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 59
... Sometimes whole Caravans have " been buried by this means under the fand , " with which this wind is frequently charg- " ed " . " This paffage fhows with how much pro- priety whirlwinds of the South are mention- ed : they are chiefly ...
... Sometimes whole Caravans have " been buried by this means under the fand , " with which this wind is frequently charg- " ed " . " This paffage fhows with how much pro- priety whirlwinds of the South are mention- ed : they are chiefly ...
Page 132
... sometimes by gathering up the wounded place , in manner of a purfe ; fometimes they put in a round flat piece of wood , and by that means ftop the hole . In the fixth volume of his MS . he has given us , at large , an amusing account of ...
... sometimes by gathering up the wounded place , in manner of a purfe ; fometimes they put in a round flat piece of wood , and by that means ftop the hole . In the fixth volume of his MS . he has given us , at large , an amusing account of ...
Page 149
... sometimes in them , pitched in fum- mer - heats in fome cool and delightful fpot , like the first princes of the late royal race of Perfia , or erected in other places , for his ac- commodation in hunting , like that more mo- dern ...
... sometimes in them , pitched in fum- mer - heats in fome cool and delightful fpot , like the first princes of the late royal race of Perfia , or erected in other places , for his ac- commodation in hunting , like that more mo- dern ...
Page 150
... sometimes fufpended over the beds , in times at least of great folemnity for fo he defcribes the bed in which Ibrahim Bey , the fon of the Bafhaw of Egypt , was to lodge after his circumcifion . " An angel - bed , " he tells us , ( by ...
... sometimes fufpended over the beds , in times at least of great folemnity for fo he defcribes the bed in which Ibrahim Bey , the fon of the Bafhaw of Egypt , was to lodge after his circumcifion . " An angel - bed , " he tells us , ( by ...
Page 165
... sometimes could hardly be borne in common life , in these very fultry regions . Agreeably to this , Maillet remarks , that in Ægypt , they fleep each in a separate bed : that not only do the husband and the wife lie in two distinct beds ...
... sometimes could hardly be borne in common life , in these very fultry regions . Agreeably to this , Maillet remarks , that in Ægypt , they fleep each in a separate bed : that not only do the husband and the wife lie in two distinct beds ...
Common terms and phrases
according Ægypt affures againſt agreeable Aleppo alfo alſo ancient anfwer appears Arabs baked Barbary barley becauſe befides bread Chardin circumftance confequently confiderable corn cuſtom d'Arvieux defcribes deferts defigned diftinction doth Eaft Eaſt Eaſtern Egmont and Heyman Egypt exprefs facred faid fame fays fecond feems fent ferved feveral fhall fhould fide fignifies fince firft firſt fmall fome fomething fometimes fpeaks ftill fuch fufficient fummer fuppofe himſelf Holy-Land honey houfes houſes Ifrael Ifraelites illuftrate imagine Jerufalem Judæa Kenites kind Kings lefs Maillet manner mentioned Mofes moft moſt muft muſt obferved occafion paffage Perfia perfons places Pococke prefent Prophet publiſhed purpoſe rain reafon Ruffell ſeems Septuagint Shaw Sir John Chardin Solomon ſpeak ſuppoſed tells tents thefe themſelves theſe theſe countries Thevenot thing thofe thoſe tion tranflated travellers ufual underſtand underſtood uſed veffel wine wont word