Tom Tit Tot: An Essay on Savage Philosophy in Folk-taleDuckworth and Company, 1898 - 249 pages |
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Page 184 - The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth ; When there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth...
Page 177 - And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him : as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.
Page 127 - And he said, thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel : for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Page 199 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.
Page 127 - Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham ; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
Page 127 - And the Lord said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.
Page 168 - And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?
Page 16 - An' that stretched out that's black hands at her. Well, she backed a step or two, an' she looked at it, and then she laughed out, an' says she, a pointin' of her finger at it: " Nimmy nimmy not Yar name's Tom Tit Tot.
Page 99 - And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the Lord spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water. Then Israel sang this song, SPRING up, O well; sing ye unto it...
Page 10 - The king he were a comin' down the street an' he hard her sing, but what she sang he couldn't hare, so he stopped and said — ' What were that you was a singun of, maw'r ? ' The woman, she were ashamed to let him hare what her darter had been a doin', so she sang, 'stids o' that— My darter ha' spun five, five skeins to-day — My darter ha' spun five, five skeins to-day.