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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... allusions and metaphors , and from this source obtains many of its beauties . The objects of nature , and the manners of na- tions , are introduced to diversify and adorn the sacred page ; and many of the boldest and finest images ...
... allusions and metaphors , and from this source obtains many of its beauties . The objects of nature , and the manners of na- tions , are introduced to diversify and adorn the sacred page ; and many of the boldest and finest images ...
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... allusion to the popular notion of the two astronomical GATES , celestial and terrestrial , when in Matt . vii . 13. he said , Enter ye in at the strait GATE ; for wide is the GATE , and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction , and ...
... allusion to the popular notion of the two astronomical GATES , celestial and terrestrial , when in Matt . vii . 13. he said , Enter ye in at the strait GATE ; for wide is the GATE , and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction , and ...
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... allusion to an idolatrous and cruel rite , which was common among the Egyptians , and to which it is opposed as a contrast . They had several cities styled Typhonian , such as Heliopolis , Idithyia , Abarei , and Busiris ; in these , at ...
... allusion to an idolatrous and cruel rite , which was common among the Egyptians , and to which it is opposed as a contrast . They had several cities styled Typhonian , such as Heliopolis , Idithyia , Abarei , and Busiris ; in these , at ...
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... allusion to the manner in which the ancient Egyptians were accustomed to bury their dead . Maillet informs us , " that sometime before he wrote , the principal person of Sacara , a village near the plain where the mummies lie buried ...
... allusion to the manner in which the ancient Egyptians were accustomed to bury their dead . Maillet informs us , " that sometime before he wrote , the principal person of Sacara , a village near the plain where the mummies lie buried ...
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... allude to a custom among the kings of the east , when they were thoroughly incensed against any nation - to make all the captives come to- gether in one place , and prostrate themselves upon the ground , that , being divided into two ...
... allude to a custom among the kings of the east , when they were thoroughly incensed against any nation - to make all the captives come to- gether in one place , and prostrate themselves upon the ground , that , being divided into two ...
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