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 Critics, Том 1C. Whittingham and sold by Williams and Smith, 1807 |
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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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