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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... says Mr. Tong , have wrote well on this subject , yet , I believe , most will say he has excelled them all . It is impossible to do justice to a work of so great merit . [ Vide Tong's Life of Henry . 32 Rev. John Brown's Dictionary of ...
... says Mr. Tong , have wrote well on this subject , yet , I believe , most will say he has excelled them all . It is impossible to do justice to a work of so great merit . [ Vide Tong's Life of Henry . 32 Rev. John Brown's Dictionary of ...
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... say , I gained it . " SALE'S Prelim . Discourse , 30 . NEWTON on the Prophecies , vol . i . p . 42 . No. 7. - xviii ... says the writer of that voyage , we cannot help calling to our memory the manners of the patriarchal times . It does ...
... say , I gained it . " SALE'S Prelim . Discourse , 30 . NEWTON on the Prophecies , vol . i . p . 42 . No. 7. - xviii ... says the writer of that voyage , we cannot help calling to our memory the manners of the patriarchal times . It does ...
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... says , ( Travels , vol . i . p . 148. ) " the great people among them came , and , after joining hands , repeated a kind of prayer , of about two minutes long , by which they declared themselves and their children accursed , if ever ...
... says , ( Travels , vol . i . p . 148. ) " the great people among them came , and , after joining hands , repeated a kind of prayer , of about two minutes long , by which they declared themselves and their children accursed , if ever ...
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... says . M. Savary , would be uninhabitable , did not the nocturnal dews restore life to vegetables . These dews are so co- pious , especially in summer , that the earth is deeply soak- ed with them , so that in the morning one would ...
... says . M. Savary , would be uninhabitable , did not the nocturnal dews restore life to vegetables . These dews are so co- pious , especially in summer , that the earth is deeply soak- ed with them , so that in the morning one would ...
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... says , sometimes we lay at night out in the open air , rather than enter a town ; on which occasions I found the weather as piercing cold as it was distressfully hot in the day time . " Hence we may clearly see the force and propriety ...
... says , sometimes we lay at night out in the open air , rather than enter a town ; on which occasions I found the weather as piercing cold as it was distressfully hot in the day time . " Hence we may clearly see the force and propriety ...
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