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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... brought to him , otherwise he should fee no more , with which demand he complied . In one cafe a piece of money was expected , in the other two fequins demanded . A trifling prefent of money to a perfon of distinction amongst us would ...
... brought to him , otherwise he should fee no more , with which demand he complied . In one cafe a piece of money was expected , in the other two fequins demanded . A trifling prefent of money to a perfon of distinction amongst us would ...
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... brought them prefents . So the Khalife Mahadi , according to d'Herbelot , gave an Arab that had entertained him in the desert , a veft , and a purfe of filver . ] 7 P. 208 , 209 . 6 2 Kings 5. 11 .瞽 of an hundred complete fuits of ...
... brought them prefents . So the Khalife Mahadi , according to d'Herbelot , gave an Arab that had entertained him in the desert , a veft , and a purfe of filver . ] 7 P. 208 , 209 . 6 2 Kings 5. 11 .瞽 of an hundred complete fuits of ...
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... brought him by Naaman , 2 Kings v . 16 ; who yet accepted that brought by Hazael , ch . viii . 9. What those reasons were , we are not informed ; but I dare fay , that affigned by Bishop Patrick , or rather Abarbinel , was not among ...
... brought him by Naaman , 2 Kings v . 16 ; who yet accepted that brought by Hazael , ch . viii . 9. What those reasons were , we are not informed ; but I dare fay , that affigned by Bishop Patrick , or rather Abarbinel , was not among ...
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... brought of " meat , fowl , game , fruit , coffee , & c . " Were they not prefents of this kind that the children of Belial neglected to bring , 1 Sam . X. 27 ? A band of men , we are told , whofe hearts God had touched , went with Saul ...
... brought of " meat , fowl , game , fruit , coffee , & c . " Were they not prefents of this kind that the children of Belial neglected to bring , 1 Sam . X. 27 ? A band of men , we are told , whofe hearts God had touched , went with Saul ...
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... brought him no prefent , I fubmit it to the reader to determine which is the most natural fuppofition , whether that of thofe who imagine , the complaint relates to fome perfons omitting to make him a visit of congratulation , as the ...
... brought him no prefent , I fubmit it to the reader to determine which is the most natural fuppofition , whether that of thofe who imagine , the complaint relates to fome perfons omitting to make him a visit of congratulation , as the ...
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