Oriental Customs, Or, An Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures: By an Explanatory Application of the Customs and Manners of the Eastern Nations, and Especially the Jews, Therein Alluded to : Collected from the Most Celebrated Travellers, and the Most Eminent Critics |
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... Persia , p . vi . ) The language of the scriptures is highly figu- rative . It abounds with allusions and metaphors , and from this source obtains many of its beauties . The objects of nature , and the manners of na- tions , are ...
... Persia , p . vi . ) The language of the scriptures is highly figu- rative . It abounds with allusions and metaphors , and from this source obtains many of its beauties . The objects of nature , and the manners of na- tions , are ...
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... Persian , printed or MS . with such Translations of them as have already appeared in English . History and origin of Printing ; list of Authors on Bibliography , Typography , & c .; list of all the Cities and Towns in Europe where ...
... Persian , printed or MS . with such Translations of them as have already appeared in English . History and origin of Printing ; list of Authors on Bibliography , Typography , & c .; list of all the Cities and Towns in Europe where ...
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... Persian legislator wrote of the advent of the Messiah in terms even more express than those contained in the foregoing predic- tion . " Zeradusht , " says he , " the preceptor of the magi , taught the Persians concerning the manifesta ...
... Persian legislator wrote of the advent of the Messiah in terms even more express than those contained in the foregoing predic- tion . " Zeradusht , " says he , " the preceptor of the magi , taught the Persians concerning the manifesta ...
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... Persians hang over camels in the manner of panniers , and are big enough for one person to sit in . " No. 22. — xxxi . 40. In the day the drought consumed me , and the frost by night . ] " In Europe the days . and nights resemble each ...
... Persians hang over camels in the manner of panniers , and are big enough for one person to sit in . " No. 22. — xxxi . 40. In the day the drought consumed me , and the frost by night . ] " In Europe the days . and nights resemble each ...
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... Persia and Tur- key they always make use of furred habits in the coun- try , such only being sufficient to resist the cold of the nights . " ( Chardin in Harmer , vol . i . p . 74. ) Campbell ( Travels , part ii . p . 100 , ) says ...
... Persia and Tur- key they always make use of furred habits in the coun- try , such only being sufficient to resist the cold of the nights . " ( Chardin in Harmer , vol . i . p . 74. ) Campbell ( Travels , part ii . p . 100 , ) says ...
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Abyssinia agreeable Aleppo alluded allusion amongst ancient apostle appears Arabs boards bread called camel caravanserais carried ceremony Chardin says chres Christ circumstance cloth common court custom dead death deities describes Diodorus Siculus divine DODDRIDGE earth East eastern edition Egypt Egyptian expression Ezekiel feast feet fire frequently gate give Greeks ground hand HARMER hath head heathens Hebrew Herodotus Hist honour horse Iliad Isaiah Israel Israelites Jerusalem Jews Judea kind king kings of Persia Lord manner MAUNDRELL mentioned Mingrelia mountain nations observed occasion passage Persian person Plutarch practice present prince probably prophet Psalm refers remarkable Romans sacred sacrifice salt scribes scriptures seal seems Septuagint sepulchres servants shekels shew signifies sometimes sort speaking stone supposed Syria temple thee thing thou tion Trav Travels trees Turks unto vessel walls wine women words writing