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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... thought more intelligible ) used such expressions as would accommodate the phrase to the places where they wrote , which did not only many times pervert the text , but often rendered the sense obscure , and sometimes absurd also .
... thought more intelligible ) used such expressions as would accommodate the phrase to the places where they wrote , which did not only many times pervert the text , but often rendered the sense obscure , and sometimes absurd also .
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The style is sometimes prolix , and difficult of conception , and the arrangement is certainly capable of improvement . On the whole , the book would be more valuable if it were more select in its subjects and compressed in its language ...
The style is sometimes prolix , and difficult of conception , and the arrangement is certainly capable of improvement . On the whole , the book would be more valuable if it were more select in its subjects and compressed in its language ...
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It may here be remarked , that the expression Occurs frequently in holy writ , often in the former sense , and sometimes even in the astronomical allusion of the word . In the former acceptation we read , ( Esther ii . 19. ) ...
It may here be remarked , that the expression Occurs frequently in holy writ , often in the former sense , and sometimes even in the astronomical allusion of the word . In the former acceptation we read , ( Esther ii . 19. ) ...
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says , " sometimes we lay at night out in the open air , rather than enter a town ; on which 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 ...
says , " sometimes we lay at night out in the open air , rather than enter a town ; on which 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 ...
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whereon were engraven certain characters : and , after that , the persons who came to consult the oracle used certain forms of incantation , and so calling upon the devil , received their answers several ways ; sometimes by articulate ...
whereon were engraven certain characters : and , after that , the persons who came to consult the oracle used certain forms of incantation , and so calling upon the devil , received their answers several ways ; sometimes by articulate ...
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Page 327 - And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: and if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
Page 304 - And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand : and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, king of the Jews!
Page 414 - And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads ; and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Page 295 - I like not to take her; then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house. And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.
Page 326 - I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
Page 183 - David will I lay upon his shoulder ; so he shall open, and none shall shut ; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
Page 47 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her, with timbrels, and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
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Page 127 - Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
Page 323 - Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
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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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