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 48
... travellers Årst waited on him , and then kiffed it , declaring himself the Sultan's flave's flave " . Is not this what Pharaoh refers to in Gen. xli . 40 ? Thou shalt be over my house , and according unto thy word , or on account of thy ...
... travellers Årst waited on him , and then kiffed it , declaring himself the Sultan's flave's flave " . Is not this what Pharaoh refers to in Gen. xli . 40 ? Thou shalt be over my house , and according unto thy word , or on account of thy ...
Page 82
... travellers have taken little notice of the coincidence between the remaining ori- ental customs and paffages of Scripture , ex- cept in very striking cafes . And as to the firft , writers feem to be fometimes ftrangely difpofed to think ...
... travellers have taken little notice of the coincidence between the remaining ori- ental customs and paffages of Scripture , ex- cept in very striking cafes . And as to the firft , writers feem to be fometimes ftrangely difpofed to think ...
Page 104
... travellers , Dr. Ruffell in particu- lar ' , that they have frankly confeffed , that a great man of the Eaft riding on horfeback , and attended by his fervants , has appeared much more stately and dignified to them , than one of ours ...
... travellers , Dr. Ruffell in particu- lar ' , that they have frankly confeffed , that a great man of the Eaft riding on horfeback , and attended by his fervants , has appeared much more stately and dignified to them , than one of ours ...
Page 117
... travellers , that it is a mat- ter of state and magnificence . So Thevenot tells us , that when he faw the Grand Seignior go to the new mofque , he was clad in a fattin doliman of a flesh colour , and a veft of almoft the fame co- • See ...
... travellers , that it is a mat- ter of state and magnificence . So Thevenot tells us , that when he faw the Grand Seignior go to the new mofque , he was clad in a fattin doliman of a flesh colour , and a veft of almoft the fame co- • See ...
Page 126
... travelling might make ufe of trees for fhelter from the heat , we may perhaps think it almost incredible that kings fhould , imagining that either pro- 3 Vol . 1. p . 57 . [ * St. Luke does not mention the quality of him that made the ...
... travelling might make ufe of trees for fhelter from the heat , we may perhaps think it almost incredible that kings fhould , imagining that either pro- 3 Vol . 1. p . 57 . [ * St. Luke does not mention the quality of him that made the ...
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