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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... 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 " people , you fhall feldom have them ...
... 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 " people , you fhall feldom have them ...
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... kind I am now making . How much happier was the cultivation of Mr. Maundrell's genius than of St. Jerome's ! Though this father lived so many years in the East , and might have advan- tageoufly applied the remains of their ancient ...
... kind I am now making . How much happier was the cultivation of Mr. Maundrell's genius than of St. Jerome's ! Though this father lived so many years in the East , and might have advan- tageoufly applied the remains of their ancient ...
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... kind to Ambaffadors , and to other ftrangers of confidera- tion who have brought them prefents . So the Khalife Mahadi , according to d'Herbelot , gave an Arab that had entertained him in the desert , a veft , and a purfe of filver ...
... kind to Ambaffadors , and to other ftrangers of confidera- tion who have brought them prefents . So the Khalife Mahadi , according to d'Herbelot , gave an Arab that had entertained him in the desert , a veft , and a purfe of filver ...
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... kind are made in the Levant to men of study : and at the same time a fine illuftration of Job's defcription of the treasures of the East in his days , con- fifting of raiment as well as filver , Job . xxvii . 16 , 178 . OBSERVATION III ...
... kind are made in the Levant to men of study : and at the same time a fine illuftration of Job's defcription of the treasures of the East in his days , con- fifting of raiment as well as filver , Job . xxvii . 16 , 178 . OBSERVATION III ...
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... kind , along with provifions , and this apparently becaufe they are of great ufe in that country for cool- ing their water . Perhaps we shall be less furprised after reading this , at the basons and earthen vessels prefented to David at ...
... kind , along with provifions , and this apparently becaufe they are of great ufe in that country for cool- ing their water . Perhaps we shall be less furprised after reading this , at the basons and earthen vessels prefented to David at ...
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