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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... : the Turks in this point keeping up the ancient oriental cuf " tom hinted 1 Sam . ix . 7. If we go ( fays Saul ) what shall we bring the man of God ? 56 46 " there 66 " there is not a prefent , & c 2 Of the Methods of doing Perfons Honour.
... : the Turks in this point keeping up the ancient oriental cuf " tom hinted 1 Sam . ix . 7. If we go ( fays Saul ) what shall we bring the man of God ? 56 46 " there 66 " there is not a prefent , & c 2 Of the Methods of doing Perfons Honour.
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... shall be less furprised after reading this , at the basons and earthen vessels prefented to David at Maha- naim , by fome of the great men of that part of the country , along with sheep , flour , honey , & c . 2 Sam . xvii . 28 , 29 ...
... shall be less furprised after reading this , at the basons and earthen vessels prefented to David at Maha- naim , by fome of the great men of that part of the country , along with sheep , flour , honey , & c . 2 Sam . xvii . 28 , 29 ...
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... shall bow before him , or become his vaffals ; nay his enemies , and confequently thefe Arabs , among the rest , " fhall lick the " duft , " or court him with the moft abject fubmiffions . 66 Conquered princes themfelves , we fee in d ...
... shall bow before him , or become his vaffals ; nay his enemies , and confequently thefe Arabs , among the rest , " fhall lick the " duft , " or court him with the moft abject fubmiffions . 66 Conquered princes themfelves , we fee in d ...
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... shall KISS , receiving them with the profoundest respect and obedience . 3 The Ægyptian tranflators of the Septua- gint seem to have understood Prov . xxiv . 26 . in much the fame fenfe , Lips fhall kifs thofe things that anfwer right ...
... shall KISS , receiving them with the profoundest respect and obedience . 3 The Ægyptian tranflators of the Septua- gint seem to have understood Prov . xxiv . 26 . in much the fame fenfe , Lips fhall kifs thofe things that anfwer right ...
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... shall kiss -- the hem of his garment , or even the earth at his feet . The word cu- pit , ( every man defires to kifs , ) is indeed made ufe of in the Synopfis , perhaps to sof- ten this impropriety ; but if fo , it is ufed in vain ...
... shall kiss -- the hem of his garment , or even the earth at his feet . The word cu- pit , ( every man defires to kifs , ) is indeed made ufe of in the Synopfis , perhaps to sof- ten this impropriety ; but if fo , it is ufed in vain ...
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