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... Chiefs instruction in riding , shooting with the bow , swimming , and chess - playing , and instruction to their daughters ... chief literary profession . He took payment , but it was the law which settled it for him . It was part of his ...
... Chiefs instruction in riding , shooting with the bow , swimming , and chess - playing , and instruction to their daughters ... chief literary profession . He took payment , but it was the law which settled it for him . It was part of his ...
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... chief who , questioned as to the fortunes of a fellow - tribesman . long ago well known to the enquirer , answered , ' He gave us so much good advice that we put him • mercifully to death . ' The reply , if CHAP . I. 23 THE SACRED LAWS ...
... chief who , questioned as to the fortunes of a fellow - tribesman . long ago well known to the enquirer , answered , ' He gave us so much good advice that we put him • mercifully to death . ' The reply , if CHAP . I. 23 THE SACRED LAWS ...
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... chief drawbacks on the historical usefulness of the sacred Hindu laws . In the course of their growth they have probably absorbed much customary law from without ; but even in the earliest of them it probably has been changed in ...
... chief drawbacks on the historical usefulness of the sacred Hindu laws . In the course of their growth they have probably absorbed much customary law from without ; but even in the earliest of them it probably has been changed in ...
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... chief still watches over his own tribe , still holds his autho- rity , by helping friends and harming enemies , still rewards the right and sharply punishes the wrong . ' Ancestor - worship , the worship of father , grand- father , and ...
... chief still watches over his own tribe , still holds his autho- rity , by helping friends and harming enemies , still rewards the right and sharply punishes the wrong . ' Ancestor - worship , the worship of father , grand- father , and ...
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... chief is seen to have finally departed for the spirit - world , is to provide him with food and drink , perhaps with arms , ornaments , and attendants , for his new home , which is to be so like his old one . In these impulses the ...
... chief is seen to have finally departed for the spirit - world , is to provide him with food and drink , perhaps with arms , ornaments , and attendants , for his new home , which is to be so like his old one . In these impulses the ...
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