The wise man abstains from them entirely; he pays attention to his diet, and in other respects leaves nature to her course.
That man who abstains from meat, is never put in fear, O king, by any creature, wherever he may be, viz.
The man who abstains from one meal every day throughout the month called Margasirsha, should, with reverence and devotion, feed a number of Brahmanas.
He who abstains from eating till Brahmanas have eaten (of that food), is regarded as conquering heaven by such abstention.
The man that abstains from cruelty is the father and mother of all creatures.
He that undergoes severe austerities for a hundred years and he that abstains from meat, are both equal in point of merit.
He who, according to this rule, abstains from eating meat is said to be cleansed in a threefold way.
He who abstains from meat for the four months of the rains acquires the four valued blessings of achievements, longevity, fame and might.
Vrihaspati has said that that man who abstains from honey and meat acquires the merit of gifts and sacrifices and penances.
The man that abstains from cruelty is regarded as always performing sacrifices.
Bhishma said, 'He who takes food only morning and evening at the prescribed hours and abstains from all food during the interval between, is said to be an abstainer from food.
That man who having eaten flesh abstainsfrom it afterwards, attains to great merit in consequence of such abstention from sin.
The chief mourner avoids social intercourse and abstains from ordinary work and from all kinds of amusements.
Grotius's several journeys to court, and his negotiations with the French ministry: abstains from visiting cardinal Richelieu IX.
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.
The reason that the pious Jew abstains from pork leads to the consideration of Totemism as found in the Old Testament.
The pious Jew abstainsfrom pork because his remote ancestors, five or six thousand years before our era, had the wild boar as their totem.
It does not kill or injure anything that has life, and even abstains from dead birds from its relationship to them.
We do not call it a virtue if a man habitually abstains from killing or robbing, or pays his debts, or performs a great number of other duties.
In China even a messenger who delivers tidings of death strictly abstains from passing the threshold of the houses at which he knocks, unless urgently requested by the inmates to walk in.
Marriage seems to them indispensable, and a person who abstains from it is looked upon as an unnatural being and is disdained.
Among the Stlatlumh, for instance, {308} when a girl reaches puberty, she fasts for the first four days andabstains from fresh meats of any kind throughout the whole period of her seclusion.
He who keeps the Sabbath rigorouslyabstains from all food between sunrise and sunset, and, as no cooking must be done during the Uposatha, he prepares his evening meal in the early morning before the rise of the sun.
In the moment when a murderer kills his victim he is fulfilling an endless number of duties: he abstains from stealing, lying, committing adultery, suicide, and so on.
Of the Ainu in Japan we are told that "to drink for the god" is their chief act of worship; the more saké they drink the more devout they are, whereas the gods will be angry with a person who abstains from the intoxicating drink.
Again, we have seen that a Toumbuluh man abstainsnot only from tying knots, but also from sitting with crossed legs during his wife's pregnancy.
In other words, he abstains from doing that which, in accordance with his mistaken notions of cause and effect, he falsely believes would injure him; in short, he subjects himself to a taboo.
This last rule is an instance of the things which the hunter abstains from doing lest, on the principle that like produces like, they should spoil his luck.
The condition of the neutralisation is that the neutralised State abstains from any hostile action, and further from any international engagement which could indirectly[153] drag it into hostilities against any other State.
Footnote 625: But there is, as far as I know, no civilised State in existence which abstains altogether from naturalising foreigners.
Accordingly during this time she abstains from cooking; for were she to cook food, not only the victuals themselves but the pot and the fire would be tabooed, so that nobody could eat the victuals, or use the pot, or warm himself at the fire.
M181) Again, we have seen that a Toumbuluh man abstains not only from tying knots, but also from sitting with crossed legs during his wife's pregnancy.
For he does not deserve to be accounted a virtuous or a just man who abstains from injustice in order to avoid suffering evil.
While giving the opinions of these above-named sects with great fairness and impartiality Cicero abstainsthroughout from pronouncing any judgment of his own.
Conjugal chastity uses venereal pleasures moderately and virtuously; virginity abstains from them entirely and virtuously.
Which do you think is the most temperate Person, he that is sitting at a Table full of Delicacies, and abstains from them, or he who is out of the Reach of those Things that incite Intemperance?
He abstains from Vices, and renews his Patience every Day.
As the fanatic abstainsthrough fear of God or of hell, the free-thinker abstains from what he sees or thinks to be evil (i.
For virginity abstains from all sexual matters, and poverty from all wealth, for a right end, and in a right manner, i.
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