 | Missions - 1811 - 632 pages
...season when salt aud limes are cheapest: he then ascends a tree, round which his fricuds aud oSspriiig assemble, and, as they shake the tree, join in a funeral dirge, the import r H, "The season is coroc, the fruit is borough. We have been settled ripe, and it mail descend:" the... | |
 | 1810 - 538 pages
...season when sah and limes are cheapest. He then Ascends % trea, round which his friends and nlupTin'T assemble; and. as they shake the tree, join in a funeral...it must descend. " The victim descends ; and those that are nearest ami dearest >to him,- deprive him of lite, and devour his remain.* in a solemn banquet.... | |
 | Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) - Asia - 1811 - 600 pages
...world, he is said to invite his own children to eat him, in the season when salt and limes are cheapest. He then ascends a tree, round which his friends and...and it must descend." The victim descends, and those that are nearest and dearest to him, deprive him of life, and devour his remains in a solemn banquet.... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - Sermons - 1811 - 302 pages
...world, he isx said to invite his own children to eat him in the season when salt and limes are cheapest. He then ascends a tree, round which his friends and...and it must descend.' The victim descends, and those that are nearest and dearest to him deprive him of life, and 'devour his remains in a solemn banquet."*... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan, Melvill Horne - Asia - 1811 - 266 pages
...world, he is said to invite his own children to eat him in the season when salt and limes are cheapest. He then ascends a tree, round which his friends and...and it must descend.' The victim descends, and those that are nearest and dearest to him deprive him of life, and devour his remains in a solemn banquet."*... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - Asia - 1811 - 432 pages
...he is said to invite his own children to " eat him in the season when salt and limes * are cheapest. He then ascends a tree, round " which his friends...season. " is come, the fruit is ripe, and it must de» " scend.' The victim descends, and those thai •' are nearest and dearest to him deprive him.... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - Asia - 1811 - 304 pages
...he is said to invite his own children to " eat him in the season when salt and limes " are cheapest. He then ascends a tree, round " which his friends...The season " is come, the fruit is ripe, and it must de" scend.' The victim descends, and those that " are nearest and dearest to him deprive him " of life... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - Asia - 1811 - 290 pages
...his own children to " eat him in the season when salt and limes " are cheapest. .]ttfM.hen as^pnds a tree, round " which his friends 'and offspring assemble,...The season " is come, the fruit is ripe, and it must de" scend.' The victim descends, and those that " are nearest and dearest to him deprive him " of life... | |
 | 1811 - 600 pages
...of the world he invites his own children to eat him, in the season when salt and limes are cheapest. He then ascends a tree, round which his friends and...funeral dirge* the import of which is « the season is come—the fruit is ripe—and it must descend." The victim descends, and those who are nearest and... | |
 | Edward Moor - 1811 - 352 pages
...friends assemble; and, shaking lhe tree, they join in a dirge, the burthen of which is this, — ' The season is come; — the fruit is ripe, and it must descend.' — The victim descends; and those that are nearest and dearest to him deprive him of life, and devour his remains in a solemn banquet."... | |
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... ceremony. Thus, when a man becomes infirm and weary of the world, he is said to invite his own children to eat him in the season when salt and limes are cheapest. He then ascends a tree, round which his friends and offspring assemble, and as they... 
