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 15
... tents , and ordered fupper to be got ready . Nothing , " fays d'Arvieux , " was more eafy ; for every body at Tar- toura , " ( in the neighbourhood of which town the Emir then was , ) " vyed with each " other as to the prefents they ...
... tents , and ordered fupper to be got ready . Nothing , " fays d'Arvieux , " was more eafy ; for every body at Tar- toura , " ( in the neighbourhood of which town the Emir then was , ) " vyed with each " other as to the prefents they ...
Page 60
... tent , pitched in the middle of an en- campment of Arabs ; and the Bey of Girge as placed on a fopha in the corner , ( to the right as one entered , ) of his tent " . This is enough to fatisfy us that the place of honour among them is ...
... tent , pitched in the middle of an en- campment of Arabs ; and the Bey of Girge as placed on a fopha in the corner , ( to the right as one entered , ) of his tent " . This is enough to fatisfy us that the place of honour among them is ...
Page 90
... tents , fabres , faddles and bridles adorned with jewels , rich housings and harnesses , to the value of 200,000 crowns were confumed . Of the reft , the veffels of filver and the spices may be illuftrated by that ftory of d'Herbelot ...
... tents , fabres , faddles and bridles adorned with jewels , rich housings and harnesses , to the value of 200,000 crowns were confumed . Of the reft , the veffels of filver and the spices may be illuftrated by that ftory of d'Herbelot ...
Page 110
... tent where she alighted . They then all fung together the beauty , birth , and good qualities of this princess . Doth not this account illuftrate a paffage * of the Prophet Nahum , where he speaks of Voy . dans la Pal . p . 249 . • Ch ...
... tent where she alighted . They then all fung together the beauty , birth , and good qualities of this princess . Doth not this account illuftrate a paffage * of the Prophet Nahum , where he speaks of Voy . dans la Pal . p . 249 . • Ch ...
Page 127
... tents carried along with them , as perfons of more than ordi- nary rank and condition are fuppofed by Dr. Shaw now to do ' . For thefe reafons we may poffibly have been extremely fur- prized at that paffage concerning Saul , i Sam ...
... tents carried along with them , as perfons of more than ordi- nary rank and condition are fuppofed by Dr. Shaw now to do ' . For thefe reafons we may poffibly have been extremely fur- prized at that paffage concerning Saul , i Sam ...
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