The Parsees: Their History, Manners, Customs, and Religion

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Smith, Elder and Company, 1858 - 286 trang
 

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Trang 128 - ... such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time, and such witnesses shall attest and shall subscribe the will in the presence of the testator, but no form of attestation shall be necessary.
Trang 128 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner herein-after mentioned ; (that is to say,) it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction...
Trang 165 - Their universal kindness, either in employing such as are needy and able to work, or bestowing a seasonable bounteous charity to such as are infirm and miserable; leave no man destitute of relief, nor suffer a beggar in all their tribe; and herein so far comply with that excellent rule of Pythagoras, to enjoy a kind of community among friends.
Trang 262 - Each of these had the power of creation, but that power was exercised with opposite designs ; and it was from their co-action that an admixture of good and evil was found in every created thing.
Trang 193 - You know full well the state of misery in which many of our people are living, and the hopeless ignorance in which their children are permitted to grow up. My object is to create a fund, the interest of which shall be applied towards relieving the indigent of our people and the education of their children, and I now propose to invest the sum of Es.
Trang 18 - he is an old soldier, and will fight as long as a drop of blood remains in his veins.
Trang 192 - Fund," and to be vested in trustees for the purpose of being appropriated in defraying the expenses of translating into the Goozerattee language such books from the European and Asiatic languages, whether ancient or modern, as may be approved of by the Committee, to be by them published and distributed gratis, or at a low price, among the Parsee community, in furtherance of the education of our people, of which you have ever been a warm friend and zealous patron.
Trang 258 - ... the truest symbol of the evil god, and light the truest symbol of the good god. And therefore they always worshipped him before fire, as being the cause of light, and especially before the sun, as being in their opinion the perfectest fire, and causing the perfectest light.
Trang 167 - At the lower part of the shield is a landscape scene in India, intended to represent a part of the island of Bombay, with the islands of Salsette and Elephanta in the distance. The sun is seen rising from behind Salsette to denote industry, and in diffusing its light and heat displaying liberality. The upper part of the shield has a white ground to denote integrity and purity, on which are placed two bees representing industry and perseverance.
Trang 68 - Zoroaster is the true Prophet, who derived his mission from God." At the fourth and last : " Perform good actions, and abstain from those that are evil.

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