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, כרך 2 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 85
עמוד 1
To offer to the Deity the first - fruits of the tender herbage , springing up in the
vernal season , and of the different kinds of grain and fruits matured by a warm
sun , was the practice of mankind in VOL . II . B the infancy of the world . The
earliest ...
To offer to the Deity the first - fruits of the tender herbage , springing up in the
vernal season , and of the different kinds of grain and fruits matured by a warm
sun , was the practice of mankind in VOL . II . B the infancy of the world . The
earliest ...
עמוד 2
There was , according to Porphyry ( De Abstinentia , p . 73 . ) a very curious and
ancient festival , anmially celebrated at Athens , to the honour of the Sun and
Hours , which , in the simplicity of the offerings , remarkably resembled the
practice ...
There was , according to Porphyry ( De Abstinentia , p . 73 . ) a very curious and
ancient festival , anmially celebrated at Athens , to the honour of the Sun and
Hours , which , in the simplicity of the offerings , remarkably resembled the
practice ...
עמוד 8
This peculiar mode of contracting marriage , appears in after ages to have
become a common practice . It prevailed at Athens . It was lawful there to marry a
sister by the father ' s side , but it was not permitted to marry a sister by the same ...
This peculiar mode of contracting marriage , appears in after ages to have
become a common practice . It prevailed at Athens . It was lawful there to marry a
sister by the father ' s side , but it was not permitted to marry a sister by the same ...
עמוד 9
The following extract will exhibit to the reader a striking similarity of practice with
that to which the above cited passage alludes : and that amongst a race of
people very remote both as to local situation and time . “ The Alguoquins make a
great ...
The following extract will exhibit to the reader a striking similarity of practice with
that to which the above cited passage alludes : and that amongst a race of
people very remote both as to local situation and time . “ The Alguoquins make a
great ...
עמוד 19
And is to this day the practice in several Eastern countries . ( Complete System of
Geog . vol . ii . p . 19 . 305 . · The modern Arabs who live under tents purchase
their wives . De la Roque says , that “ properly speaking , a young man that would
...
And is to this day the practice in several Eastern countries . ( Complete System of
Geog . vol . ii . p . 19 . 305 . · The modern Arabs who live under tents purchase
their wives . De la Roque says , that “ properly speaking , a young man that would
...
מה אומרים אנשים - כתיבת ביקורת
לא מצאנו ביקורות במקומות הרגילים
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 387 - And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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?
עמוד 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.