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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... mark of respect , and that in a country where they are fo cheap as to be fold at the rate of ten for a penny ' ? 5 Prophetæ Hierufalem in pecunia divinabant , nefcien- tes aliud effe prophetiam , aliud divinationem : Vide- bantur fibi ...
... mark of respect , and that in a country where they are fo cheap as to be fold at the rate of ten for a penny ' ? 5 Prophetæ Hierufalem in pecunia divinabant , nefcien- tes aliud effe prophetiam , aliud divinationem : Vide- bantur fibi ...
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... marks of civility and favour : " he fent us , in return of our prefents , feve- " ral fheep , a good quantity of bread , eggs , 66 bardacks , & c . ' . " Thefe bardacks he had described a little before , in fpeaking of a town called ...
... marks of civility and favour : " he fent us , in return of our prefents , feve- " ral fheep , a good quantity of bread , eggs , 66 bardacks , & c . ' . " Thefe bardacks he had described a little before , in fpeaking of a town called ...
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... mark of friendship from the Conful of France , for whom his was the moft fincere 2 . This was very ext : aordinary , Maillet fays , indeed the most extraordinary thing in that folemnity , which he reprefents as one of the most pompous ...
... mark of friendship from the Conful of France , for whom his was the moft fincere 2 . This was very ext : aordinary , Maillet fays , indeed the most extraordinary thing in that folemnity , which he reprefents as one of the most pompous ...
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... marks of attention paid to potent princes . ] OBSERVATION VIII . Maillet , in that paffage I quoted in the laft article but one , fpeaks diminutively of the cobcal , or wooden fandals of the ladies , which are carried in their nuptial ...
... marks of attention paid to potent princes . ] OBSERVATION VIII . Maillet , in that paffage I quoted in the laft article but one , fpeaks diminutively of the cobcal , or wooden fandals of the ladies , which are carried in their nuptial ...
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... Mark vii . 25 , 26 ; not to mention the in- stances of remoter antiquity in the Old Tes- tament . It is agreed , that there is fomething very graceful and noble in the forms of Eaft- ern falutation 10 ; fome of them however have ...
... Mark vii . 25 , 26 ; not to mention the in- stances of remoter antiquity in the Old Tes- tament . It is agreed , that there is fomething very graceful and noble in the forms of Eaft- ern falutation 10 ; fome of them however have ...
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