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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... Kings xiv . 3. I very much queftion , however , whether that was any part of the disguise the affumed , as an emi- nent Prelate fuppofes ' , who imagines the prefented him with fuch things as might make the Prophet think her to be a ...
... Kings xiv . 3. I very much queftion , however , whether that was any part of the disguise the affumed , as an emi- nent Prelate fuppofes ' , who imagines the prefented him with fuch things as might make the Prophet think her to be a ...
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... king over Ifrael ! But though this feems to have been the original 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 ...
... king over Ifrael ! But though this feems to have been the original 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 ...
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... Kings of Afia almost always make prefents of this 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 ...
... Kings of Afia almost always make prefents of this 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 ...
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... king when he was inaugurated ; but I do not know on what authority . The remark of Vatablus how- ever , in the fame collection , is without doubt very inaccurate , who , upon the Chaldee pa- raphraft's giving this fenfe of this claufe ...
... king when he was inaugurated ; but I do not know on what authority . The remark of Vatablus how- ever , in the fame collection , is without doubt very inaccurate , who , upon the Chaldee pa- raphraft's giving this fenfe of this claufe ...
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... king of Moab , which I was mentioning under the last Obfervation , was a kind of tribute , or an acknowledgment of inferiority and fubjection ; and the prefents that are fent to powerful princes , by other kings , are frequently looked ...
... king of Moab , which I was mentioning under the last Obfervation , was a kind of tribute , or an acknowledgment of inferiority and fubjection ; and the prefents that are fent to powerful princes , by other kings , are frequently looked ...
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