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 25
... bread and coffee , he , the Arab's wife , and fome other people , he tells us , fitting by a fire . He goes farther , for he fays that in the night of the 8th of May the Sheik of Sephoury , [ a place in Galilee , ] made them a fire , in ...
... bread and coffee , he , the Arab's wife , and fome other people , he tells us , fitting by a fire . He goes farther , for he fays that in the night of the 8th of May the Sheik of Sephoury , [ a place in Galilee , ] made them a fire , in ...
Page 42
... bread , but with thirft , for that in those countries , in which he then refided , except- ing a few fountains , they had only cistern- water , fo that if the divine anger fufpended the rains , there was more danger of perifh- ing by ...
... bread , but with thirft , for that in those countries , in which he then refided , except- ing a few fountains , they had only cistern- water , fo that if the divine anger fufpended the rains , there was more danger of perifh- ing by ...
Page 134
... bread among the afhes , he found the fmoke intolerable , the door being the only place by which it could get out of the hut . To the blackness of a goat - fkin bottle in a tent , but to the meanness alfo of fuch a drinking - veffel ...
... bread among the afhes , he found the fmoke intolerable , the door being the only place by which it could get out of the hut . To the blackness of a goat - fkin bottle in a tent , but to the meanness alfo of fuch a drinking - veffel ...
Page 231
... bread made into thin cakes , is baked either immediately upon the coals , or elfe in a Ta - jen , which he tells us is a fhal- low earthen veffel , like a frying - pan : and he cites the Septuagint , to fhew they fuppofed the pan ...
... bread made into thin cakes , is baked either immediately upon the coals , or elfe in a Ta - jen , which he tells us is a fhal- low earthen veffel , like a frying - pan : and he cites the Septuagint , to fhew they fuppofed the pan ...
Page 232
... bread in the deferts of Arabia on the ground , heated for that purpose by fire , covering their cakes of bread with afhes and coals , and turning them feveral times , until they were enough ; but that fome of the Arabians had in their ...
... bread in the deferts of Arabia on the ground , heated for that purpose by fire , covering their cakes of bread with afhes and coals , and turning them feveral times , until they were enough ; but that fome of the Arabians had in their ...
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