| Henry Austin - 1893 - 1082 pàgines
...creature, a snake, or of a slave, or one with any name raising an image of terror. Let him choose for a wife a girl whose form has no defect ; who has an agreeable name ; who walks gracefully, like a young elephant (strange comparison !) ; whose teeth are small, whose hair is moderate in quantity,... | |
| Joseph Edwin Padfield - 1896 - 366 pàgines
...hair or with too much ; nor one immoderately talkative ; nor one with inflamed eyes." Let him choose for his wife a girl whose form has no defect ; who...young elephant ; whose hair and teeth are moderate respectively in quality and in size ; whose body has exquisite softness. (Manu III. 8, 80). It may... | |
| 1902 - 718 pàgines
...winged creature, a snake, or a slave; nor with any name raising an image of terror. Let him choose for his wife a girl, whose form has no defect ; who...has an agreeable name, who walks gracefully like a phenicopterous, or like a young elephant; whose hair nnd teeth arc moderate as respects quantity and... | |
| 1902 - 740 pàgines
...créature, a snake, or a slave; nor with any name raisingan image of terror. Let him choose for bis wife a girl, whose form has no defect ; who has an agreeable name, who walks gracefully like a phenicopterous, or like a young éléphant; whose hair and teeth are moderate as respects quantity... | |
| 1903 - 984 pàgines
...sickness, nor one with too much or too little hair, nor one immoderately talkative. Let him choose a girl whose form has no defect, who has an agreeable name, who walks gracefully like a young elephant, whose hair and teeth are moderate in size and quality, and whose body has exquisite... | |
| Stephen Haley Allen - 1916 - 1238 pàgines
...a mountain, of a winged creature, a snake or a slave; nor with any name raising an image of terror. 10. "Let him chuse for his wife a girl, whose form...has an agreeable name; who walks gracefully like a plenicopteros, or like a young elephant; whose hair and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity... | |
| Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1993 - 308 pàgines
...members have been subject to hereditary disease. Let a person choose for his wife a girl whose person has no defect; who has an agreeable name ; who walks gracefully, like a young elephant; whose hair and teeth are moderate in quantity and in size ; and whose body is of exquisite... | |
| Thomas Robert Maltus - 2006 - 325 pàgines
...excluded; and the choice will appear to be in some degree confined when it must necessarily rest upon a girl " whose form has no defect; who has an agreeable...name; who walks gracefully, like a phenicopteros or a young elephant; whose hair and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity and size; whose body has... | |
| Thomas Robert Malthus - 2013 - 325 pàgines
...excluded ; and the choice will appear to be in some degree confined when it must necessarily rest upon a girl " whose form has no defect; who has an agreeable...name; who walks gracefully, like a phenicopteros or a young elephant; whose hair and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity and size; whose body has... | |
| G.C. Haughton - 412 pàgines
...creature, a snake, or a slave ; ' nor with any name raising an image of terror. i 10. ' Let him choose for his wife a girl, whose form ' has no defect ;...softness. 11. 'Her, who has no brother, or whose father is ' not well known, let no sensible man espouse, through ' fear lest, in the former case, her father... | |
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