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 32
... give of the common falutation . Which compliment the last - mentioned au- thor tells us , he faw the Grand Signior him- felf pay the people , when he rode through the streets of Conftantinople in great ftate , " He faluted all the ...
... give of the common falutation . Which compliment the last - mentioned au- thor tells us , he faw the Grand Signior him- felf pay the people , when he rode through the streets of Conftantinople in great ftate , " He faluted all the ...
Page 45
... gives no inftance of this fort , which certainly it would have been right for him to have done , in animadverting on an author of fuch fame . The citations from d'Herbelot may supply that defect to which may be added , that it 4 In loc ...
... gives no inftance of this fort , which certainly it would have been right for him to have done , in animadverting on an author of fuch fame . The citations from d'Herbelot may supply that defect to which may be added , that it 4 In loc ...
Page 47
... gives a clear ac- count of the ground of fome ancient and modern religious ceremonies . Thus Pitts has also told us , that the Mohammedans begin their worship with bringing their two thumbs together , and kiffing them three times , and ...
... gives a clear ac- count of the ground of fome ancient and modern religious ceremonies . Thus Pitts has also told us , that the Mohammedans begin their worship with bringing their two thumbs together , and kiffing them three times , and ...
Page 52
... gives an account of in his de- scription of the Arabs of Mount Carmel , who , when they prefent any petition to their Emir for a favour , offer their billets to him with their right - hands , after having firft kiffed the papers . The ...
... gives an account of in his de- scription of the Arabs of Mount Carmel , who , when they prefent any petition to their Emir for a favour , offer their billets to him with their right - hands , after having firft kiffed the papers . The ...
Page 58
... gives a fimilar ac- count " . In this manner , I fuppofe , it was that David fat before the Lord , when he went into the fanctuary to blefs him for his pro- mife concerning his family . Abarbanel , and fome Christian expofitors , feem ...
... gives a fimilar ac- count " . In this manner , I fuppofe , it was that David fat before the Lord , when he went into the fanctuary to blefs him for his pro- mife concerning his family . Abarbanel , and fome Christian expofitors , feem ...
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