muscles and blood for mortar ; with skin for its outward covering ; filled with no sweet perfume, but loaded with feces and urine ; a mansion infested by age and by... | |
 | G.C. Haughton - 412 pàgines
...Veda, ' and by rigorous mortifications, men obtain, even in ' this life, the state of beatitude. 76. ' A mansion with bones for its rafters and beams ; '...and ' blood, for mortar ; with skin, for its outward cover' ing ; filled with no sweet perfume, but loaded with ' feces and urine ; 77. ' A mansion infested... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1797 - 552 pàgines
...them. The contempt for the body is strongly expressed in the following passage of the Institutes: " A mansion with bones, for its rafters and beams; with...nerves and tendons, for cords; with muscles and blood, * " Thus every day presenting new platforms of wickedness, and sins that made a noise, God grew angry,... | |
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A mansion with bones for its rafters and beams ; with nerves and tendons for cords ; with muscles and blood for mortar ; with skin for its outward covering; filled with no sweet perfume, but loaded with... 
