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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Page viii
... sometimes absurd also . In fine , con- sulting the commentators upon such kind of pas- sages , I found very strange mistakes in them ; and that they had all along guessed at the sense , and did but grope ( as in the dark ) in the search ...
... sometimes absurd also . In fine , con- sulting the commentators upon such kind of pas- sages , I found very strange mistakes in them ; and that they had all along guessed at the sense , and did but grope ( as in the dark ) in the search ...
Page xii
... sometimes prolix , and difficult of conception , and the arrangement is certainly capable of improvement . On the whole , the book would be more valuable if it were more select in its subjects and compressed in its language . This ...
... sometimes prolix , and difficult of conception , and the arrangement is certainly capable of improvement . On the whole , the book would be more valuable if it were more select in its subjects and compressed in its language . This ...
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... sometimes even in the astronomical allu- sion of the word . In the former acceptation we read , ( Esther ii . 19. ) of the Jew , Mordecai , sitting in the king's GATE ; in Lamentations v . 14. that the elders have ceased from the GATE ...
... sometimes even in the astronomical allu- sion of the word . In the former acceptation we read , ( Esther ii . 19. ) of the Jew , Mordecai , sitting in the king's GATE ; in Lamentations v . 14. that the elders have ceased from the GATE ...
Page 20
... 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 of ...
... 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 of ...
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... sometimes by articulate sounds , sometimes by the characters , which were in the cup , rising upon the surface of the water , and by this arrangement forming the answer ; and many times by the visible appearing of the per- sons ...
... sometimes by articulate sounds , sometimes by the characters , which were in the cup , rising upon the surface of the water , and by this arrangement forming the answer ; and many times by the visible appearing of the per- sons ...
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