Oriental Illustrations of the Sacred Scriptures,: Collected from the Customs, Manners, Rites, Superstitions, Traditions, Parabolical, Idiomatical, and Proverbial Forms of Speech, Climate, Works of Art, and Literature, of the Hindoos, During a Residence in the East of Nearly Fourteen YearsJohn Murray, 1835 - 619 էջ |
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... Eastern book , and that many of its obscurities do not arise in any intention of the sacred writers , but in the customs , manners , rites , ceremonies , and supersti- tions which by them are alluded to . Should these collections ...
... Eastern book , and that many of its obscurities do not arise in any intention of the sacred writers , but in the customs , manners , rites , ceremonies , and supersti- tions which by them are alluded to . Should these collections ...
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... Eastern phrase . I am conscious that my English is not always so pure and national as it ought to be ; but my numerous years of absence and foreign associations must be my apology . Should Providence again take me to those distant ...
... Eastern phrase . I am conscious that my English is not always so pure and national as it ought to be ; but my numerous years of absence and foreign associations must be my apology . Should Providence again take me to those distant ...
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... Eastern story , must be exceedingly interesting . If that creature was the medium through which sin and misery entered into the world ; is it not probable that , amongst a people possessing such ancient literature , of such curious and ...
... Eastern story , must be exceedingly interesting . If that creature was the medium through which sin and misery entered into the world ; is it not probable that , amongst a people possessing such ancient literature , of such curious and ...
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... Eastern language in idiom and figure . In the course of this work , most of them will be illustrated ; and I think few readers will doubt that they are the correct translations . 4.- " Brought of the firstlings of his flock . 10 GENESIS .
... Eastern language in idiom and figure . In the course of this work , most of them will be illustrated ; and I think few readers will doubt that they are the correct translations . 4.- " Brought of the firstlings of his flock . 10 GENESIS .
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... Eastern figure . Ask a man who is unacquainted with Scripture , what he understands by sin lying at the threshold of the door ; he will immediately speak of it as the guilt of some great crime which the owner had committed . A man ...
... Eastern figure . Ask a man who is unacquainted with Scripture , what he understands by sin lying at the threshold of the door ; he will immediately speak of it as the guilt of some great crime which the owner had committed . A man ...
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Oriental Illustrations of the Sacred Scriptures ... Joseph Roberts (M.R.A.S.) Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1835 |
Oriental Illustrations of the Sacred Scriptures,: Collected from the Customs ... Joseph Roberts Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1835 |
Common terms and phrases
alluded allusions amongst animals Assyria Baal Peor Baal-zebub Babylon beasts beautiful believe blessed body Boothroyd Brahma Brahmin burning called Calmet cast ceremonies Ceylon CHAP child daughter dead death deity earth East Eastern Egypt enemies enquired evil eyes face familiar spirit father favour fear feast feet fellow female fire fruit give gods gold gone ground hair hand hath head heathen heaven Hebrew Hence Hindoos holy husband idols Imaus Israel jewels Jews Kandian war king Lingam live look Lord margin marriage moon mother mountains mouth never night offering ornaments Parvati person Philistines Priapus priest rain reference rice Royal Asiatic Society sacred says Scanda Purana seen Septuagint serpent servant Siva sorrow speak stone taken Tamul translation temple thee thing thou shalt tree unto verse vessel Vishnoo walk wife woman word worship Yama
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Էջ 433 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Էջ 300 - The gold and the crystal cannot equal it : and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold. No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls : for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Էջ 361 - Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps: Fire and hail; snow and vapours: stormy wind fulfilling his word: Mountains and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars: Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl...
Էջ 417 - And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
Էջ 523 - And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.
Էջ 13 - And behold I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven, and every thing that is in the earth shall die, but with thee will I establish My Covenant, and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife, and thy sons
Էջ 571 - 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.
Էջ 358 - Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Էջ 385 - He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
Էջ 576 - Neither was there any among them that lacked : for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, and laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.