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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... frequently carried on . Captain Hamilton ( Voyage , vol . i . p . 368 ) giving an ac- count of Fort St. George , observes , " that the GATE of that town , called the sea - gate , being very spacious , was formerly the common exchange ...
... frequently carried on . Captain Hamilton ( Voyage , vol . i . p . 368 ) giving an ac- count of Fort St. George , observes , " that the GATE of that town , called the sea - gate , being very spacious , was formerly the common exchange ...
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... frequently mentioned in scripture . Levi ( Rites and Ceremonies of the Jews , p . 174. ) says , it was performed in the following man- ner : " they take a knife , and holding the blade down- wards , do give the upper garinent a cut on ...
... frequently mentioned in scripture . Levi ( Rites and Ceremonies of the Jews , p . 174. ) says , it was performed in the following man- ner : " they take a knife , and holding the blade down- wards , do give the upper garinent a cut on ...
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... great leathern bottles are made of the skin of an he goat , and the small ones , that serve instead of a bottle of water on the road , are made of a kid's skin . " These bottles are 1 whom we frequently rent , when old and much [ 53 ]
... great leathern bottles are made of the skin of an he goat , and the small ones , that serve instead of a bottle of water on the road , are made of a kid's skin . " These bottles are 1 whom we frequently rent , when old and much [ 53 ]
Page 54
... frequently rent , when old and much used , and are ca pable of being repaired by being bound up . This they do , Chardin says , " sometimes by setting in a piece ; sometimes by gathering up the wounded place in manner of a purse ...
... frequently rent , when old and much used , and are ca pable of being repaired by being bound up . This they do , Chardin says , " sometimes by setting in a piece ; sometimes by gathering up the wounded place in manner of a purse ...
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... frequently they hung in the most exquisite agonies thirty or forty hours , before they expired . The exposure of the body of Saul might be nothing more , than the fixing of it to such hooks as were placed there for the execution of ...
... frequently they hung in the most exquisite agonies thirty or forty hours , before they expired . The exposure of the body of Saul might be nothing more , than the fixing of it to such hooks as were placed there for the execution of ...
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