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Download or read book The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine, Or Monthly Political and Literary Censor, Vol. 10 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine, or Monthly Political and Literary Censor, Vol. 10: From August to December (Inclusive, ) 1801; With an Appendix, Containing an Ample Review of Foreign Literature The Doctor obferves, that aufterities of no kind we're prefcribed in the Booksof Mofes. The Hebrews had only one prefcribed, day of falling in the whole year, and that not attended Wlll'l any particular aufierity. But did they fall on no other occafions i Is it not mani felt that they brought out of Egypt fo many of the religious auiteri ties, efpeciallyfaflz'ngs, with which Herodotus informs us that country abounded, that the burden of more would have been intolerable? We are indeed perfuaded, that the multitudinous becafrons on which the Hebrews and other' oriental nations were accultomed to wallow in fackcloth and alhes, produced that fingular refpeet for the afhes of cow-dung, which is found among the Hindoos. It muft be under flood, that in the eaft there has been in all ages an irremediable fear city of fuel. Hence the inhabitants of thofe countries are compelled to colleet the dung of cattle, and to dry it for the ufe of the hearth and oven. See a proof of the pralice in Ezek. Iv. 15. The perfon therefore who failed in afhes, ufed of necefiity afhes of cowqdung. If, then we are told that in the Hindoo ritual fuch alhes are thought to be of a holy. Nature, we can readily account for that reverence with which the Hmdoo fprinkles them on his forehead, (boulders, and brealt. The Hebrew and Egyptian, whom he imitates, were accuf temed to do the fame. Nor can we draw a more lively pieture of the failing Hebrew, than we here find in the Hindoo; who, taking afhee in both hands, 'direets his thoughts to God, and befmears his head with them and, as he wafhes, tings a hymn of praife. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.