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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... Roman Classics , and of the Greek and Latin Fathers and others , from the first attempt by William Caxton down to the present year . An account of the principal Works in Arabic and Persian , printed or MS . with such Translations of ...
... Roman Classics , and of the Greek and Latin Fathers and others , from the first attempt by William Caxton down to the present year . An account of the principal Works in Arabic and Persian , printed or MS . with such Translations of ...
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... Romans till many ages after the Hebrew judges . " No nation of antiquity knew the use of either saddles or stirrups ; " ( GOGUET , Origin of Laws , vol . iii . p . 172. English edit . ) and even in our own times Hasselquist , when at ...
... Romans till many ages after the Hebrew judges . " No nation of antiquity knew the use of either saddles or stirrups ; " ( GOGUET , Origin of Laws , vol . iii . p . 172. English edit . ) and even in our own times Hasselquist , when at ...
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... Roman coins . Thus the Attic mina and the Roman libra equally sig- nify a pound ; and the orare ( stater ) of the Greeks , so called from weighing , is decisive as to this point . The Jewish shekel , was also a weight as well as a coin ...
... Roman coins . Thus the Attic mina and the Roman libra equally sig- nify a pound ; and the orare ( stater ) of the Greeks , so called from weighing , is decisive as to this point . The Jewish shekel , was also a weight as well as a coin ...
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... Romans , who looked upon showers of stones as very disastrous , have noticed many instances of them . instances of them . Under the reign of Tullius Hostilius , when it was known to the people of Rome that a shower of stones had fallen ...
... Romans , who looked upon showers of stones as very disastrous , have noticed many instances of them . instances of them . Under the reign of Tullius Hostilius , when it was known to the people of Rome that a shower of stones had fallen ...
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... Romans called carnifices , or public executioners ; and therefore Saul bade such as waited on him to kill the priests , and Doeg , one of his chief officers , did it . " PATRICK , in loc . No. 97. xxiv . 12. The Lord judge between me ...
... Romans called carnifices , or public executioners ; and therefore Saul bade such as waited on him to kill the priests , and Doeg , one of his chief officers , did it . " PATRICK , in loc . No. 97. xxiv . 12. The Lord judge between me ...
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