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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... must be brought to him , otherwise he should fee no more , with which demand he complied . In one cafe a piece of money was expected , in the other two fequins demanded . A trifling prefent of money to a perfon of distinction amongst us ...
... must be brought to him , otherwise he should fee no more , with which demand he complied . In one cafe a piece of money was expected , in the other two fequins demanded . A trifling prefent of money to a perfon of distinction amongst us ...
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... must have been an egregiously negligent observer ; yet we find him , in his comment on Micah iii . 11 , roundly declaring , that by a Prophet's receiving money , his prophefying became divi- nation . And when he afterwards mentions this ...
... must have been an egregiously negligent observer ; yet we find him , in his comment on Micah iii . 11 , roundly declaring , that by a Prophet's receiving money , his prophefying became divi- nation . And when he afterwards mentions this ...
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... must be extremely un- qualified to judge of thefe oriental compli- ments . In what light might an European wit place the prefent of a Governor of an Ægyptian village , who fent to a British Con- ful fifty eggs as a mark of respect , and ...
... must be extremely un- qualified to judge of thefe oriental compli- ments . In what light might an European wit place the prefent of a Governor of an Ægyptian village , who fent to a British Con- ful fifty eggs as a mark of respect , and ...
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... must be his furprize , firft to be treated with diftinguished honour in a large company , and then to be anointed king over Ifrael ! But though this feems to have been the original ground , of prefenting common eat- ables to perfons who ...
... must be his furprize , firft to be treated with diftinguished honour in a large company , and then to be anointed king over Ifrael ! But though this feems to have been the original ground , of prefenting common eat- ables to perfons who ...
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... must have been very different in the Eaft an- ciently , from what they are now , if every vifit did not require an acknowledgment of this kind . As to the ground of the complaint then that they brought him no prefent , I fubmit it to ...
... must have been very different in the Eaft an- ciently , from what they are now , if every vifit did not require an acknowledgment of this kind . As to the ground of the complaint then that they brought him no prefent , I fubmit it to ...
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