Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 Excerpt: ...a lover secretly embraces the damsel "either sleeping, or flushed with strong liquor, disordered in her intellects, "that sinful marriage called Paisacha is the basest." (Laws of Menu.) The name of a Bride too in Persian appears under the same form, lw Pyokan, as we have seen the terms for the Womb, Pukan, or Pugan, and we have likewise the simpler form Sjm Ptok, bearing the same meaning.--We shall here be reminded of the Greek Phos, Phot-os, (ws, $ftTos, Vir, ) Posis, (Ilotm, Maritus, ) and of the English sPousE, though the kindred words appear under the form Sponsus, and Sponsa, which cannot well be understood, till the form PN shall have been unfolded. The Race of words, which I have here endeavoured to illustrate, pervades the whole range of Human Speech; yet the Examples which I have already produced, will be sufficient to communicate to us a due notion of the various turns of meaning, which these words are found to contain. vv Ords containing ideas, such as are expressed by the terms Pash, Push, Poke, Pike, sPiKE, Pitch, Put, iriFix, Fix, Pat, Patter, Beat, Batter, &c. which belong to the action of PA.smng, Pusuing, J?ix.ing, PvTring, PATTERZHg, &c. &c. among Pash, or Pudge matter, considered under a twofold division. 1st. Terms, relating to the sense of Pusning, PoKing, inFixing, Fixing, under the idea of what we express by Sticking into any thing, or together, as into, or among Sticky, or Pudge matter, in a state of Consistency, Tenacity, so that an object may remain iwFixED, or Fixed. 2ndly. Terms, relating to the action of Psning, Pvsuing, BEAT/wg, BATTERiwg1, where the idea of tenacity does not appear, but rather that' of making some Impression, or Impact, by Striking upon an object with various degrees of force, sometime...