A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England: From the Establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the Present Time : Illustrated by Engravings Taken from the Most Authentic Remains of Antiquity : to which is Prefixed an Introduction, Containing a General Description of the Ancient Habits in Use Among Mankind, from the Earliest Period of Time to the Conclusion of the Seventh Century, Volumen1

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H.G. Bohn, 1842

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Página x - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Página lxxv - Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things ; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour : and this was a testimony in Israel.
Página lxxiv - And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour...
Página lxxiv - And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck...
Página lxxii - Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.
Página lxxii - So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Página lv - And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning "work.
Página 30 - which covered his feet are remaining to this day, the soles of wood, and the upper parts of red leather, laced together with thongs. They were so closely fitted to the feet, that the order of the toes, terminating in a point at the great toe, might easily be discovered ; so that the shoe belonging to the right foot could not be put upon the left, nor that of the left upon the right.
Página xxxiii - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart : and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
Página xxxvii - The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

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