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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... given him a piece of cloth , and , if he had none , two fequins , worth about a guinea , must be brought to him , otherwise he should fee no more , with which demand he complied . In one cafe a piece of money was expected , in the other ...
... given him a piece of cloth , and , if he had none , two fequins , worth about a guinea , must be brought to him , otherwise he should fee no more , with which demand he complied . In one cafe a piece of money was expected , in the other ...
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... given us , 1 Kings xiv . 3. I very much queftion , however , whether that was any part of the disguise the affumed , as an emi- nent Prelate fuppofes ' , who imagines the prefented him with fuch things as might make the Prophet think ...
... given us , 1 Kings xiv . 3. I very much queftion , however , whether that was any part of the disguise the affumed , as an emi- nent Prelate fuppofes ' , who imagines the prefented him with fuch things as might make the Prophet think ...
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... given , were carefully registered in a book for that purpofe . If a collection of papers of this fort , belonging to the Bafhaw of Gaza , the Mofolem of Jerufalem , or the Arab Emir of the Holy - Land , were put into our hands ; or if ...
... given , were carefully registered in a book for that purpofe . If a collection of papers of this fort , belonging to the Bafhaw of Gaza , the Mofolem of Jerufalem , or the Arab Emir of the Holy - Land , were put into our hands ; or if ...
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... given to men of learning in the East in later times ; but as to vestments , d'Her- belot ' tells us , that Bokhteri , an illuftrious poet of Cufah in the ninth century , had fo many presents made him in the courfe of his life , that at ...
... given to men of learning in the East in later times ; but as to vestments , d'Her- belot ' tells us , that Bokhteri , an illuftrious poet of Cufah in the ninth century , had fo many presents made him in the courfe of his life , that at ...
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... given us of Ben- hadad's prefent to the Prophet Elifha , which confifted of forty camels burthen of the good- things of Damafcus . This Syrian prince 2 Let . 10. p . 86 . do not know . 2 4 3 What he means by this word , I 2 Kings 8. 9 ...
... given us of Ben- hadad's prefent to the Prophet Elifha , which confifted of forty camels burthen of the good- things of Damafcus . This Syrian prince 2 Let . 10. p . 86 . do not know . 2 4 3 What he means by this word , I 2 Kings 8. 9 ...
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