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, Հատոր 2William W. Woodward, 1807 |
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Արդյունքներ 79–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... woman , saw the angel of God in the wilderness , she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her , ELROI , the God of vision , or the visible God : that is , according to the established custom of Egypt , she gave him a name of ...
... woman , saw the angel of God in the wilderness , she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her , ELROI , the God of vision , or the visible God : that is , according to the established custom of Egypt , she gave him a name of ...
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... woman and her son for the son of this bond - woman shall not be heir with my son . ] The following extract will exhibit to the reader a striking similarity of practice with that to which the above cited passage al- ludes : and that ...
... woman and her son for the son of this bond - woman shall not be heir with my son . ] The following extract will exhibit to the reader a striking similarity of practice with that to which the above cited passage al- ludes : and that ...
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... women go out to draw water . ] Homer men- tions the same custom of women's being employed in drawing water among the Phæacians and Læstrygonians . ( Od . vii . 20. et x . 105. ) Dr. Shaw , speaking of the occu- pation of the Moorish women ...
... women go out to draw water . ] Homer men- tions the same custom of women's being employed in drawing water among the Phæacians and Læstrygonians . ( Od . vii . 20. et x . 105. ) Dr. Shaw , speaking of the occu- pation of the Moorish women ...
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... women of the East when he was there . He says that the women wear rings and bracelets of as great weight as this , through all Asia , and even heavier . They are rather manacles than brace- lets . There are some as large as the finger ...
... women of the East when he was there . He says that the women wear rings and bracelets of as great weight as this , through all Asia , and even heavier . They are rather manacles than brace- lets . There are some as large as the finger ...
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... women : and , when a lady of consequence is in full dress , the gold about her 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 ...
... women : and , when a lady of consequence is in full dress , the gold about her 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 ...
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Oriental Customs: Or, An Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by ..., Հատոր 2 Samuel Burder Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1807 |
Oriental Customs: Or, An Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by ..., Հատոր 2 Samuel Burder Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1807 |
Oriental Customs: Or, An Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by ..., Հատոր 2 Samuel Burder Դիտել հնարավոր չէ - 1807 |
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Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 387 - And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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?
Էջ 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.