Oriental Customs: Or, an Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by an Explanatory Application of the Customs and Manners of the Eastern Nations, and Expecially the Jews, Therien Alluded To, Together with Observations on Many Difficult and Obscure Texts, Collected from the Most Celebrated Travellers, and the Most Eminent Critics, Volume 1 |
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... and having , at that time , myself an idea of penetrating into Abyssinia , I was very inquisitive about that country , on hearing many things from him which seemed almost incredible to me ; I used to ask his Greek servant Michael ...
... and having , at that time , myself an idea of penetrating into Abyssinia , I was very inquisitive about that country , on hearing many things from him which seemed almost incredible to me ; I used to ask his Greek servant Michael ...
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Such were not known to the Greeks and 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 . ) ...
Such were not known to the Greeks and 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 . ) ...
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Thus the Attic mina and the Roman libra equally signify a pound ; and the Tarng ( stater ) of the Greeks , so called from weighing , is decisive as to this point . The Jewish sheckel was also a weight as well as a coin ; three thousand ...
Thus the Attic mina and the Roman libra equally signify a pound ; and the Tarng ( stater ) of the Greeks , so called from weighing , is decisive as to this point . The Jewish sheckel was also a weight as well as a coin ; three thousand ...
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Speaking of the Greek convent at Bellmount , near Tripoli , in Syria , he says , " the same person whom we saw officiating at the altar in his embroidered sacerdotal robe brought us the next day , on his own back , a kid and a goats ...
Speaking of the Greek convent at Bellmount , near Tripoli , in Syria , he says , " the same person whom we saw officiating at the altar in his embroidered sacerdotal robe brought us the next day , on his own back , a kid and a goats ...
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has some curious reflections on the custom of catching omens , which was common amongst the Greeks , and which he conceives to be of great antiquity , and also of eastern origin . " That it was practised by the Jews , is by some ...
has some curious reflections on the custom of catching omens , which was common amongst the Greeks , and which he conceives to be of great antiquity , and also of eastern origin . " That it was practised by the Jews , is by some ...
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| Title | Oriental Customs: Or, an Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by an Explanatory Application of the Customs and Manners of the Eastern Nations, and Expecially the Jews, Therien Alluded To, Together with Observations on Many Difficult and Obscure Texts, Collected from the Most ..., Volume 1 Volume 1 of Oriental Customs: Or an Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, Samuel Burder Oriental Customs: Or, an Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by an Explanatory Application of the Customs and Manners of the Eastern Nations, and Expecially the Jews, Therien Alluded To, Together with Observations on Many Difficult and Obscure Texts, Collected from the Most Celebrated Travellers, and the Most Eminent Critics, Samuel Burder |
| Author | Samuel Burder |
| Publisher | William W. Woodward, 1804 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 25 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 431 pages |
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