 | Christianity - 1852 - 514 pages
...feet : for this reason, when he intends to go anywhere, he must be carried thither on men's shoulders. Much less will they suffer, that he should expose his sacred person to the open air ; and the sun is not thought worthy to shine on his head. There is such a holiness ascribed to all... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Japan - 1852 - 418 pages
...feet : for this reason, when he intends to go anywhere, he must be carried thither on men's shoulders. Much less will they suffer, that he should expose his sacred person to the open air; and the sun is not thought worthy to shine on his head. There is such a holiness ascribed to all parts... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1852 - 892 pages
...feet ; for this reason, when he wants to go anywhere, he must be carried thither on men's shoulders. Much less will they suffer, that he should expose his sacred person to the open air ; and the sun is not thought worthy to shine on his head. There is such a holiness ascribed to all... | |
 | Talbot Watts - Japan - 1852 - 406 pages
...feet: for this reason, when he intends to go anywhere, he must be carried thither on men's shoulders. Much less will they suffer, that he should expose his sacred person to the open air; and the sun is not thought worthy to shine on his head. There is such a holiness ascribed to all parts... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Japan - 1852 - 474 pages
...feet : for this reason, when he intends to go anywhere, he must be carried thither on men's shoulders. Much less will they suffer, that he should expose his sacred person to the open air ; and the sun is not thought worthy to shine on his head. There is such a holiness ascribed to all... | |
 | George baron Anson - 1853 - 660 pages
...feet ; for this reason, when ho intends to go anywhere, he must bo carried thither on men's shoulders. Much less will they suffer, that he should expose his sacred person to the open air, and the sun is not thought worthy to shine on his head. There is such a bolinees ascribed to all the... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Japan - 1856 - 396 pages
...feet : for this reason, when he intends to go anywhere, he must be carried thither on men's shoulders. Much less will they suffer, that he should expose his sacred person to the open air; and the sun is not thought worthy to shine on his head. There is such a holiness ascribed to all parts... | |
 | James George Frazer - Dying and rising gods - 1890 - 436 pages
...feet ; for this reason, when he intends to go anywhere, he must be carried thither on men's shoulders. Much less will they suffer that he should expose his sacred person to the open air, and the sun is not thought worthy to shine on his head. There is such a holiness ascribed to all the... | |
 | Plutarch - Folklore - 1892 - 310 pages
...The Flamen, according to Plutarch (RQ 40), was forbidden to anoint his body in the open air, ie sul Jove; and of the Mikado we are told, "Much less will...that he should expose his sacred person to the open air."J The Flamen was forbidden to touch * Golden Sough, ch. ii. t Rom. Mythol?, i. 201. meal or raw... | |
 | James MacDonald - Africa - 1893 - 284 pages
...feet; for this reason, when he intends to go anywhere he must be carried thither on men's shoulders. Much less will they suffer that he should expose his sacred person to the open air, and the sun is not thought worthy to shine on his head. There is such a holiness ascribed to all the... | |
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He thinks that it would be very prejudicial to his dignity and holiness to touch the ground with his feet ; for this reason, when he intends to go anywhere, he must be carried thither on men's shoulders. Much less will they suffer that he should expose... 
