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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... hand . All great men expect it as a kind of tribute due to their character and authority ; and look upon " themselves as affronted , and indeed de- frauded , when this compliment is omitted . " Even in familiar vifits amongst inferior ...
... hand . All great men expect it as a kind of tribute due to their character and authority ; and look upon " themselves as affronted , and indeed de- frauded , when this compliment is omitted . " Even in familiar vifits amongst inferior ...
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... hands ; or if our countrymen , that refide in the Levant , were to furnifh us with minute accounts of the prefents made there which come to their knowledge , it would be not only an amufing curiofity , but would enable us , I make no ...
... hands ; or if our countrymen , that refide in the Levant , were to furnifh us with minute accounts of the prefents made there which come to their knowledge , it would be not only an amufing curiofity , but would enable us , I make no ...
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... have just « obferved , to fend prefents before - hand , 66 ♧ Let . 11. p . 137 . pro- * proportionate to their rank , and the num- " 66 Of the Methods of doing Perfons Honour Thus the making prefents of eatables, not ...
... have just « obferved , to fend prefents before - hand , 66 ♧ Let . 11. p . 137 . pro- * proportionate to their rank , and the num- " 66 Of the Methods of doing Perfons Honour Thus the making prefents of eatables, not ...
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... hand over the place , and re- . cover the leper " , " confifted of ten talents of filver , and fix thousand pieces of gold , and ten changes of raiment . It is needlefs to mention the pecuniary gratifications have been given to men of ...
... hand over the place , and re- . cover the leper " , " confifted of ten talents of filver , and fix thousand pieces of gold , and ten changes of raiment . It is needlefs to mention the pecuniary gratifications have been given to men of ...
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... hands in it as might be , conformably to the modern ritual of the Eaftern courts . But what I chiefly take notice of it for , is to il- lustrate the account that is given us of Ben- hadad's prefent to the Prophet Elifha , which ...
... hands in it as might be , conformably to the modern ritual of the Eaftern courts . But what I chiefly take notice of it for , is to il- lustrate the account that is given us of Ben- hadad's prefent to the Prophet Elifha , which ...
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