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 : Collected from the Most Celebrated Travellers, and the Most Eminent CriticsWhittingham, 1807 - 431 עמודים |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 35
עמוד vii
... figures and hyperboles , which , as it is manifest , cannot be well understood with- out a knowledge of the things from whence such figures are taken , which are natural properties and particular manners of the countries to which they ...
... figures and hyperboles , which , as it is manifest , cannot be well understood with- out a knowledge of the things from whence such figures are taken , which are natural properties and particular manners of the countries to which they ...
עמוד 1
... prevalent in the mythology of the Hindoos . Two sculptured figures are yet extant in one of their oldest pagodas , the former of which represents VOL . I. B 1 Chreeshna , an incarnation of their mediatorial God Vishnu ,
... prevalent in the mythology of the Hindoos . Two sculptured figures are yet extant in one of their oldest pagodas , the former of which represents VOL . I. B 1 Chreeshna , an incarnation of their mediatorial God Vishnu ,
עמוד 22
... figure of an ox or a sheep : for proof that they actually did thus impress them , we can again appeal to the high authority of scripture ; for there we are informed that Jacob bought a parcel of a field for an hundred pieces of money ...
... figure of an ox or a sheep : for proof that they actually did thus impress them , we can again appeal to the high authority of scripture ; for there we are informed that Jacob bought a parcel of a field for an hundred pieces of money ...
עמוד 42
... figures of Darma Rajah , and of Drobede , his wife , who are carried there in procession . When they come to the fire they stir it , to animate its activity , and take a little of the ashes , with which they rub their foreheads , and ...
... figures of Darma Rajah , and of Drobede , his wife , who are carried there in procession . When they come to the fire they stir it , to animate its activity , and take a little of the ashes , with which they rub their foreheads , and ...
עמוד 56
... figures , and inscriptions in hieroglyphical and unknown charac- ters , which were found there . In one of these vaults they found , for instance , the coffin of an embalmed body of a woman , before which was placed a figure of wood ...
... figures , and inscriptions in hieroglyphical and unknown charac- ters , which were found there . In one of these vaults they found , for instance , the coffin of an embalmed body of a woman , before which was placed a figure of wood ...
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Abyssinia agreeable Aleppo alluded allusion amongst ancient apostle appears Arabs boards bread called camel caravanserais carried ceremony Chardin says chres Christ circumstance cloth common court custom dead death deities describes Diodorus Siculus divine DODDRIDGE earth East eastern edition Egypt Egyptian expression Ezekiel feast feet fire frequently gate give Greeks ground hand HARMER hath head heathens Hebrew Herodotus Hist honour horse Iliad Isaiah Israel Israelites Jerusalem Jews Judea kind king kings of Persia Lord manner MAUNDRELL mentioned Mingrelia mountain nations observed occasion passage Persian person Plutarch practice present prince probably prophet Psalm refers remarkable Romans sacred sacrifice salt scribes scriptures seal seems Septuagint sepulchres servants shekels shew signifies sometimes sort speaking stone supposed Syria temple thee thing thou tion Trav Travels trees Turks unto vessel walls wine women words writing