Oriental Customs: Or, an Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by an Explanatory Application of the Customs and Manners of the Eastern Nations, and Expecially the Jews, Therien Alluded To, Together with Observations on Many Difficult and Obscure Texts, Collected from the Most Celebrated Travellers, and the Most Eminent Critics, Tom 1William W. Woodward, 1804 - 431 |
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Strona xv
... mean time I dismiss the following pages , reminding my reader of the ad- monition of Horace : -Si quid novisti rectius istis , Candidus imperti ; si non , his utere mecum . If you know of any thing more proper than these , be so candid ...
... mean time I dismiss the following pages , reminding my reader of the ad- monition of Horace : -Si quid novisti rectius istis , Candidus imperti ; si non , his utere mecum . If you know of any thing more proper than these , be so candid ...
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... means an object of curiosity : whatever way it was done , it surely was adroitly , and the two pieces were spread upon the outside of one of their shields . One of them still continued holding the head , while the other two were busy in ...
... means an object of curiosity : whatever way it was done , it surely was adroitly , and the two pieces were spread upon the outside of one of their shields . One of them still continued holding the head , while the other two were busy in ...
Strona 25
... means subdue . These robberies they also justify by alledging the hard usage of their father Ishmael , who being turned out of doors by Abraham , had the open plains and deserts given him by God for his patrimony , with permission to ...
... means subdue . These robberies they also justify by alledging the hard usage of their father Ishmael , who being turned out of doors by Abraham , had the open plains and deserts given him by God for his patrimony , with permission to ...
Strona 30
... means of one that was to descend from Abraham . HARMER , vol . iv . p . 477 . No. 14. - xxvii . 39. Dew of Heaven . ] Egypt , says M. Savary , would be uninhabitable , did not the noctur- nal dews restore life to vegetables . These dews ...
... means of one that was to descend from Abraham . HARMER , vol . iv . p . 477 . No. 14. - xxvii . 39. Dew of Heaven . ] Egypt , says M. Savary , would be uninhabitable , did not the noctur- nal dews restore life to vegetables . These dews ...
Strona 33
... means of magical incantations , with a portion of the deity : they were consulted on occasions of great and pressing emergency , as a kind of divine oracles , and were suspended , either round the neck or some other part of the body ...
... means of magical incantations , with a portion of the deity : they were consulted on occasions of great and pressing emergency , as a kind of divine oracles , and were suspended , either round the neck or some other part of the body ...
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