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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Page 91
... linen , juft as Tamar's garment is defcribed , 2 Sam . xiii . 18. ” 66 Two things , I think , are to be remarked here . In the first place , her garment of divers colours I fhould hardly imagine to be her drawers . Would he have rent ...
... linen , juft as Tamar's garment is defcribed , 2 Sam . xiii . 18. ” 66 Two things , I think , are to be remarked here . In the first place , her garment of divers colours I fhould hardly imagine to be her drawers . Would he have rent ...
Page 92
... linen , or cotton , or gauze , underneath their tunics . That the fleeves of thefe fhirts are wide and open , and that 66 thofe , particularly , of the women , are " oftentimes of the richest gauze , adorned " with different - coloured ...
... linen , or cotton , or gauze , underneath their tunics . That the fleeves of thefe fhirts are wide and open , and that 66 thofe , particularly , of the women , are " oftentimes of the richest gauze , adorned " with different - coloured ...
Page 155
... linen in " which they were wrapped but the bones , " and those half rotten . It is probable that " each confiderable family had one of these burial - places to themfelves ; that the niches " were defigned for the bodies of the heads 66 ...
... linen in " which they were wrapped but the bones , " and those half rotten . It is probable that " each confiderable family had one of these burial - places to themfelves ; that the niches " were defigned for the bodies of the heads 66 ...
Page 157
... linen , he fuppofes , could not have been taken from the body and head , in the manner in which it was found in the fepulchre , on account of its clinging fo faft from the viscous nature of thefe drugs , had they been fo foolish as to ...
... linen , he fuppofes , could not have been taken from the body and head , in the manner in which it was found in the fepulchre , on account of its clinging fo faft from the viscous nature of thefe drugs , had they been fo foolish as to ...
Page 159
... linen , the manner of fwathing , the balfam , and other parts of the Mummies of Egypt , ( in which country they had been a few months before , ) with thofe of Palmyra , they found their method of embalming exactly the fame . Zenobia ...
... linen , the manner of fwathing , the balfam , and other parts of the Mummies of Egypt , ( in which country they had been a few months before , ) with thofe of Palmyra , they found their method of embalming exactly the fame . Zenobia ...
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