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 3
... doth not tell us what the pre- fent was which they made Oftan . It will be more entirely fatisfying then to the mind to obferve , that in the Eaft they not only uni- verfally fend before them a prefent , or carry one with them ...
... doth not tell us what the pre- fent was which they made Oftan . It will be more entirely fatisfying then to the mind to obferve , that in the Eaft they not only uni- verfally fend before them a prefent , or carry one with them ...
Page 6
... doth not appear to have been , in the estimation of the East , a present only fit for a country - woman to have made : for d'Arvieux tells us , that when he waited on an Arab Emir , his mother and fifter , to gratify whofe curiofity ...
... doth not appear to have been , in the estimation of the East , a present only fit for a country - woman to have made : for d'Arvieux tells us , that when he waited on an Arab Emir , his mother and fifter , to gratify whofe curiofity ...
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... doth this place the prefent the Eaftern Magi made him : in the circumstances in which they found him , a flower , an orange , ( or a citron , ) or any fuch trifle , had been fufficient to introduce them to the young child ; but mean as ...
... doth this place the prefent the Eaftern Magi made him : in the circumstances in which they found him , a flower , an orange , ( or a citron , ) or any fuch trifle , had been fufficient to introduce them to the young child ; but mean as ...
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... doth not contain the whole of what they meant . OBSERVATION XII . People that go into the prefence of the Great carry with them fome gift to make way for them , or fend it before them ; on the contrary , when a fuperior vifits an infe ...
... doth not contain the whole of what they meant . OBSERVATION XII . People that go into the prefence of the Great carry with them fome gift to make way for them , or fend it before them ; on the contrary , when a fuperior vifits an infe ...
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... doth not ap- pear by any means to be juft . The prefix Lamed fhould in that cafe have been joined to the word Lips ; not to repeat what I ob- 3 Vide Noldii Conc . in part . gnal , 24 . E VOL . II . ferved served in the beginning of this ...
... doth not ap- pear by any means to be juft . The prefix Lamed fhould in that cafe have been joined to the word Lips ; not to repeat what I ob- 3 Vide Noldii Conc . in part . gnal , 24 . E VOL . II . ferved served in the beginning of this ...
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