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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... against the Sacred Hiftory , and unacquainted with Eaftern cuf toms , may be ready , from the donations to the Prophets , to imagine they were a merce- nary set of people , and rudely to rank them with cunning - men and fortune ...
... against the Sacred Hiftory , and unacquainted with Eaftern cuf toms , may be ready , from the donations to the Prophets , to imagine they were a merce- nary set of people , and rudely to rank them with cunning - men and fortune ...
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... against the walls of their apart- ments , as if they had been plaiftered with filver ; and the preparing raiment as mortar , may poffibly refer to the walls covered with bitumen , or mortar of a dark colour , vestments being heaped up ...
... against the walls of their apart- ments , as if they had been plaiftered with filver ; and the preparing raiment as mortar , may poffibly refer to the walls covered with bitumen , or mortar of a dark colour , vestments being heaped up ...
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... against the ene- mies of their country , till the affair with the Ammonites perfectly fettled his authority . Whether the refractoriness of these people was the cause or not , I am not able to fay , but it seems fufficiently plain that ...
... against the ene- mies of their country , till the affair with the Ammonites perfectly fettled his authority . Whether the refractoriness of these people was the cause or not , I am not able to fay , but it seems fufficiently plain that ...
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... against him . OBSERVATION VI . There is often in these countries a great deal of pomp and parade in presenting their gifts ; and that not only when they are pre- fented to princes or governors of provinces , but where they are of a more ...
... against him . OBSERVATION VI . There is often in these countries a great deal of pomp and parade in presenting their gifts ; and that not only when they are pre- fented to princes or governors of provinces , but where they are of a more ...
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... against them for a little filver , if not for a pair of cobcal . OBSERVATION IX . But mean as the prefent of a pair of cob- cal may feem , prefents of ftill lefs value are frequently made in thefe countries , 66 In " familiar vifits ...
... against them for a little filver , if not for a pair of cobcal . OBSERVATION IX . But mean as the prefent of a pair of cob- cal may feem , prefents of ftill lefs value are frequently made in thefe countries , 66 In " familiar vifits ...
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