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, Τόμος 2William W. Woodward, 1807 |
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Σελίδα 9
... person . A man that married his sister only by his father's side , could inherit but one estate , that of his father : but by marrying his sister by the same mother , it might happen that his sister's father , having no male issue ...
... person . A man that married his sister only by his father's side , could inherit but one estate , that of his father : but by marrying his sister by the same mother , it might happen that his sister's father , having no male issue ...
Σελίδα 12
... person may be worth , alto- gether , from fifty to eighty pounds sterling . " We find also that the same disposition for rich orna- mental apparel prevailed in the times of the Apostles ; for St. Peter cautioned the females of quality ...
... person may be worth , alto- gether , from fifty to eighty pounds sterling . " We find also that the same disposition for rich orna- mental apparel prevailed in the times of the Apostles ; for St. Peter cautioned the females of quality ...
Σελίδα 15
... person , who comes to pray , places his offering , com- monly consisting of boiled rice , a plate of sweetmeats , or cocoa - nuts fried in oil : when it is given , the devotee cares not what becomes of it ; the crows and wild GENESIS . 15.
... person , who comes to pray , places his offering , com- monly consisting of boiled rice , a plate of sweetmeats , or cocoa - nuts fried in oil : when it is given , the devotee cares not what becomes of it ; the crows and wild GENESIS . 15.
Σελίδα 19
... person . It was the custom of the Greeks and other ancient nations . ( Potter's Greek Ant . b . iv . c . 11. ) And is to this day the practice in several Eas-- tern countries . ( Complete System of Geog . vol . ii . p . 19. 305 . The ...
... person . It was the custom of the Greeks and other ancient nations . ( Potter's Greek Ant . b . iv . c . 11. ) And is to this day the practice in several Eas-- tern countries . ( Complete System of Geog . vol . ii . p . 19. 305 . The ...
Σελίδα 25
... persons when they married , which custom the Abyssinians still observe . No. 650. - xlviii . 20. And he set Ephraim before Man- asseh . ] The preference given in this instance to the young- er brother has in many cases been paralleled ...
... persons when they married , which custom the Abyssinians still observe . No. 650. - xlviii . 20. And he set Ephraim before Man- asseh . ] The preference given in this instance to the young- er brother has in many cases been paralleled ...
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Oriental Customs: Or, An Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by ..., Τόμος 2 Samuel Burder Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 1807 |
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Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 387 - And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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?
Σελίδα 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.