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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... sent thee away with mirth and with songs , with tabret and with harp ? ] The Easterns used to set out , at least on their longer journeys , with music . When the prefetto of Egypt was preparing for his jour- ney , he complains of his ...
... sent thee away with mirth and with songs , with tabret and with harp ? ] The Easterns used to set out , at least on their longer journeys , with music . When the prefetto of Egypt was preparing for his jour- ney , he complains of his ...
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... sent messes unto them from before him , but Benjamin's mess was five times as much as any of theirs . ] The manner of eating amongst the ancients was not for all the company to eat out of one and the same dish , but for every one to ...
... sent messes unto them from before him , but Benjamin's mess was five times as much as any of theirs . ] The manner of eating amongst the ancients was not for all the company to eat out of one and the same dish , but for every one to ...
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... sent him five dishes to their one , which disproportion could .not but be marvellous and astonishing to them , if what Herodotus tells us , be true , that the distinction in this case , even to Egyptian kings themselves , in all public ...
... sent him five dishes to their one , which disproportion could .not but be marvellous and astonishing to them , if what Herodotus tells us , be true , that the distinction in this case , even to Egyptian kings themselves , in all public ...
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... sent his people on shore to get water , for which it is always customary to pay ; the Budoos were , as the peo- ple thought , rather too exorbitant in their demands , and not choosing to comply with them , returned to make their report ...
... sent his people on shore to get water , for which it is always customary to pay ; the Budoos were , as the peo- ple thought , rather too exorbitant in their demands , and not choosing to comply with them , returned to make their report ...
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... sent at the execution . If the proposals are refused , the executioner performs the scntence ; if they are accepted , he reconducts the criminal to the tribunal to receive his pardon . " p . 198. It may be proposed to consideration ...
... sent at the execution . If the proposals are refused , the executioner performs the scntence ; if they are accepted , he reconducts the criminal to the tribunal to receive his pardon . " p . 198. It may be proposed to consideration ...
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