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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... head , which poffibly may not be ungrateful to the curious reader , and which therefore I fhall here fet down . I fuppofe my reader acquainted with Maundrell ; but it will be proper , for the fake of perfpicuity , firft to recite at ...
... head , which poffibly may not be ungrateful to the curious reader , and which therefore I fhall here fet down . I fuppofe my reader acquainted with Maundrell ; but it will be proper , for the fake of perfpicuity , firft to recite at ...
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... heads with their thumbs . When they can not kifs the hand of a fuperior , they kifs their own , and put it , it seems , to their foreheads ; they venerate an unfeen Being , whom they cannot touch , in much the fame way . After a like ...
... heads with their thumbs . When they can not kifs the hand of a fuperior , they kifs their own , and put it , it seems , to their foreheads ; they venerate an unfeen Being , whom they cannot touch , in much the fame way . After a like ...
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... , lifted it to their heads , and kiff- ing it , civilly difmiffed them . Tom . I. p . 94 , 95 . Voy . dans la Pal . p . 155 . 1 fomething fomething of the like turn of expreffion , A crown 52 Of the Methods of doing Perfons Honour.
... , lifted it to their heads , and kiff- ing it , civilly difmiffed them . Tom . I. p . 94 , 95 . Voy . dans la Pal . p . 155 . 1 fomething fomething of the like turn of expreffion , A crown 52 Of the Methods of doing Perfons Honour.
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... head , in the way of righteousness it shall be found : that is , the hoary head is a crown of glory , when it is found in the way of righteousness . OBSERVATION XXI . They that are more intimately acquainted , or of equal age and ...
... head , in the way of righteousness it shall be found : that is , the hoary head is a crown of glory , when it is found in the way of righteousness . OBSERVATION XXI . They that are more intimately acquainted , or of equal age and ...
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... head and beard3 . That paffage feems to fignify , that though the inhabitants of Je- rufalem had been dear to God as the hair of an eastern beard to its owner , yet that they fhould be taken away and confumed , one part by peftilence ...
... head and beard3 . That paffage feems to fignify , that though the inhabitants of Je- rufalem had been dear to God as the hair of an eastern beard to its owner , yet that they fhould be taken away and confumed , one part by peftilence ...
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