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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... Perhaps we shall be less furprised after reading this , at the basons and earthen vessels prefented to David at Maha- naim , by fome of the great men of that part of the country , along with sheep , flour , honey , & c . 2 Sam . xvii ...
... Perhaps we shall be less furprised after reading this , at the basons and earthen vessels prefented to David at Maha- naim , by fome of the great men of that part of the country , along with sheep , flour , honey , & c . 2 Sam . xvii ...
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... perhaps of this kind are re- ferred to by the Prophet Amos , chap . ii . 6 , where fhoes have been commonly , and it ap- pears from hence with juftness , understood to mean something of a trifling value . < 6 66 The Turkish officers ...
... perhaps of this kind are re- ferred to by the Prophet Amos , chap . ii . 6 , where fhoes have been commonly , and it ap- pears from hence with juftness , understood to mean something of a trifling value . < 6 66 The Turkish officers ...
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... Perhaps we may be ready to imagine , pre- fents of this kind were only made to travel- lers , that wanted provifions ; but this would be a mistake . Sir John Chardin , in his MS , exprefsly tells us , it is the custom of the Eaft for ...
... Perhaps we may be ready to imagine , pre- fents of this kind were only made to travel- lers , that wanted provifions ; but this would be a mistake . Sir John Chardin , in his MS , exprefsly tells us , it is the custom of the Eaft for ...
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... perhaps it doth not contain the whole of what they meant . OBSERVATION XII . People that go into the prefence of the Great carry with them fome gift to make way for them , or fend it before them ; on the contrary , when a fuperior ...
... perhaps it doth not contain the whole of what they meant . OBSERVATION XII . People that go into the prefence of the Great carry with them fome gift to make way for them , or fend it before them ; on the contrary , when a fuperior ...
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... perhaps to sof- ten this impropriety ; but if fo , it is ufed in vain , for an inhabitant of the Eaft would feel no inclination to kiss the lips of a righ- teous judge . St. John , who found emo- tions of veneration , which were ...
... perhaps to sof- ten this impropriety ; but if fo , it is ufed in vain , for an inhabitant of the Eaft would feel no inclination to kiss the lips of a righ- teous judge . St. John , who found emo- tions of veneration , which were ...
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