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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... Arab Sheik of an illuftrious defcent on whom he waited , and who attended him to the an- cient Hierapolis , with a piece of money which he was told he expected ' ; and that in Egypt an Aga being diffatisfied with the present he made him ...
... Arab Sheik of an illuftrious defcent on whom he waited , and who attended him to the an- cient Hierapolis , with a piece of money which he was told he expected ' ; and that in Egypt an Aga being diffatisfied with the present he made him ...
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... Arabs of Tartoura did this Emir ; but fome fons of Belial , fome perverfe towns , or fome unhap- pily - difpofed particular perfons of wealth and figure , refused to pay him this compliment , defpifing these efforts of his'against the ...
... Arabs of Tartoura did this Emir ; but fome fons of Belial , fome perverfe towns , or fome unhap- pily - difpofed particular perfons of wealth and figure , refused to pay him this compliment , defpifing these efforts of his'against the ...
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... Arab camel carries one hundred Rotoloes , or five hundred pounds weight , according to which forty camel - loads is equal to twenty thousand pounds ; but the Turkman camel's common load is one hun- dred and fixty Rotoloes , or eight ...
... Arab camel carries one hundred Rotoloes , or five hundred pounds weight , according to which forty camel - loads is equal to twenty thousand pounds ; but the Turkman camel's common load is one hun- dred and fixty Rotoloes , or eight ...
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... Arabs that attended him , in their way to Mount Sinai , he fays , " Here one of them , who had a difference with one of the company , See Obf . I , 66 66 as he was in his own country , 46 as 22 Of the Methods of doing Perfons Honour VII ...
... Arabs that attended him , in their way to Mount Sinai , he fays , " Here one of them , who had a difference with one of the company , See Obf . I , 66 66 as he was in his own country , 46 as 22 Of the Methods of doing Perfons Honour VII ...
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... Arabs . ( Voy . dans la Pal . p . 62. ) 3 P. 182 . 2 P. 184 . 4 Coutume d'Orient que les pauvres gens , fur tout des champs , donnent a leur Seigneurs des agneaux & moutons en presens , en signe d'offrande , tribut , fucceffion ...
... Arabs . ( Voy . dans la Pal . p . 62. ) 3 P. 182 . 2 P. 184 . 4 Coutume d'Orient que les pauvres gens , fur tout des champs , donnent a leur Seigneurs des agneaux & moutons en presens , en signe d'offrande , tribut , fucceffion ...
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