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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... Princes and Great Perfonages . So Sir J. Chardin obferves , in his MS , on occafion of Joseph's being faid to have given Ben- jamin three hundred pieces of filver , Gen. 45 , 22 , that the Kings of Afia almost always make prefents of ...
... Princes and Great Perfonages . So Sir J. Chardin obferves , in his MS , on occafion of Joseph's being faid to have given Ben- jamin three hundred pieces of filver , Gen. 45 , 22 , that the Kings of Afia almost always make prefents of ...
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... princes were treat- ed ; and confequently acknowledging him , in the best manner , their fovereign , while the greatest part of the Ifraelites were in rebel- lion against him . OBSERVATION VI . There is often in these countries a great ...
... princes were treat- ed ; and confequently acknowledging him , in the best manner , their fovereign , while the greatest part of the Ifraelites were in rebel- lion against him . OBSERVATION VI . There is often in these countries a great ...
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... prince , and the making ufe of as many hands in it as might be , conformably to the modern ritual of the Eaftern courts . But what I chiefly take notice of it for , is to il- lustrate the account that is given us of Ben- hadad's prefent ...
... prince , and the making ufe of as many hands in it as might be , conformably to the modern ritual of the Eaftern courts . But what I chiefly take notice of it for , is to il- lustrate the account that is given us of Ben- hadad's prefent ...
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... princes , by other kings , are frequently looked upon in this light by those that receive them . Sir J. Chardin has remarked , that prefents are viewed in this light , in fuch cafes , not only in Turkey , but almoft through all the ...
... princes , by other kings , are frequently looked upon in this light by those that receive them . Sir J. Chardin has remarked , that prefents are viewed in this light , in fuch cafes , not only in Turkey , but almoft through all the ...
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... princes might the more willingly fubmit , as there was an equivocalnefs in these marks of attention paid to potent princes . ] OBSERVATION VIII . Maillet , in that paffage I quoted in the laft article but one , fpeaks diminutively of ...
... princes might the more willingly fubmit , as there was an equivocalnefs in these marks of attention paid to potent princes . ] OBSERVATION VIII . Maillet , in that paffage I quoted in the laft article but one , fpeaks diminutively of ...
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