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 CriticsT. Tegg, 1839 - 500 pages |
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... Chardin , from whose travels and MS . papers many articles have been selected for the following work , adverting to his collections for the illustration of the Bible , says , " the lan- guage of that divine book ( especially of the Old ...
... Chardin , from whose travels and MS . papers many articles have been selected for the following work , adverting to his collections for the illustration of the Bible , says , " the lan- guage of that divine book ( especially of the Old ...
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... Chardin describes the Persians as sometimes transporting their wine in buck or goat - skins , which are pitched , and when the skin is good the wine is not at all injured , nor tastes of the pitch . At other times they send it in ...
... Chardin describes the Persians as sometimes transporting their wine in buck or goat - skins , which are pitched , and when the skin is good the wine is not at all injured , nor tastes of the pitch . At other times they send it in ...
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... Chardin , speaking of a letter which was enclosed in a bag , says , 66 upon the middle of one of the sides of the bag were written these two Persian words , Hamel Fasel , which signify excellent or precious writing . " HAR- MER , vol ...
... Chardin , speaking of a letter which was enclosed in a bag , says , 66 upon the middle of one of the sides of the bag were written these two Persian words , Hamel Fasel , which signify excellent or precious writing . " HAR- MER , vol ...
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... ( CHARDIN's Trav . vol . ii . p . 242. ) A very full and clear account of these messengers is afforded us in CAMPBELL'S Travels , part ii . p . 92. " As I became familiarized to my Tartar guide , I found his character disclose much better ...
... ( CHARDIN's Trav . vol . ii . p . 242. ) A very full and clear account of these messengers is afforded us in CAMPBELL'S Travels , part ii . p . 92. " As I became familiarized to my Tartar guide , I found his character disclose much better ...
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... Chardin relates a circumstance con- cerning some commercial transactions which he had with the king of Persia , in which he expressed himself dissatisfied with the val- uation which the king had put upon a rich trinket , in answer to ...
... Chardin relates a circumstance con- cerning some commercial transactions which he had with the king of Persia , in which he expressed himself dissatisfied with the val- uation which the king had put upon a rich trinket , in answer to ...
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Expressions et termes fréquents
Aleppo alludes allusion altar amongst ancient apostle appears Arabs blessing bread called caravanserais ceremony Chardin Christ circumstance cloth common custom dead death described DEUT divine drink earth East EASTERN COUNTRIES Egypt Egyptians EXOD expression father feast feet fire garments gate GILL give gold Greeks ground hand HARMER hath head heathens Hebrew Herodotus Hist Homer honour horse Iliad instance ISAIAH Israel Israelites Jerusalem Jewish Jews Josephus Judea kind king king of Persia Lord LUKE Maimonides manner MATT mentioned mourning nations observed occasion offered Ovid passage passover Persians person Plutarch practice priest princes prophet PROV PSALM refers Romans sacred sacrifice says scripture sepulchres servants signifies sometimes speaking stone supposed Syria temple thee thing thou tion Trav Travels trees unto usual Virgil walls wash wine women words xviii xxii xxiv