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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... cloth , and , if he had none , two fequins , worth about a guinea , must be 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 ...
... cloth , and , if he had none , two fequins , worth about a guinea , must be 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 ...
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... 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 clothes , two hundred 5 of 10 Of the Methods of doing Perfons Honour to be expected in fuch matters.: the obfer- ...
... 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 clothes , two hundred 5 of 10 Of the Methods of doing Perfons Honour to be expected in fuch matters.: the obfer- ...
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... clothes , two hundred fhirts , and five hundred turbants . An indifputable proof of the frequency with which prefents of this kind are made in the Levant to men of study : and at the same time a fine illuftration of Job's defcription of ...
... clothes , two hundred fhirts , and five hundred turbants . An indifputable proof of the frequency with which prefents of this kind are made in the Levant to men of study : and at the same time a fine illuftration of Job's defcription of ...
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... cloth , and large " bolsters of brocade , hard ftuffed with cot- " ton , are fet against the walls , ( or rails , " when fo fituated as not to touch the wall , ) " for the conveniency of leaning . As 66 they use no chairs , it is upon ...
... cloth , and large " bolsters of brocade , hard ftuffed with cot- " ton , are fet against the walls , ( or rails , " when fo fituated as not to touch the wall , ) " for the conveniency of leaning . As 66 they use no chairs , it is upon ...
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... clothes , or carpets ; and the going up to them by steps " made them very much refem- ble the ancient Eaftern mittahs . Thefe obfervations may be fufficient to give us the meaning of the Prophet in general , when he speaks of Ifrael as ...
... clothes , or carpets ; and the going up to them by steps " made them very much refem- ble the ancient Eaftern mittahs . Thefe obfervations may be fufficient to give us the meaning of the Prophet in general , when he speaks of Ifrael as ...
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