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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Page vii
... refer : I discerned this in my first voyage to the Indies ; for I gradually found a greater sense and beauty in divers passages of scripture than I had before , by having in my view the things , either natural or moral , which explained ...
... refer : I discerned this in my first voyage to the Indies ; for I gradually found a greater sense and beauty in divers passages of scripture than I had before , by having in my view the things , either natural or moral , which explained ...
Page xiv
... refer for informa- tion , on such passages of scripture as appear ob- scure and difficult , at least those which are to be explained by the method here adopted . Two indexes , one of scriptures incidentally illustrated , and the other ...
... refer for informa- tion , on such passages of scripture as appear ob- scure and difficult , at least those which are to be explained by the method here adopted . Two indexes , one of scriptures incidentally illustrated , and the other ...
Page 23
... refers to in these words : Thou shalt be over my house , and according unto thy word , or on account of thy word , shall all my people KISS ( for so it is in the original ) only in the throne will I be greater than thou ; that is , I ...
... refers to in these words : Thou shalt be over my house , and according unto thy word , or on account of thy word , shall all my people KISS ( for so it is in the original ) only in the throne will I be greater than thou ; that is , I ...
Page 38
... refer to the making of an agreement wherein salt was used as a token of confir- mation . Baron Du Tott , speaking of one who was de- sirous of his acquaintance , says , upon his departure , " he promised in a short time to return . I ...
... refer to the making of an agreement wherein salt was used as a token of confir- mation . Baron Du Tott , speaking of one who was de- sirous of his acquaintance , says , upon his departure , " he promised in a short time to return . I ...
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... refers , when she says , In the days of Shamgar , the son of Anath , in the days of Jael , the highways were unoccupied , and the travellers walked through by - ways . The account Pococke gives of the manner in which the Arab , under ...
... refers , when she says , In the days of Shamgar , the son of Anath , in the days of Jael , the highways were unoccupied , and the travellers walked through by - ways . The account Pococke gives of the manner in which the Arab , under ...
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