Female Scripture Biography, Volume II: Including an Essay on What Christianity Has Done for WomenCox, F. A. (Francis Augustus)
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Female Scripture Biography, Volume II: Including an Essay on What Christianity Has Done for Women
Cox, F. A. (Francis Augustus)
Bible -- Biography; Women -- Religious life; Women in the Bible
[82]: A person with such diseases, accidents, or sins cannot have the rite
of burning his body performed till an offering of atonement has been made,
which qualifies him for having his obsequies performed; viz. _Dahon_
or burning (in which case the wife may die with him,) and the
_Shraddha_, or _Pinda_. This, however, does not gain such on one
admission into bliss, which is only done by the _Sahemaron_, or the
wife's dying with him.
[83]: Bap. Period. Accounts, vol. i. No. 6, p. 473-476.
[84]: Bapt. Period. Accounts, No. xvii. p. 324.
[85]: Cordiner's Description of Ceylon, vol. ii. p. 16.
[86]: History of Sumatra, 4to. 1811, p. 257, 381, 382.
[87]: Vogel, p. 649. Voyages des Hollandois, i. 349.
[88]: Turnbull's Voyage round the World, p. 6.
[89]: Turnbull, p. 11.
[90]: Malcolm's History of Persia, vol. ii. p. 333, 434, 455, 4to. 1815.
[91]: Sale's Koran, vol. ii. p. 79, _n_. and 472, _n_.
[92]: Malcolm's History of Persia, vol. i. p. 173, _n_.
[93]: Dampier, ii. p. 6. 86. Forster's Voyage, i. p. 212. ii. p. 71.
Meiners, vol. i. p. 80.
[94]: Arvieux, i. p. 229, 230. Meiners, vol. i. p. 96.
[95]: Lewis and Clark's Travels up the Missouri, p. 33, 34. 4to. 1814.
[96]: Seventh Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1811, p. 59.
[97]: Some Account of New Zealand, 1807, p. 13.
[98]: Maggil's Account of Tunis, p. 92.
[99]: Jackson's Account of the Empire of Morocco, 4to, 1809, p. 152.
[100]: Brown's Travels in Africa, &c. 2d ed. 4to. 1806, p. 335, 339.
[101]: Park's Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, Sic. 4to. 1799,
p. 39.
[102]: Durand's Voyage to Senegal, p. 104, 105.
[103]: Park's Travels, p. 157.
[104]: Park's Travels, p. 226, 267.
[105]: Park's Travels p. 347.
[106]: Barrow's Travels in Southern Africa, second edit. 1806, vol. i. p.
159.
[107]: Barrow's Travels, vol. i. p. 206.
[108]: Dampier, ii. p. 86.
[109]: Des Marchais, ii. p. 178.
[110]: Labat, ii. p. 299. Adanson, p. 32. Oldendorp, i. p. 376.
[111]: Meiners, i. p. 52--54.
[112]: Cavazzi, ii. p. 123. Meiners, i. p. 59, 69. See also Rees's
Cyclopædie, and Encyclop. Brit, under the word's _Ansiko,
Anthropophagi, Batta_. Marsden's Hist, of Sumatra, 3d ed. 4to. 1811, p.
390-395, & 463.
[113]: This subject has been already more than once remarked upon this
work. See vol. i. p. 21 and 255.
[114]: Paley's Mor. Philos. vol. i. p. 3. ch. vi. & vii.
[115]: Plutarch in Rom. I. p. 123. Livy II. p. 13, 40.
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