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 : Together with Observations on Many Difficult and Obscure Texts Collected from the Most Celebrated Travellers, and the Most Eminent Critics, Volumen2William W. Woodward, 1807 |
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... Egypt , she gave him a name of honour : not merely a name of distinction , for such all nations had ( who wor- shiped local tutelary deities ) before their communication with Egypt . But after that they decorated their gods with ...
... Egypt , she gave him a name of honour : not merely a name of distinction , for such all nations had ( who wor- shiped local tutelary deities ) before their communication with Egypt . But after that they decorated their gods with ...
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... Egypt , but that their power amounts to very little . That they have however garrisons in divers little citadels , built in that desert , near the wells that are made on the road from Egypt and Syria to Mecca , which are intended for ...
... Egypt , but that their power amounts to very little . That they have however garrisons in divers little citadels , built in that desert , near the wells that are made on the road from Egypt and Syria to Mecca , which are intended for ...
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... Egypt and Palestine . " A band or chorus of eighteen men seated themselves before us ; they sung a slow and soft air ; twenty women enter- ed . Most of them had upon their heads garlands , of the crimson flowers of the china rose , or ...
... Egypt and Palestine . " A band or chorus of eighteen men seated themselves before us ; they sung a slow and soft air ; twenty women enter- ed . Most of them had upon their heads garlands , of the crimson flowers of the china rose , or ...
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... Egypt , that is , that the earth brought forth by handfuls ? This latter passage may , indeed , mean , that the earth brought forth handfuls of stalks from single grains , and not handfuls of ears from single stalks , agreeably to the ...
... Egypt , that is , that the earth brought forth by handfuls ? This latter passage may , indeed , mean , that the earth brought forth handfuls of stalks from single grains , and not handfuls of ears from single stalks , agreeably to the ...
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... Egypt ; and with a small variation still remains so . The history of the revolt of Ali Bey ( p . 43. ) informs us , that on the election of a new sheik bellet , the pasha who approves of him invests him with a valuable fur , treats him ...
... Egypt ; and with a small variation still remains so . The history of the revolt of Ali Bey ( p . 43. ) informs us , that on the election of a new sheik bellet , the pasha who approves of him invests him with a valuable fur , treats him ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Aleppo Alex alludes allusion altar amongst ancient appears Arabs blessing blood bread brought caliph called ceremony Chardin Christ circumstance clothes crown custom customary David death divine drink earth East eastern Egypt Egyptians expression father feast fire garments GILL give gods gold Greeks hair hands HARMER hath head heathens Hebrews Hence Herodotus Hist holy Homer honour horse instance Israel Israelites JENNINGS's Jewish Jerusalem Jewish Jews Josephus Judea kind king king of Persia Lord Maimonides manner mentioned Moses mourning nations night observed Odyss offered Ovid passage passover PATRICK Persians person Philistines Plutarch practice prayer priest prince prophet Psalm Romans round sacred sacrifice Saul says Scythians servants shew signifies Solomon speaking stones supposed Syria temple thee thing tion Trav Travels unto usual Vathek viii Virgil wash wine women words worship
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Página 214 - O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; Happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Página 304 - Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
Página 209 - Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
Página 387 - And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Página 31 - For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
Página 388 - But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Página 304 - The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
Página 137 - Now Absalom in his life-time had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale : for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance : and he called the pillar after his own name, and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.
Página 11 - And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold; and said, Whose daughter art thou?
Página 327 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.