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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... According to Abulpharagius , the 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 ...
... According to Abulpharagius , the 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 ...
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... according to de la Roque ( Voy . dans la Pal . p . 152. ) is by laying their hands on the Koran . They cause those who swear to wash their hands before they give them the book ; they put their left hand underneath , and the right over ...
... according to de la Roque ( Voy . dans la Pal . p . 152. ) is by laying their hands on the Koran . They cause those who swear to wash their hands before they give them the book ; they put their left hand underneath , and the right over ...
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... according to Tavernier , is to anoint them daily with odoriferous oils : a circumstance which immediately brings to our remembrance the similar practice of Jacob , who , after the famous vision of the celestial ladder , took the stone ...
... according to Tavernier , is to anoint them daily with odoriferous oils : a circumstance which immediately brings to our remembrance the similar practice of Jacob , who , after the famous vision of the celestial ladder , took the stone ...
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... according to Arbuthnot , being equal in weight and value to one talent . This is the oldest coin of which we any where read , for it occurs , Gen. xxiii . 16 . and exhibits direct evidence against those who date the first coinage of ...
... according to Arbuthnot , being equal in weight and value to one talent . This is the oldest coin of which we any where read , for it occurs , Gen. xxiii . 16 . and exhibits direct evidence against those who date the first coinage of ...
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... according to thy word shall all my people be ruled . ] The Easterns kiss what comes from the hand of a superior . The editor of the Ruins of Balbec observed , that the Arab governor of that city respectfully applied the fir- man of the ...
... according to thy word shall all my people be ruled . ] The Easterns kiss what comes from the hand of a superior . The editor of the Ruins of Balbec observed , that the Arab governor of that city respectfully applied the fir- man of the ...
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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