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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... 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 upon in this light by those that receive them ...
... 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 upon in this light by those that receive them ...
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... last - mentioned au- thor tells us , he faw the Grand Signior him- felf pay the people , when he rode through the streets of Conftantinople in great ftate , " He faluted all the people , having his right - hand conftantly on his breast ...
... last - mentioned au- thor tells us , he faw the Grand Signior him- felf pay the people , when he rode through the streets of Conftantinople in great ftate , " He faluted all the people , having his right - hand conftantly on his breast ...
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... last Observation , that the people of Conftantinople wished the Grand Seignior , when he faluted them as he rode through their streets , all happiness and prof- perity , with a low and respectful voice . I do not however apprehend ...
... last Observation , that the people of Conftantinople wished the Grand Seignior , when he faluted them as he rode through their streets , all happiness and prof- perity , with a low and respectful voice . I do not however apprehend ...
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... last place fhews , that the ancient Eastern mittah was much larger than the beds the old Greeks and Romans used in their repasts , fince Haman went up , and proftrated him- felf before queen Efther , on the mittah where she was fitting ...
... last place fhews , that the ancient Eastern mittah was much larger than the beds the old Greeks and Romans used in their repasts , fince Haman went up , and proftrated him- felf before queen Efther , on the mittah where she was fitting ...
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... last words , thou didst divide them by angles , that “ is , he parted thofe kingdoms among them " as by a line . But others understand it of " the people difpoffeffed by the Jews , whom " he drove into corners . " I believe most people ...
... last words , thou didst divide them by angles , that “ is , he parted thofe kingdoms among them " as by a line . But others understand it of " the people difpoffeffed by the Jews , whom " he drove into corners . " I believe most people ...
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