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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Page 63
... probably , is an ancient one . On the mittah they used to fit to eat , as well as to fleep , as we learn from 1 Sam . xxviii . 23 , Amos vi . 4 , Efth . i . 6 , and ch . vii . 8 , and the last place fhews , that the ancient Eastern ...
... probably , is an ancient one . On the mittah they used to fit to eat , as well as to fleep , as we learn from 1 Sam . xxviii . 23 , Amos vi . 4 , Efth . i . 6 , and ch . vii . 8 , and the last place fhews , that the ancient Eastern ...
Page 115
... Probably David did not dance alone before the Lord , when the ark was removed , but led the dance in the fame authoritative kind of way . s Vol . 2. p . 45 , 46 . I 2 22 Sam . 6. 14 , 15 . Lady XXXII . Lady Montague was fo ftruck with ...
... Probably David did not dance alone before the Lord , when the ark was removed , but led the dance in the fame authoritative kind of way . s Vol . 2. p . 45 , 46 . I 2 22 Sam . 6. 14 , 15 . Lady XXXII . Lady Montague was fo ftruck with ...
Page 132
... probably , was not fo common as we may have been ready to fuppofe ; for though the word bracelet is frequently to be met with in our tranflation , the original word in this text occurs at most but in two other places ; and as the ...
... probably , was not fo common as we may have been ready to fuppofe ; for though the word bracelet is frequently to be met with in our tranflation , the original word in this text occurs at most but in two other places ; and as the ...
Page 135
... probably , were worn in the fame manner . OBSERVATION LIV . The affembling together of multitudes to the place where perfons have lately expired , and bewailing them in a noify manner , is a custom still retained in the Eaft , and feems ...
... probably , were worn in the fame manner . OBSERVATION LIV . The affembling together of multitudes to the place where perfons have lately expired , and bewailing them in a noify manner , is a custom still retained in the Eaft , and feems ...
Page 141
... probably is therefore to be understood in the fecond ' . ] OBSERVATION LVII . The burying of perfons in their cities is alfo an Eastern manner of doing them honour . They are in common buried without the walls of their towns , as it is ...
... probably is therefore to be understood in the fecond ' . ] OBSERVATION LVII . The burying of perfons in their cities is alfo an Eastern manner of doing them honour . They are in common buried without the walls of their towns , as it is ...
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