 | 1811 - 632 pages
...so much te gratify their appetite, as to perform a pious ceremony. Thus, when a man. become.; infirm and, weary of the world, he is said to invite his own children to eat him iu the season when salt aud limes are cheapest: he then ascends a tree, round which his fricuds aud... | |
 | 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 dirge, the import of which is, " the season is come — the fruit is ripe — and it must descend. " The victim... | |
 | Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) - 1811 - 600 pages
...so much to gratify their appetite, as to perform a pious ceremony. Thus, when a man becomes infirm and weary of the world, he is said to invite his own...they shake the tree, join in a funeral dirge, the import of which is, " The season is come, the fruit is ripe, and it must descend." The victim descends,... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan, Melvill Horne - 1811 - 266 pages
...so much to gratify their appetite, as to perform a pious ceremony. Thus, when a man becomes infirm and weary of the world, he is said to invite his own...as they shake the tree, join in a funeral dirge the import of which is, 'The season is come, the fruit is ripe, and it must descend.' The victim descends,... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - 1811 - 432 pages
...•* appetite, as to perform a pious ceremony. Thus, " when a man becomes infirm and weary of the u world, he is said to invite his own children to "...they shake the tree, join in a funeral " dirge, the import of which is, * The season. " is come, the fruit is ripe, and it must de» " scend.' The victim... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - 1811 - 302 pages
...appetite, as to perform a pious ceremony. Thus, when a man becomes infirm and weary of the world, he isx said to invite his own children to eat him in the...as they shake the tree, join in a funeral dirge the import of which is, 'The season is come, the fruit is ripe, and it must descend.' The victim descends,... | |
 | 1811 - 600 pages
...-Sumatra it is an approved custom, that ' when a man becomes infirm and weary of the world he invites his own children to eat him, in the season when salt...they shake the tree, join in a funeral dirge* the import of which is « the season is come—the fruit is ripe—and it must descend." The victim descends,... | |
 | Edward Moor - 1811 - 352 pages
...IndoChinese nations, in Vol. X. of the Asiatic Researches, relates, that " when a man becomes infirm and weary of the world, he is said to invite his own...In the season when salt and limes are cheapest, he ascends a tree, around which his offspring and friends assemble; and, shaking lhe tree, they join in... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - 1811 - 290 pages
...much to gratify their " appetite, as to perform a pious ceremony. Thus, " when a man becomes infirm and weary of the " world, he is said to invite his...in the season when salt and limes " are cheapest. .]ttfM.hen as^pnds a tree, round " which his friends 'and offspring assemble, and " as they shake the... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - 1812 - 382 pages
...not so much to gratify their appetite as to perform a pious ceremony. Thus, when a man becomes infirm and weary of the world, he is said to invite his own...they shake the tree, join in a funeral dirge, the import of which is, 'The season is come, the fruit is ripe, and it must descend.' The victim descends,... | |
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... that they frequently eat their own relations when aged and infirm, and that, not so much to gratify their appetite, as to perform a pious ceremony. Thus, when a man becomes infirm and weary of the world, he is said to invite his own children to eat... 
