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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... dead upon the spot , suffocated with the floods of venom , which the serpent vomits forth upon him . " ( EDDA , Fab . 11 , 25 , 27 , 32. ) Much the same notion , we are informed , is prevalent in the mythology of the Hindoos . Two ...
... dead upon the spot , suffocated with the floods of venom , which the serpent vomits forth upon him . " ( EDDA , Fab . 11 , 25 , 27 , 32. ) Much the same notion , we are informed , is prevalent in the mythology of the Hindoos . Two ...
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... dead , before it was attempted to eat it . We have seen that the Abyssinians came from Pales◅ tine a very few years after this , and we are not to doubt , that they then carried with them this , with many other Jewish customs , which ...
... dead , before it was attempted to eat it . We have seen that the Abyssinians came from Pales◅ tine a very few years after this , and we are not to doubt , that they then carried with them this , with many other Jewish customs , which ...
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... dead , having given an ac- count of several niches that are found there , says , must not be imagined , that the bodies deposited in these gloomy apartments were all enclosed in chests , and placed in niches ; the greatest part were ...
... dead , having given an ac- count of several niches that are found there , says , must not be imagined , that the bodies deposited in these gloomy apartments were all enclosed in chests , and placed in niches ; the greatest part were ...
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... Dead Sea , says , " the true cause of the absence of vegetables and animals , is the acrid saltness of its waters , which is infinitely greater than that of the sea . E 2 DEUTERONOMY . 51 ing and evening as they went and came from their ...
... Dead Sea , says , " the true cause of the absence of vegetables and animals , is the acrid saltness of its waters , which is infinitely greater than that of the sea . E 2 DEUTERONOMY . 51 ing and evening as they went and came from their ...
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... dead appearance which reigns around the lake . " ( Voyage en Syrie , tom . i . p . 282. ) Thus also Virgil , Georg . ii . lib . 238. Hence the an- cient custom of sowing an enemy's city , when taken , with salt , in token of perpetual ...
... dead appearance which reigns around the lake . " ( Voyage en Syrie , tom . i . p . 282. ) Thus also Virgil , Georg . ii . lib . 238. Hence the an- cient custom of sowing an enemy's city , when taken , with salt , in token of perpetual ...
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