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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... things which they imagine may be acceptable , and in particular of con- veniences for the making their eating and drink ... thing more than what is mentioned Zech . 9. 3 , which I much question , I should say that poffibly , as the word ...
... things which they imagine may be acceptable , and in particular of con- veniences for the making their eating and drink ... thing more than what is mentioned Zech . 9. 3 , which I much question , I should say that poffibly , as the word ...
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... thing in that folemnity , which he reprefents as one of the most pompous fpectacles in the world . What * Let . 11. p . 136 . * Let . 10. p . 79 . the III . IV . the occafion of Ifhmael's departure from efta- blished in the Holy - Land .
... thing in that folemnity , which he reprefents as one of the most pompous fpectacles in the world . What * Let . 11. p . 136 . * Let . 10. p . 79 . the III . IV . the occafion of Ifhmael's departure from efta- blished in the Holy - Land .
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... thing down to the wooden fandals wrought with mother - of - pearl , which they call cobcal . And through oftentation ... things of value , they place in fifteen dishes what a fingle plate would very well hold . Something of this pomp ...
... thing down to the wooden fandals wrought with mother - of - pearl , which they call cobcal . And through oftentation ... things of value , they place in fifteen dishes what a fingle plate would very well hold . Something of this pomp ...
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... things of very little value are fometimes offered as prefents , those to whom prefents are made do not think themselves al- ways obliged graciously to accept every thing . that is brought , or even to diffemble their dif like ; they ...
... things of very little value are fometimes offered as prefents , those to whom prefents are made do not think themselves al- ways obliged graciously to accept every thing . that is brought , or even to diffemble their dif like ; they ...
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... thing more was intended , by what he pro- pofed to do , than what was done to Jere- miah by Nebuzar - adan the captain of Nebu- chadnezzar's guard , when he gave that pro- phet victuals and a reward , and let him 80.9 Jer . xl . 5 : and ...
... thing more was intended , by what he pro- pofed to do , than what was done to Jere- miah by Nebuzar - adan the captain of Nebu- chadnezzar's guard , when he gave that pro- phet victuals and a reward , and let him 80.9 Jer . xl . 5 : and ...
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