Observations on Divers Passages of Scripture. Placing Many of Them in a Light Altogether New ... and More Amply Illustrating the Rest Than Has Been Yet Done, by Means of Circumstances Incidentally Mentioned in Books of Voyages and Travels Into the East: In Two Volumes. ...J. Johnson, 1797 |
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Page 11
... say that poffibly , as the word tranflated duft fignifies plaiftering , and that ren- dered clay , mortar , the heaping up filver like plaistering may point out the piling up filver , against the walls of their apart- ments , as if they ...
... say that poffibly , as the word tranflated duft fignifies plaiftering , and that ren- dered clay , mortar , the heaping up filver like plaistering may point out the piling up filver , against the walls of their apart- ments , as if they ...
Page 28
... says , when one invites a Superior , to make him a prefent after the repaft , as it were in ac- knowledgment of his trouble ; frequently it is done before it it being no augmentation of honour to come to the house of one that is an in ...
... says , when one invites a Superior , to make him a prefent after the repaft , as it were in ac- knowledgment of his trouble ; frequently it is done before it it being no augmentation of honour to come to the house of one that is an in ...
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... say to Cornelius , a Roman , who received him with a reverence esteemed the lowest and moft fubmiffive even in the ceremonious Eaft , and which the Romans were wont to speak of as too folemn to be paid to mere men , " Stand up , I ...
... say to Cornelius , a Roman , who received him with a reverence esteemed the lowest and moft fubmiffive even in the ceremonious Eaft , and which the Romans were wont to speak of as too folemn to be paid to mere men , " Stand up , I ...
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... says , threw himself one day on the ground , and kiffed the prints that his victorious ene- my's horse had made there , reciting fome verfes in Perfian which he had compofed , to this effect , " The mark that the foot of your horse ...
... says , threw himself one day on the ground , and kiffed the prints that his victorious ene- my's horse had made there , reciting fome verfes in Perfian which he had compofed , to this effect , " The mark that the foot of your horse ...
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... says , Pf . lxxii . 8 , " He fhall have dominion from fea to fea , and from the river to the ends of the " earth ; " he marks out extent of empire ; when he adds , " they that dwell in the wil- " dernefs fhall bow before him , " it ...
... says , Pf . lxxii . 8 , " He fhall have dominion from fea to fea , and from the river to the ends of the " earth ; " he marks out extent of empire ; when he adds , " they that dwell in the wil- " dernefs fhall bow before him , " it ...
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