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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... present is frequently a piece of mo- ney , and that of no very great value . So Dr. Pococke tells us , that he prefented an Arab Sheik of an illuftrious defcent on whom he waited , and who attended him to the an- cient Hierapolis , with ...
... present is frequently a piece of mo- ney , and that of no very great value . So Dr. Pococke tells us , that he prefented an Arab Sheik of an illuftrious defcent on whom he waited , and who attended him to the an- cient Hierapolis , with ...
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... present only fit for a country - woman to have made : for d'Arvieux tells us , that when he waited on an Arab Emir , his mother and fifter , to gratify whofe curiofity that vifit was made , fent him , early in the morning after his ar ...
... present only fit for a country - woman to have made : for d'Arvieux tells us , that when he waited on an Arab Emir , his mother and fifter , to gratify whofe curiofity that vifit was made , fent him , early in the morning after his ar ...
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... present then of Jeroboam's wife did not discover her quality , but it was not fo mean a prefent as the Bi- shop ... presents made there on the ac- count of the circumcifion of the Grand Sig- nior's children , tell us that all thefe dona ...
... present then of Jeroboam's wife did not discover her quality , but it was not fo mean a prefent as the Bi- shop ... presents made there on the ac- count of the circumcifion of the Grand Sig- nior's children , tell us that all thefe dona ...
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... presents of fowls , " fheep , rice , coffee , and other provifions of " different kinds . Thefe vifits , which rela- ❝tions and friends make regularly to each " other , were in ufe among the ancient 66 66 66 Egyptians , and though they ...
... presents of fowls , " fheep , rice , coffee , and other provifions of " different kinds . Thefe vifits , which rela- ❝tions and friends make regularly to each " other , were in ufe among the ancient 66 66 66 Egyptians , and though they ...
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... present him with eatables than other things , because it frequently happened that they were de- tained there fome ... presents to their avowed rank and number of attend- ants . The prefent of Jeroboam's wife was that of a woman in ...
... present him with eatables than other things , because it frequently happened that they were de- tained there fome ... presents to their avowed rank and number of attend- ants . The prefent of Jeroboam's wife was that of a woman in ...
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