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Page 221
I conclude , that C. Is the manner of beating mortar with a wooden this furnace in
our print , is the cabashen ; as it seems shovel , very different from the corn
shovel , whose very likely that the ashes which Moses threw tow name in Hebrew
...
I conclude , that C. Is the manner of beating mortar with a wooden this furnace in
our print , is the cabashen ; as it seems shovel , very different from the corn
shovel , whose very likely that the ashes which Moses threw tow name in Hebrew
...
Page 267
Is a kind of meditation , during which the party fied with private gratitude , but
proclaimed the favour repeats his prayers : and only uses his raised hands done
him , in a manner more noticeable than his ordiin order to keep his attention from
...
Is a kind of meditation , during which the party fied with private gratitude , but
proclaimed the favour repeats his prayers : and only uses his raised hands done
him , in a manner more noticeable than his ordiin order to keep his attention from
...
Page 303
We have therefore copied in our upper figure , his if the surface of the body bas
any irregularity , or delineation of the mechanisin of a fiy's foot ; and we gives way
in any manner , the fiy can suspend itself , or subjoio his explanation of it , p .
We have therefore copied in our upper figure , his if the surface of the body bas
any irregularity , or delineation of the mechanisin of a fiy's foot ; and we gives way
in any manner , the fiy can suspend itself , or subjoio his explanation of it , p .
Page 330
150 , ] two at the sides , one at the back , another hanging that it stood in an open
temple , or court , in form over all at top , in the manner of a canopy . The
somewhat like that in our print : that the king orwhole structure was about twenty
feet ...
150 , ] two at the sides , one at the back , another hanging that it stood in an open
temple , or court , in form over all at top , in the manner of a canopy . The
somewhat like that in our print : that the king orwhole structure was about twenty
feet ...
Page 497
His generation who shall declare ? a manner , because he was guilty of such a
crime , at A CORRESPONDENT bas obligingly communicated such a place , and
at such a time , and these are the the following note on this difficult passage of ...
His generation who shall declare ? a manner , because he was guilty of such a
crime , at A CORRESPONDENT bas obligingly communicated such a place , and
at such a time , and these are the the following note on this difficult passage of ...
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Page 343 - Thus saith the Lord ; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the Lord ; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
Page 497 - I spake openly to the world ; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple- whither the Jews always resort ; and in secret have I said nothing. 21 Why askest thou me? ask them which heard me, what I have said unto them: behold, they know what I said.
Page 445 - Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Page 463 - And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot : and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
Page 492 - And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
Page 436 - For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land...
Page 497 - In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.
Page 482 - And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord: and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
Page 456 - Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee : be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee : cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Page 429 - Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
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| Title | Calmet's Great Dictionary of the Holy Bible: Scripture illustrated, by means of natural science ... in two parts ... I, An expository index .. II, Inquiries and discussions ... conducted principally by the editor of Calmet's dictionary Volume 4 of Calmet's Great Dictionary of the Holy Bible: Historical, Critical, Geographical, and Etymological. With an Ample Chronological Table of the History of the Bible, Jewish Calendar, Tables of the Hebrew Coins, Weights and Measures, Augustin Calmet |
| Author | Augustin Calmet |
| Publisher | Samuel Etheridge, 1814 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 Jul 2007 |
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