"Rite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... foreign-travelled men is not an intelligent submission to its behests, but an outward observance of them. So the faith and its conservative defenders are satisfied to see these men of culture, as they return with the acquired treasures of the West, submit outwardly to this offensive rite, while their sensitive nature rises in rebellion against it. And these young scions of the East willingly practise this hypocrisy and submit to this indignity in order to live at peace with, and indeed ...
— India, Its Life and Thought • John P. Jones
... the firmest in fight?"—"The Banu Hashim."[FN60] "And wherefore so?" "For that my grandsire the Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib is of them." "And who is the most generous of the Arabs and most steadfast in the guest-rite?"—"The Banu Tayy." "And wherefore so?" "For that the Hatim of Tayy[FN61] was one thereof." "And who is the vilest of the Arabs and the meanest and the most miserly, in whom weal is smallest and ill is greatest?" "The Banu Thakif."[FN62] "And wherefore so?" ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... mountainous regions of Kurdistan, something over six thousand years ago, the fathers of the Hebrew race, inspired by a wisdom that could be nothing less than of divine origin, forestalled the process of evolution by establishing the rite of circumcision. Whether this has been beneficial or injurious to the race will be, in a measure, the object of the discussion in ...
— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present - Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance • Peter Charles Remondino
... habit of going out to Communion Sunday with the emblems of Christ to observe the rite by the bedsides of the aged or ill, or those who could not get out to church. He carried with him this time a basket containing a part of the communion service. After going to the homes of one or two invalid church-members, he thought ...
— The Crucifixion of Philip Strong • Charles M. Sheldon
... a little rite, the evening before, of burning such few letters as he had allowed himself to keep, but he had snatched the last one back from the blaze and cut off the final line, the postscript, with his desk scissors, and put the narrow shred of paper ...
— Jane Journeys On • Ruth Comfort Mitchell
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