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 77
... still . And because fomething may very proba- bly be learnt from their prefent customs of this fort , explanatory of this command of Nebuchadnezzar , let us , a little more dif- tinctly than we have hitherto done , confider the various ...
... still . And because fomething may very proba- bly be learnt from their prefent customs of this fort , explanatory of this command of Nebuchadnezzar , let us , a little more dif- tinctly than we have hitherto done , confider the various ...
Page 93
... still very much continue in the Eaft , tells us that Ladies pass their time at their looms , em- broidering veils and robes , furrounded by their maids . 2 These outer garments , which her ladyfhip calls robes , and Dr. Shaw burnooses ...
... still very much continue in the Eaft , tells us that Ladies pass their time at their looms , em- broidering veils and robes , furrounded by their maids . 2 These outer garments , which her ladyfhip calls robes , and Dr. Shaw burnooses ...
Page 115
... still leads the " dance , and is followed by a troop of young girls , who imitate her steps , and , if " fhe fings , make up the chorus . " tunes are extremely gay and lively , yet " with fomething in them wonderfully foft . : 66 16 36 ...
... still leads the " dance , and is followed by a troop of young girls , who imitate her steps , and , if " fhe fings , make up the chorus . " tunes are extremely gay and lively , yet " with fomething in them wonderfully foft . : 66 16 36 ...
Page 135
... still retained in the Eaft , and feems to be confidered as an honour done to the de- ceafed . That it was done anciently , appears from the story of the dying of the daughter of Jairus . St. Mark ufes the term Oogubos , which fignifies ...
... still retained in the Eaft , and feems to be confidered as an honour done to the de- ceafed . That it was done anciently , appears from the story of the dying of the daughter of Jairus . St. Mark ufes the term Oogubos , which fignifies ...
Page 137
... kind , I will fet down what Sir J. Chardin has given us an account of in one of his Manuscripts ; and the rather , as fome particulars are new to me . The The Oriental Chriftians still make banquets of this kind , in the Holy - Land . 137.
... kind , I will fet down what Sir J. Chardin has given us an account of in one of his Manuscripts ; and the rather , as fome particulars are new to me . The The Oriental Chriftians still make banquets of this kind , in the Holy - Land . 137.
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