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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... common no difficulty of receiving them , there are fome inftances however of those that have refufed them . So Monf . Maillet tells us , that at the cir- cumcifion of their children they are com- monly wont to receive prefents ...
... common no difficulty of receiving them , there are fome inftances however of those that have refufed them . So Monf . Maillet tells us , that at the cir- cumcifion of their children they are com- monly wont to receive prefents ...
Page 19
... common load is one hun- dred and fixty Rotoloes , or eight hundred pounds weight : if we fuppose these camels of Damafcus were only of the Arab breed , twenty thousand pounds weight was their pro- per loading . C 2 The 1 The true light ...
... common load is one hun- dred and fixty Rotoloes , or eight hundred pounds weight : if we fuppose these camels of Damafcus were only of the Arab breed , twenty thousand pounds weight was their pro- per loading . C 2 The 1 The true light ...
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... common prefent that is now made to the Great in these countries is an horfe ; there is reafon to think an afs might formerly an- fwer the fame purpose . 64 . 26 66 I " If it is a vifit of ceremony from a Ba- fhaw , " fays Dr. Ruffell ...
... common prefent that is now made to the Great in these countries is an horfe ; there is reafon to think an afs might formerly an- fwer the fame purpose . 64 . 26 66 I " If it is a vifit of ceremony from a Ba- fhaw , " fays Dr. Ruffell ...
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... common falutation , Sandys fays ' , is laying the right - hand on the bofom , and a little declining their 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 ...
... common falutation , Sandys fays ' , is laying the right - hand on the bofom , and a little declining their 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 ...
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... common falutation . Which compliment the last - mentioned au- thor tells us , he faw the Grand Signior him- felf pay the people , when he rode through the streets of Conftantinople in great ftate , " He faluted all the people , having ...
... common falutation . Which compliment the last - mentioned au- thor tells us , he faw the Grand Signior him- felf pay the people , when he rode through the streets of Conftantinople in great ftate , " He faluted all the people , having ...
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