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 8
... custom perfectly conformable to what is at prefent practifed in the Eaft , and had a ground for it in nature , which modern tra- vellers have explained to us . " This custom " ( of making prefents , ) fays Maillet , " is principally ...
... custom perfectly conformable to what is at prefent practifed in the Eaft , and had a ground for it in nature , which modern tra- vellers have explained to us . " This custom " ( of making prefents , ) fays Maillet , " is principally ...
Page 16
... custom to make prefents to a king when he was inaugurated ; but I do not know on what authority . The remark of Vatablus how- ever , in the fame collection , is without doubt very inaccurate , who , upon the Chaldee pa- raphraft's ...
... custom to make prefents to a king when he was inaugurated ; but I do not know on what authority . The remark of Vatablus how- ever , in the fame collection , is without doubt very inaccurate , who , upon the Chaldee pa- raphraft's ...
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... custom of the Eaft for poor people , and especially thofe that live in the country , to make prefents to their Lords of lambs and fheep , as an offering , tri- bute , or fucceffion . Prefents to men , like offer- ings to God , expiate ...
... custom of the Eaft for poor people , and especially thofe that live in the country , to make prefents to their Lords of lambs and fheep , as an offering , tri- bute , or fucceffion . Prefents to men , like offer- ings to God , expiate ...
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... custom of the Eaft , he says , when one invites a Superior , to make him a prefent after the repaft , as it were in ac- knowledgment of his trouble ; frequently it is done before it it being no augmentation of honour to come to the ...
... custom of the Eaft , he says , when one invites a Superior , to make him a prefent after the repaft , as it were in ac- knowledgment of his trouble ; frequently it is done before it it being no augmentation of honour to come to the ...
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... customs of the Eaft , with re- spect to the manner of doing perfons ho- nour there , are changed , though we read , that when our Lord entered with fomething of state into Jerufalem , they cried , " Ho- " fanna to the son of David ...
... customs of the Eaft , with re- spect to the manner of doing perfons ho- nour there , are changed , though we read , that when our Lord entered with fomething of state into Jerufalem , they cried , " Ho- " fanna to the son of David ...
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