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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... ground for it in nature , which modern tra- vellers have explained to us . " This custom " ( of making prefents , ) fays Maillet , " is principally obferved in the fre- quent vifits which they make one another ' " through the course of ...
... ground for it in nature , which modern tra- vellers have explained to us . " This custom " ( of making prefents , ) fays Maillet , " is principally obferved in the fre- quent vifits which they make one another ' " through the course of ...
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... ground , of prefenting common eat- ables to perfons who were vifited at their own houses , I would by no means be under- ftood to affirm they have always kept to this , and presented eatables when they expected to stay with them and ...
... ground , of prefenting common eat- ables to perfons who were vifited at their own houses , I would by no means be under- ftood to affirm they have always kept to this , and presented eatables when they expected to stay with them and ...
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... ground of this metaphor . I have fome doubt however , I muft confefs , of the juftnefs of this account of the ground of this image . If it means any thing more than what is mentioned Zech . 9. 3 , which I much question , I should say ...
... ground of this metaphor . I have fome doubt however , I muft confefs , of the juftnefs of this account of the ground of this image . If it means any thing more than what is mentioned Zech . 9. 3 , which I much question , I should say ...
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... ground of the complaint then that they brought him no prefent , I fubmit it to the reader to determine which is the most natural fuppofition , whether that of thofe who imagine , the complaint relates to fome perfons omitting to make ...
... ground of the complaint then that they brought him no prefent , I fubmit it to the reader to determine which is the most natural fuppofition , whether that of thofe who imagine , the complaint relates to fome perfons omitting to make ...
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... grounds , appears to have been not a mere act of benevolence and pity , but the paying him the wonted refpect with which their princes were treat- ed ; and confequently acknowledging him , in the best manner , their fovereign , while ...
... grounds , appears to have been not a mere act of benevolence and pity , but the paying him the wonted refpect with which their princes were treat- ed ; and confequently acknowledging him , in the best manner , their fovereign , while ...
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