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 15
... body at Tar- toura , " ( in the neighbourhood of which town the Emir then was , ) " vyed with each " other as to the prefents they brought of " meat , fowl , game , fruit , coffee , & c . " Were they not prefents of this kind that the ...
... body at Tar- toura , " ( in the neighbourhood of which town the Emir then was , ) " vyed with each " other as to the prefents they brought of " meat , fowl , game , fruit , coffee , & c . " Were they not prefents of this kind that the ...
Page 31
... bodies ; but when they falute a perfon of great rank , they bow al- moft to the ground , and kifs the hem of his garment . Egmont and Heyman , agreea- bly to this , tell us , that two Greek noble- men that introduced them to the exiled ...
... bodies ; but when they falute a perfon of great rank , they bow al- moft to the ground , and kifs the hem of his garment . Egmont and Heyman , agreea- bly to this , tell us , that two Greek noble- men that introduced them to the exiled ...
Page 41
... body knows in how odious a light Cardinal Wolfey's naming himself before his King appeared in England , in the fix- teenth century ' . It was thought the most confummate arrogance ; nevertheless Sir J. Chardin affures us it is cuftomary ...
... body knows in how odious a light Cardinal Wolfey's naming himself before his King appeared in England , in the fix- teenth century ' . It was thought the most confummate arrogance ; nevertheless Sir J. Chardin affures us it is cuftomary ...
Page 58
... body on his heels : this he obferves is the manner in which inferior persons fit at this day before great men ; and that it is confidered as a very humble posture , Agreeably to this he in- forms us in his fecond volume , that the ...
... body on his heels : this he obferves is the manner in which inferior persons fit at this day before great men ; and that it is confidered as a very humble posture , Agreeably to this he in- forms us in his fecond volume , that the ...
Page 64
... body of their verfion , and in the margin , on the bed's feet . I can- not suppose the word in the original is to be confidered as a proper name , and to be tranflated Damafcus , becaufe Ifrael did • La Roque's description of the faloon ...
... body of their verfion , and in the margin , on the bed's feet . I can- not suppose the word in the original is to be confidered as a proper name , and to be tranflated Damafcus , becaufe Ifrael did • La Roque's description of the faloon ...
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