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  • Still, his own heart condemned him, for he felt that it would pain his father and mother exceedingly if they knew that he neglected to attend church at least once on the sabbath-day; and he was, besides, self-convicted of wrong in what seemed to him a violation of the precept, _Remember the sabbath-day_, &c. as he had been taught to regard that precept.

    No and Other Stories Compiled by Uncle Humphrey Various

  • It should seem that, by some kind of enchantments, they had thrown him into a delirium so far, that he had forgot both himself and the sabbath-day.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • "Women may not look into a looking-glass on the sabbath-day, if it be fixed to a wall, Rabbi loosed it, but the wise men bound it."

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • When they were met together in the synagogue on the sabbath-day (for this being observed, there is no need to speak any thing of the other days), the service being begun, the minister of the church calls out seven, whomsoever he pleases to call out, to read the law in their order.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Inquiry is made, whence the number of the thirty-nine more principal servile works, to be avoided on the sabbath-day, may be proved.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • The Gloss tells us, 'That he bought of thirteen butchers, that he might be sure to taste the best: and before they could come that should bring the flesh, he had gotten his money ready for them, and paid them at the very gate, that he might hasten dinner: and all this in honour of the sabbath-day.'

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Twenty thousand men were slain there afterward on one sabbath-day.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • "To them that bathe in the hot-baths in the sabbath-day, they bind washing, and they loose sweating."

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • "They ate, on the sabbath-day, under the tree, such fruits, as fell from the tree," although they were uncertain whether they had fallen on the sabbath-day or the eve of the sabbath: for such as fell on the sabbath were forbidden.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • "Concerning the moving of empty vessels [on the sabbath-day], of the filling of which there is no intention; the school of Shammai binds it, the school of Hillel looseth it."

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

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