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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... figures and hyperboles , which , as it is manifest , cannot be well understood with- out a knowledge of the things from whence such figures are taken , which are natural properties and particular manners of the countries to which they ...
... figures and hyperboles , which , as it is manifest , cannot be well understood with- out a knowledge of the things from whence such figures are taken , which are natural properties and particular manners of the countries to which they ...
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... prevalent in the mythology of the Hindoos . Two sculptured figures are yet extant in one of their oldest pagodas , the former of which represents VOL . I. B 1 Chreeshna , an incarnation of their mediatorial God Vishnu ,
... prevalent in the mythology of the Hindoos . Two sculptured figures are yet extant in one of their oldest pagodas , the former of which represents VOL . I. B 1 Chreeshna , an incarnation of their mediatorial God Vishnu ,
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... figure of an ox or a sheep : for proof that they actually did thus impress them , we can again appeal to the high authority of scripture ; for there we are informed that Jacob bought a parcel of a field for an hundred pieces of money ...
... figure of an ox or a sheep : for proof that they actually did thus impress them , we can again appeal to the high authority of scripture ; for there we are informed that Jacob bought a parcel of a field for an hundred pieces of money ...
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... figures of Darma Rajah , and of Drobede , his wife , who are carried there in procession . When they come to the fire they stir it , to animate its activity , and take a little of the ashes , with which they rub their foreheads , and ...
... figures of Darma Rajah , and of Drobede , his wife , who are carried there in procession . When they come to the fire they stir it , to animate its activity , and take a little of the ashes , with which they rub their foreheads , and ...
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... figures , and inscriptions in hieroglyphical and unknown charac- ters , which were found there . In one of these vaults they found , for instance , the coffin of an embalmed body of a woman , before which was placed a figure of wood ...
... figures , and inscriptions in hieroglyphical and unknown charac- ters , which were found there . In one of these vaults they found , for instance , the coffin of an embalmed body of a woman , before which was placed a figure of wood ...
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