Oriental customs: or, An illustration of the Sacred scriptures by an explanatory application of the customs and manners of the Eastern nations, Τόμος 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812 |
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Σελίδα 10
... occasions at least , impressed with a particular stamp . The Chinese also do the same . For " there is no silver coin in China , notwithstanding payments are made with that metal , in masses of about ten ounces , having the form of the ...
... occasions at least , impressed with a particular stamp . The Chinese also do the same . For " there is no silver coin in China , notwithstanding payments are made with that metal , in masses of about ten ounces , having the form of the ...
Σελίδα 27
... occasion but these are sufficient to shew the great antiquity of this opinion . And it is possible that old experience may in some cases attain to something like prophecy and divination . In some instances also God may have been pleased ...
... occasion but these are sufficient to shew the great antiquity of this opinion . And it is possible that old experience may in some cases attain to something like prophecy and divination . In some instances also God may have been pleased ...
Σελίδα 35
... occasion for straw in making bricks , as they put thin layers of straw between them , without which they would , as they dried , run or adhere together . Macartney's Emb . p . 269 . No. 667. — vii . 18. The Egyptians shall loath to ...
... occasion for straw in making bricks , as they put thin layers of straw between them , without which they would , as they dried , run or adhere together . Macartney's Emb . p . 269 . No. 667. — vii . 18. The Egyptians shall loath to ...
Σελίδα 37
... occasion , since mankind have generally abhorred such food , is understood by some to have been given in opposition to the barbarous customs of the heathens , who in their feasts of Bacchus , which , according to Herodotus and Plutarch ...
... occasion , since mankind have generally abhorred such food , is understood by some to have been given in opposition to the barbarous customs of the heathens , who in their feasts of Bacchus , which , according to Herodotus and Plutarch ...
Σελίδα 38
... occasions mighty joy . This search , nevertheless , strict as it is , does not give him entire satisfaction . After all he beseeches God that all the leavened bread that is in the house , as well as what he has found , may become like ...
... occasions mighty joy . This search , nevertheless , strict as it is , does not give him entire satisfaction . After all he beseeches God that all the leavened bread that is in the house , as well as what he has found , may become like ...
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Σελίδα 211 - For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red ; it is full of mixture ; and he poureth out of the same : but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
Σελίδα 389 - And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Σελίδα 118 - And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
Σελίδα 250 - O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
Σελίδα 390 - 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 8 - And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
Σελίδα 143 - And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem, Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly.
Σελίδα 139 - 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 329 - 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.
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?