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 112
... describes Huzzab as a great princefs , attended by her maids of ho- nour , bewailing her and their condition ; but neither has he , nor any other commen- tator that I know of , entered into the force of the expreffion , " her maids ...
... describes Huzzab as a great princefs , attended by her maids of ho- nour , bewailing her and their condition ; but neither has he , nor any other commen- tator that I know of , entered into the force of the expreffion , " her maids ...
Page 140
... were wont to have their dead interred . It cannot well be understood in the first sense , because the Prophet , all along , describes the the Ægyptians as being to lie with the rest of 140 Of the Methods of doing Perfons Honour.
... were wont to have their dead interred . It cannot well be understood in the first sense , because the Prophet , all along , describes the the Ægyptians as being to lie with the rest of 140 Of the Methods of doing Perfons Honour.
Page 354
... describes the happy effects of female Jewish industry : " She maketh herself co- " verings of tapeftry , her clothing is filk " and purple . " They fuppofe then , that the Jewish women of not the highest rank , in the time of Solomon ...
... describes the happy effects of female Jewish industry : " She maketh herself co- " verings of tapeftry , her clothing is filk " and purple . " They fuppofe then , that the Jewish women of not the highest rank , in the time of Solomon ...
Page 359
... describes it as one of the merchandifes Syria carried to Tyre , and the other two relate to the court of Ahafuerus King of Perfia . How natural to understand all these places of East Indian manufactures , muslins , or fine calicoes ...
... describes it as one of the merchandifes Syria carried to Tyre , and the other two relate to the court of Ahafuerus King of Perfia . How natural to understand all these places of East Indian manufactures , muslins , or fine calicoes ...
Page 381
... describing the drefs of the ladies in fome of the iflands of the Archipelago . If we cannot truft our own invention , and must fervilely copy after other nations , would it not be right for the Britifh ladies , rather to fetch their ...
... describing the drefs of the ladies in fome of the iflands of the Archipelago . If we cannot truft our own invention , and must fervilely copy after other nations , would it not be right for the Britifh ladies , rather to fetch their ...
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