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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... occasions of great and pressing emergency , as a kind of divine oracles , and were suspended , either round the neck ... occasion of the idolatry in succeeding ages , to these shapeless masses of unhewn stone , of which so many astonish ...
... occasions of great and pressing emergency , as a kind of divine oracles , and were suspended , either round the neck ... occasion of the idolatry in succeeding ages , to these shapeless masses of unhewn stone , of which so many astonish ...
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... occasions , there appears peculiar propriety in the complaint of Laban . HARMER , vol . i . p . 435 . No. 21. - xxxi . 34. The camel's furniture . ] PocOCKE informs us , that " one method of conveyance , still used in the East , is by ...
... occasions , there appears peculiar propriety in the complaint of Laban . HARMER , vol . i . p . 435 . No. 21. - xxxi . 34. The camel's furniture . ] PocOCKE informs us , that " one method of conveyance , still used in the East , is by ...
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... occasions I found the weather as piercing cold as it was distressfully hot in the day time . " Hence we may clearly see the force and propriety of Jacob's com- plaint . No. 23. xxxi . 46. And Jacob said unto his bre- thren , gather ...
... occasions I found the weather as piercing cold as it was distressfully hot in the day time . " Hence we may clearly see the force and propriety of Jacob's com- plaint . No. 23. xxxi . 46. And Jacob said unto his bre- thren , gather ...
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... occasion to be sparing of their fuel as any people , and especially when journey- ing in the wilderness , Mr. Harmer ( vol . i . p . 268. ) considers this quotation as a more satisfactory commen- tary on this passage than any which has ...
... occasion to be sparing of their fuel as any people , and especially when journey- ing in the wilderness , Mr. Harmer ( vol . i . p . 268. ) considers this quotation as a more satisfactory commen- tary on this passage than any which has ...
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... occasions : but now that the Arabs in these deserts are every where without government , the trade between Abyssinia and Cairo given over , that between Sudan and the metropolis much diminished , the importance of the office of hybeer ...
... occasions : but now that the Arabs in these deserts are every where without government , the trade between Abyssinia and Cairo given over , that between Sudan and the metropolis much diminished , the importance of the office of hybeer ...
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