We have seen that with all its vaunted love of humanity it has proved itself the greatest menace to Man, far worse than the sudden outbursts of nomadic barbarism from which men suffered in the early ages of history.
You break it, and have in your hands the nomadic atoms fighting against one another, therefore unmeaning.
They had their father’s fierce, hawklike profile, softened by youth, and the appalling height and robustness due to the freedom and fresh air of a nomadic existence.
She, possibly enough, thought only of herself; he could best provide for her then simple wants, best guard her from the disagreeable accidents of nomadic life.
From the nomadic savage by the winding road of citizenship we have advanced far.
The American backwoodsman who clears a patch, then sells his improvements to the first newcomer, and, placing his wife and children and scanty belongings on a cart, proceeds da capo elsewhere, is a nomadic pioneer.
The earliestnomadic stage of mankind has left traces in many of the colonies.
They saluted the newcomers, and remained dumb as the Indians, whose manner they had to some extent assumed in their nomadic life on the Pampa.
They have long been accustomed to this strange and nomadic life, and hence they acquire a fineness of perception almost equal to that of the Indians, and their practised eyes recognize the slightest trace on the lightly trodden grass or sand.
This tolderia, a simple temporary encampment, like all the Indian villages, whose nomadic manners do not agree with fixed settlements, was composed of about one hundred chozas, or cabins irregularly grouped one after the other.
I say that the vast majority, the fixed race through which in fluid andnomadic form Israel goes moving from century to century, is not free to discharge its responsibility by any one of those attempted solutions which I have condemned.
They live and they desire to live the semi-nomadic life, the international life, which has become theirs by every tradition, and which one might now almost call instinctive in them.
The sage appears to have been the product of the early nomadic Semitic life, in which books were unknown and the practical wisdom gained by experience was treasured in the minds of certain men who were called the wise or sages.
Possibly their ancestors, like those of Hammurabi, belonged to that wave of nomadic emigration which swept out of overpopulated northern Arabia about 2500 B.
Three of them apply to agricultural life; but agriculture is not entirely unknown to the nomadic life of the wilderness.
It attracted from their nomadic life the ancestors of the Israelites, and during their early period of development gave them a secluded home.
The wandering, nomadic life leaves no place for established sanctuaries, with their elaborate ceremonial customs and debasing institutions inherited from more primitive ages.
Some were originally the possessions of certain nomadic tribes; others recorded the early experiences of their ancestors or told of the achievements of early heroes.
Most of its area is a barren wilderness, supporting only a small nomadic population.
The peasantry must not be confounded with the BedawA(R)n or nomadic tribes, living in the uncultivated districts; for the two nations are quite separate branches of the Semitic people, and they themselves acknowledge the distinction.
Thus from the great Moab plateau and from the mountains of Gilead, from the southern Desert of Wanderings, and from the western plain of Sharon, the wave of nomadiclife is constantly lapping against the mountains of the FellahA(R)n.
Euro The preceding pages will, I hope, serve to show how broad is the distinction between the peasantry and the nomadic people, and how interesting is the study of both the races as throwing light on the Bible narrative.
Much in the manners and arrangements of the Parthians is alien from Iranian habits, and reminds us of the customs of nomadic life; they transact business and eat on horseback, and the free man never goes on foot.
Two-thirds of the inhabitants live in the capital city, the remainder being mostly nomadic herders.
About 10% of the population is nomadic and some 80% of the labor force is engaged in farming and fishing.
Footnote 23: The nomadic tribe of the Arbâa encamps in the neighbourhood of Leghrouât.
To a pastoral and a nomadic people, roaming our vast grazing grounds, and whose numbers bear no proportion to the extent of their territories, the horse is a necessity of life.
The Arabs of the Sahara give the preference over a more perfect one to these bellows with their feeble blast, but which are easily transported in their nomadic expeditions.
In the land of Canaan they would have been only a pastoral or nomadic people, unable to defend themselves in war, and unacquainted with the use of military weapons.
In the hospitality of the King, and his absence of jealousy of the nomadic people whom he settled in the most fertile of his provinces, we see additional confirmation of the fact that he was one of the Shepherd Kings.
After a century of practice it was finally learned that nomadic savages have no idea of sovereign government or legal obligation, and that the assumption of the existence of such knowledge can lead only to misconception and disappointment.
In 1869 it looked forward with confidence "to success in the effort to civilize the nomadic tribes.
He had to be chosen from the nomadic class of civilians.
The Hebrew Nazirite vow, for example, was merely a consecration of a part of the body to the deity with the observance of old nomadic customs of food and dwellings.
Of savage and slightly civilized tribes some live by hunting or fishing, some are pastoral (nomadic or settled), some practice agriculture.
Arrived in Canaan, the masses were attracted by the local Canaanite deities (whose worship represented a higher civilization than that of the nomadic Hebrews), and later, in the seventh century B.
Meitzen reports of the Lapps, nomadic in Norway: “Three hundred reindeer sufficed for one family; who owned only a hundred must enter the service of the richer, whose herds ran up to a thousand head.
Yet, on the other side, how can a reforming Emperor suffer his people to fall back into the nomadic state?
But the religious and nomadic passions of their race are strong upon them.
Nobody knew how far the serf had been broken of those nomadic habits which led to serfage.
The Gypsies, here called Tsiganie, live a nomadic life in the Eastern Steppe, as in other countries, sleeping in wretched tents of coarse brown cloth, and grovelling like dogs and swine in the mire.
The first are a settled people, living in towns, and tilling the soil; the second a nomadic people, dwelling in tents, and roving from plain to plain with their flocks and herds.
At first they were a nomadic soldiery, living in camps; and even after the war had died out, they kept to their wagons, and roamed through the country as the seasons came and went.
The Mongol Tartars of Western Toumet do not lead the pastoral and nomadic life; they cultivate their lands and apply themselves to the arts of civilized nations.
The course of nomadic life now practically introduced us also to the occupation of washermen.
The Mongols insensibly followed their example, and abandoned the nomadic life.
In the desert, among the truenomadic tribes, the entire ceremony consists in conveying the dead to the tops of hills or the bottoms of ravines, there to be devoured by the birds and beasts of prey.
On the other side of the Yellow River we found ourselves in China, and bade adieu for awhile to Tartary, to the desert, and to the nomadic life.
Those who have never led a nomadic life will, of course, find it difficult to understand how this occupation could possibly develope any enjoyment.
Each day's experience of the nomadic life had served more and more to dispel our original apprehension of robbers.
You sometimes in Tartary come upon plains more animated than those you have just traversed; they are those, whither the greater supply of water and the choicest pastures have attracted for a time a number of nomadic families.
After having received the condolences of our Christians, we retired to rest, convinced that this night would certainly be that preceding our nomadic life.
We were no sooner acquainted with this nomadic people, than we loved them, and our hearts were filled with a passionate desire to announce the gospel to them.
Thus, in dress, in their nomadic habits, food, the anointing with oil (Eccles.
The Arabs are creatures of necessity; their nomadic life is compulsory, as the existence of their flocks and herds depends upon the pasturage.
All these are present in the highest degree in the nomadic group under the typical patriarchal system.
And, as a matter of fact, the people who have remained in these regions continue to lead just the same patriarchal, pastoral, nomadic life.
This nomadic and pastoral life extended very widely over the old world in ancient times, but existed nowhere in the new world, for the simple reason that they had no domesticated animals.
Semitic, the Tuaregs of the Sahara, are a purely nomadic or pastoral race; yet are very much above the negroes of the south, who depend upon hunting and fishing.
This nomadic and pastoral life is a very great advance over the mere hunting and fishing stage.
And yet--at one time and in one stage of human progress--the nomadic state is the rule; and the settler is then the criminal.
These people must have a wonderful code of signs and signals, as despite their isolated and nomadic existence they always know exactly what is happening everywhere.
