 | Thomas Robbins - 1824 - 494 pages
...[here a number of diseases are mentioned.] Let a person choose for his wife 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 respectively in quantity and in size ; whose body... | |
 | Manu (Lawgiver) - Hindu law - 1825 - 490 pages
...with any name raising an image of terrour. 10. ' Let him chuse for his wife a girl, whose form ' has no defect ; who has an agreeable name ; who ' walks...like a phenicopteros, or like a young ' elephant; whose hair and teeth are moderate respec' tively in quantity and in size ; whose body has ex • '... | |
 | Manu (Lawgiver) - Brahmans - 1825 - 488 pages
...with any name raising an image of terrour. 10. ' Let him chuse for his wife a girl, whose form ' has no defect ; who has an agreeable name ; who ' walks...gracefully like a phenicopteros, or like a young ' elephant ; whose hair and teeth are moderate respec' tively in quantity and in size ; whose body has ex •... | |
 | Geography - 1834 - 444 pages
...nor one 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 phenicopteros or like a young elephant ; whose hair and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity and size, whose body has an exquisite... | |
 | Hindus - Hindus - 1834 - 444 pages
...nor one 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 phenicopteros or like a young elephant ; whose hair and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity and size, whose body has an exquisite... | |
 | Alexander Duff - Hinduism - 1839 - 716 pages
...positive and negative forms. He is enjoined to espouse for his wife, " a girl, whose form has no defects ; who has an agreeable name ; who walks gracefully like a phenicopteros ; or like a young elephant ; whose hair and teeth are moderate, respectively in quantity and in size." He is strictly prohibited... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1843 - 560 pages
...his instructor, to commence house-keeping,— " Let him choose for his wife a girl, whose form has no defect; who has an agreeable name; who walks gracefully, like a phenicopteros, or like a young elephant; whose hair and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity and in size; whose body has exquisite softness."... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1843 - 564 pages
...his instructor, to commence house-keeping, — "Let him choose for his wife a girl, whose form has no defect ; who has an agreeable name ; who walks...gracefully, like a phenicopteros, or like a young elephant; whose hair and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity and in size ; whose body has exquisite softness."... | |
 | Thomas Low Nichols - Religions - 1855 - 138 pages
...left his instructor, to commence house-keeping — Let him choose for his wife a girl, whose form has no defect ; who has an agreeable name ; who walks...gracefully, like a phenicopteros, or like a young elephant; wbpse hair and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity and in size ; whose body has exquisite softness.... | |
 | Stephen Watson Fullom - Women - 1855 - 428 pages
...important subject. " Let a person choose for his wife," says the reverend scribe, " a maid, whose form has no defect, who has an agreeable name, who walks gracefully like a young elephant, whose hair is moderate in quantity, and whose teeth are of reasonable size." Not a... | |
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Let him chuse for his wife a girl, whose form has no defect ; who has an agreeable name ; who walks gracefully like a phenicopteros, or like a young elephant ; whose hair and teeth are moderate respectively in quantity and in size ; whose body has exquisite... 
