 | Geography - 1835 - 430 pages
...Oriental Memoirs, vol. ip 221, 222. which his friends and offspring 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 descends, and those that are nearest and dearest to him, deprive him of... | |
 | Hindus - 1835 - 434 pages
...Oriental Memoir*, vol. ip 221, 222. which his friends and offspring 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 descends, and those that are nearest and dearest to him, deprive him of... | |
 | London anthropological society - 804 pages
...then ascends a tree, round which his friends and offspring assemble, and as they shake the tree they join in a funeral dirge, the import of which is, ' The season is come, the ftuit i» ripe, and it muet descend.' The victim descends, and those that are nearest and deaiest to... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 566 pages
...which his friends and descendants assemble, and the whole of them join in singing a dirge, the burthen of which is 'The season is come, the fruit is ripe, and it must descend.' The victim then descends, is deprived of life, and his remains are devoured in a... | |
 | 1835 - 550 pages
...which his friends and descendants assemble, and the whole of them join in singing a dirge, the burthen of which is 'The season is come, the fruit is ripe, and it must descend." The victim then descends, is deprived oflife, and his remains are devoured in a solemn... | |
 | Great Britain - 1853 - 572 pages
...round which his friends and offspring 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 descends, and those that are nearest and dearest to him deprive him of... | |
 | Jesse Appleton - Congregational churches - 1837 - 562 pages
...He then ascends a tree, around which his friends and offspring 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 he must descend." " The victim descends ; and those who are nearest and dearest to him deprive him... | |
 | 1853 - 588 pages
...He then ascends a tree, round which his friends and offspring 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 desend.' The victim descends, and those that are nearest and dearest to him, deprive him of... | |
 | American literature - 1860 - 620 pages
...then ascends' a tree, round which his friends and offspring 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 descends, and those that are nearest and dearest to him deprive him of... | |
 | Samuel Bagster - Bible - 1848 - 548 pages
...He then ascends a tree. round which his friends and oflspring 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 desceñe, and those that are nearest and dearest to him deprive him of... | |
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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 shake the tree,... 
