 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 páginas
...with the government of the family. The manumission of a son, or a slave, was performed by turning him round with a gentle blow on the cheek : a work was...introduced into every payment; and the heir who accepted a testament was sometimes obliged to snap his fingers, to cast away his garments, and to leap and dance... | |
 | William Chambers - 1830 - 554 páginas
...with the government of a family. The manumission of a son, or a slave, was performed by turning him round with a gentle blow on the cheek ; a work was...and scales were introduced into every payment ; and tbe heir who accepted a testament was sometimes obliged to snap his fingers, to cast away his garments,... | |
 | Jean Louis de Lolme, Archibald John Stephens - 1838 - 674 páginas
...with the government of the family. The manumission of a son, or a slave, was performed by turning him round with a gentle blow on the cheek ; a work was...introduced into every payment, and the heir who accepted a testament, was sometimes obliged to snap his fingers, to cast away his garments, and to leap and... | |
 | Samuel Laing - 1850 - 622 páginas
...with the government of the family. The manumission of a son or a slave was performed by turning him round with a gentle blow on the cheek ; a work was...introduced into every payment ; and the heir who accepted a testament, was sometimes obliged to snap his fingers, to cast away his garments, and to leap and... | |
 | Samuel Laing - 1850 - 594 páginas
...with the government of the family. The manumission of a son or a slave was performed by turning him round with a gentle blow on the cheek ; a work was...introduced into every payment ; and the heir who accepted a testament, was sometimes obliged to snap his fingers, to cast away his garments, and to leap and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 440 páginas
...with the government of the family. The manumission of a son or a slave was performed by turning him round with a gentle blow on the cheek ; a work was...introduced into every payment ; and the heir who accepted a testament was sometimes obliged to snap his fingers, to cast away his garments, and to leap and dance... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1855 - 774 páginas
...with the government of the family. The mannmission of a son, or a slave, was performed by turning him round with a gentle blow on the cheek : a work was...; the clenched fist was the symbol of a pledge or deposite ; the right hand was the gift of faith and confidence. The indenture of covenants was a broken... | |
 | 1871 - 530 páginas
...prescription was Interrupted by the breaking of 4 branch; the clenched fist was the symbol of a pledge or a deposit; the right hand was the gift of faith and...Introduced Into every payment, and the heir who accepted a testament was sometimes obliged to snap his lingers, to cast away his garments, and to leap and dance... | |
 | Thomas Whitcombe Greene - 1872 - 262 páginas
...with the government of the family. The manumission of a son or a slave was performed by turning him round with a gentle blow on the cheek ; a work was...the right hand was the gift of faith and confidence In a civil action, the plaintiff touched the ear of his witness, seized his reluctant adversary by... | |
 | Thomas Whitcombe Greene - 1872 - 258 páginas
...of the family. The manumission of a son or a slave was performed by turning him round with agentle blow on the cheek ; a work was prohibited by the casting...symbol of a pledge or deposit ; the right hand was thegift of faith and confidence In a civil action, the plaintiff touched the ear of his witness,, seized... | |
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... the clenched fist was the symbol of a pledge or deposit ; the right hand was the gift of faith and confidence. The indenture of covenants was a broken straw ; weights and scales were introduced into every payment; and the heir who accepted a testament... 
