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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... 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.
... 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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... ancient cuftoms to the elucidation of Scripture , to which if he was a stranger , he must have been an egregiously negligent observer ; yet we find him , in his comment on Micah iii . 11 , roundly declaring , that by a Prophet's ...
... ancient cuftoms to the elucidation of Scripture , to which if he was a stranger , he must have been an egregiously negligent observer ; yet we find him , in his comment on Micah iii . 11 , roundly declaring , that by a Prophet's ...
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... ancient Prophets , we are not always told ; but all the particulars of that made by Jeroboam's Queen to the Prophet Ahijah are given us , 1 Kings xiv . 3. I very much queftion , however , whether that was any part of the disguise the ...
... ancient Prophets , we are not always told ; but all the particulars of that made by Jeroboam's Queen to the Prophet Ahijah are given us , 1 Kings xiv . 3. I very much queftion , however , whether that was any part of the disguise the ...
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... ancient 66 66 66 Egyptians , and though they are often " made without going out of the fame city , yet they never fail of lafting three or four days , and fometimes eight . They carry " all their family with them , if they have any ...
... ancient 66 66 66 Egyptians , and though they are often " made without going out of the fame city , yet they never fail of lafting three or four days , and fometimes eight . They carry " all their family with them , if they have any ...
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... ancient prince , and the making ufe of as many hands in it as might be , conformably to the modern ritual of the Eaftern courts . But what I chiefly take notice of it for , is to il- lustrate the account that is given us of Ben- hadad's ...
... ancient prince , and the making ufe of as many hands in it as might be , conformably to the modern ritual of the Eaftern courts . But what I chiefly take notice of it for , is to il- lustrate the account that is given us of Ben- hadad's ...
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