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 CriticsWhittingham, 1807 - 431 pages |
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... Persian , printed or MS . with such Translations of them as have already appeared in English . History and origin of Printing ; list of Authors on Bibliography , Typography , & c .; list of all the Cities and Towns in Europe where ...
... Persian , printed or MS . with such Translations of them as have already appeared in English . History and origin of Printing ; list of Authors on Bibliography , Typography , & c .; list of all the Cities and Towns in Europe where ...
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... Persian legislator wrote of the advent of the Messiah in terms even more express than those contained in the foregoing predic- tion . " Zeradusht , " says he , " the preceptor of the magi , taught the Persians concerning the manifesta ...
... Persian legislator wrote of the advent of the Messiah in terms even more express than those contained in the foregoing predic- tion . " Zeradusht , " says he , " the preceptor of the magi , taught the Persians concerning the manifesta ...
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... was apprehended from them , on account of some mental or bodily disqualification . Blindness saved the life of Ma- hammed Khodabendeh , a Persian prince of the sixteenth century , when his brother Ismael put all the rest 78 1 KINGS .
... was apprehended from them , on account of some mental or bodily disqualification . Blindness saved the life of Ma- hammed Khodabendeh , a Persian prince of the sixteenth century , when his brother Ismael put all the rest 78 1 KINGS .
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... Persian magi ( Herodotus , lib . vii . c . 191. ) used to appease tem- pests , and allay the winds , by making incisions in their flesh . They who carried about the Syrian goddess , ( Apuleius , lib . viii . ) cut and slashed themselves ...
... Persian magi ( Herodotus , lib . vii . c . 191. ) used to appease tem- pests , and allay the winds , by making incisions in their flesh . They who carried about the Syrian goddess , ( Apuleius , lib . viii . ) cut and slashed themselves ...
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... Persian ink serves not only for writing , but for subscribing with their seal ; indeed many of the Persians in high office could not write . In their rings they wear agates , which serve for a seal , on which is frequently engraved ...
... Persian ink serves not only for writing , but for subscribing with their seal ; indeed many of the Persians in high office could not write . In their rings they wear agates , which serve for a seal , on which is frequently engraved ...
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Expressions et termes fréquents
Abyssinia agreeable Aleppo alluded allusion amongst ancient apostle appears Arabs boards bread called camel caravanserais carried ceremony Chardin says chres Christ circumstance cloth common court custom dead death deities describes Diodorus Siculus divine DODDRIDGE earth East eastern edition Egypt Egyptian expression Ezekiel feast feet fire frequently gate give Greeks ground hand HARMER hath head heathens Hebrew Herodotus Hist honour horse Iliad Isaiah Israel Israelites Jerusalem Jews Judea kind king kings of Persia Lord manner MAUNDRELL mentioned Mingrelia mountain nations observed occasion passage Persian person Plutarch practice present prince probably prophet Psalm refers remarkable Romans sacred sacrifice salt scribes scriptures seal seems Septuagint sepulchres servants shekels shew signifies sometimes sort speaking stone supposed Syria temple thee thing thou tion Trav Travels trees Turks unto vessel walls wine women words writing