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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... occasions of great and pressing emergency , as a kind of divine oracles , and were suspended , either round the neck ... occasion of the idolatry in succeeding ages , to these shapeless masses of unhewn stone , of which so many astonish ...
... occasions of great and pressing emergency , as a kind of divine oracles , and were suspended , either round the neck ... occasion of the idolatry in succeeding ages , to these shapeless masses of unhewn stone , of which so many astonish ...
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... occasion to be sparing of their fuel as any people , and especially when journey- ing in the wilderness , Mr. Harmer ( vol . i . p . 268. ) considers this quotation as a more satisfactory commen- tary on this passage than any which has ...
... occasion to be sparing of their fuel as any people , and especially when journey- ing in the wilderness , Mr. Harmer ( vol . i . p . 268. ) considers this quotation as a more satisfactory commen- tary on this passage than any which has ...
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... occasion for water than if they were to live on more substantial food in this burning climate . " This well explains the Israelites regretting the want of this fruit in the parched thirsty wilderness . No. 61. - xii . 14. If her father ...
... occasion for water than if they were to live on more substantial food in this burning climate . " This well explains the Israelites regretting the want of this fruit in the parched thirsty wilderness . No. 61. - xii . 14. If her father ...
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... of the cisterns , [ wherein they preserve the water of the Nile ] and then the water gushing out is con- ducted from one rill to another by the gardener , who is VOL . I. E always ready , as occasion requires , to stop and [ 49 ]
... of the cisterns , [ wherein they preserve the water of the Nile ] and then the water gushing out is con- ducted from one rill to another by the gardener , who is VOL . I. E always ready , as occasion requires , to stop and [ 49 ]
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... occasion requires , to stop and divert the torrent , by turning the earth against it with his foot , and opening , at the same time , with his mattock , a new trench to receive it . This method of conveying mois- ture and nourishment to ...
... occasion requires , to stop and divert the torrent , by turning the earth against it with his foot , and opening , at the same time , with his mattock , a new trench to receive it . This method of conveying mois- ture and nourishment to ...
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