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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... usual for a Peruvian to sacrifice his son to Vira- choca , beseeching him to spare his life , and to be satis- fied with the blood of his child . FABER'S Hora . Mosaice , vol . i . p . 88 . No. 3. v . 24. God took him . ] The following ...
... usual for a Peruvian to sacrifice his son to Vira- choca , beseeching him to spare his life , and to be satis- fied with the blood of his child . FABER'S Hora . Mosaice , vol . i . p . 88 . No. 3. v . 24. God took him . ] The following ...
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... i . p . 132 . No. 75.-x. 11. The Lord cast down great stones from heaven . ] Some writers are of opinion that this was hail , larger and more violent than usual ; others maintain that Joshua is to be understood literally , of a 5.4 JOSHUA .
... i . p . 132 . No. 75.-x. 11. The Lord cast down great stones from heaven . ] Some writers are of opinion that this was hail , larger and more violent than usual ; others maintain that Joshua is to be understood literally , of a 5.4 JOSHUA .
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... usual for the attendants to retire when secret messages were to be delivered . " I drank a dish of coffee , and told him , that I was a bearer of a confidential message from Ali Bey of Cairo , and wished to deliver it to him without ...
... usual for the attendants to retire when secret messages were to be delivered . " I drank a dish of coffee , and told him , that I was a bearer of a confidential message from Ali Bey of Cairo , and wished to deliver it to him without ...
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... usual thing for them to pronounce sentence . They had not then ( as we have now ) such persons as the Romans called carnifices , or public executioners ; and therefore Saul bade such as waited on him to kill the priests , and Doeg , one ...
... usual thing for them to pronounce sentence . They had not then ( as we have now ) such persons as the Romans called carnifices , or public executioners ; and therefore Saul bade such as waited on him to kill the priests , and Doeg , one ...
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... usual in the East to leave a relation of a person deceased to weep and mourn , till on the third or fourth day at farthest , the relations and friends go to see him , cause him to eat , lead him to a bath , and cause him to put on new ...
... usual in the East to leave a relation of a person deceased to weep and mourn , till on the third or fourth day at farthest , the relations and friends go to see him , cause him to eat , lead him to a bath , and cause him to put on new ...
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