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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... feet ; but d'Arvieux exprefsly tells us fo in another paffage where he fays , the women that wait on the Arab princeffes kifs their hands , when they do them the favour not to fuffer them to kifs their feet , or the border of their robe ...
... feet ; but d'Arvieux exprefsly tells us fo in another paffage where he fays , the women that wait on the Arab princeffes kifs their hands , when they do them the favour not to fuffer them to kifs their feet , or the border of their robe ...
Page 34
... feet , when he begged he would go and heal his daughter , chap . viii . 41 ; that St. Peter fell at the knees of Jefus , after the present Arab mode , I prefume , chap . v . 8 ; and he reprefents the woman , troubled with the iffue of ...
... feet , when he begged he would go and heal his daughter , chap . viii . 41 ; that St. Peter fell at the knees of Jefus , after the present Arab mode , I prefume , chap . v . 8 ; and he reprefents the woman , troubled with the iffue of ...
Page 36
... feet of the Angel " , is to be viewed in a fomewhat different light . St. John did nothing at all but what was conformable to the ufages of his own country , when the peo- ple of it defigned innocently to exprefs great reverence and ...
... feet of the Angel " , is to be viewed in a fomewhat different light . St. John did nothing at all but what was conformable to the ufages of his own country , when the peo- ple of it defigned innocently to exprefs great reverence and ...
Page 37
... feet to do him reverence : " See thou do " it not , " faid the Angel , it is not to me these thanks are due , I have in this been only fulfill- ing the orders of him who is my Lord Lord as well as yours ; worship God " therefore , to ...
... feet to do him reverence : " See thou do " it not , " faid the Angel , it is not to me these thanks are due , I have in this been only fulfill- ing the orders of him who is my Lord Lord as well as yours ; worship God " therefore , to ...
Page 38
... feet , but found the Angel perfevering in that most amiable and devout modefty- " Worship God . ' OBSERVATION XV , Thevenot remarked , in the paffage I ci- ted under the last Observation , that the people of Conftantinople wished the ...
... feet , but found the Angel perfevering in that most amiable and devout modefty- " Worship God . ' OBSERVATION XV , Thevenot remarked , in the paffage I ci- ted under the last Observation , that the people of Conftantinople wished the ...
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