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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... carry one with them , especially when they vifit fuperiors , either civil or ecclefiaftical ; but that this present is frequently a piece of mo- ney , and that of no very great value . So Dr. Pococke tells us , that he prefented an Arab ...
... carry one with them , especially when they vifit fuperiors , either civil or ecclefiaftical ; but that this present is frequently a piece of mo- ney , and that of no very great value . So Dr. Pococke tells us , that he prefented an Arab ...
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... carried loaves , cracknells , ( or rather cakes enriched with feeds , ) and à crufe of honey , and was made by princeffes that * See Patrick on 1 Kings xiv . 3 . par la Roque , p . 50 . 2 * Voy , dans la Pal . | avorved 2 avowed their ...
... carried loaves , cracknells , ( or rather cakes enriched with feeds , ) and à crufe of honey , and was made by princeffes that * See Patrick on 1 Kings xiv . 3 . par la Roque , p . 50 . 2 * Voy , dans la Pal . | avorved 2 avowed their ...
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... carried their own provisions with them , was perfectly natu- ral ; but to those whom they visited in their own ... carry " all their family with them , if they have any ; and the custom is , as I have just « obferved , to fend prefents ...
... carried their own provisions with them , was perfectly natu- ral ; but to those whom they visited in their own ... carry " all their family with them , if they have any ; and the custom is , as I have just « obferved , to fend prefents ...
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... carried with great pomp too to the bridegroom's houfe , but on the marriage - day itself , and immediately before the bride : carpets , cufhions , mattreffes , co- verlets , pignates ' , difhes , bafons , jewels , trinkets of gold ...
... carried with great pomp too to the bridegroom's houfe , but on the marriage - day itself , and immediately before the bride : carpets , cufhions , mattreffes , co- verlets , pignates ' , difhes , bafons , jewels , trinkets of gold ...
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... carried for ftate on a number of camels , and that no fewer than forty were employed in the cavalcade ; not that they carried each a full loading . And we may very well be- lieve that befides eatables , and wine of Hel- bon , fome of ...
... carried for ftate on a number of camels , and that no fewer than forty were employed in the cavalcade ; not that they carried each a full loading . And we may very well be- lieve that befides eatables , and wine of Hel- bon , fome of ...
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