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 Seiten |
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... Greek and Roman Classics , and of the Greek and Latin Fathers and others , from the first attempt by William Caxton down to the present year . An account of the principal Works in Arabic and Persian , printed or MS . with such ...
... Greek and Roman Classics , and of the Greek and Latin Fathers and others , from the first attempt by William Caxton down to the present year . An account of the principal Works in Arabic and Persian , printed or MS . with such ...
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... Greeks and Romans till many ages after the Hebrew judges . " No nation of antiquity knew the use of either saddles or stirrups ; " ( GOGUET , Origin of Laws , vol . iii . p . 172. English edit . ) and even in our own times Hasselquist ...
... Greeks and Romans till many ages after the Hebrew judges . " No nation of antiquity knew the use of either saddles or stirrups ; " ( GOGUET , Origin of Laws , vol . iii . p . 172. English edit . ) and even in our own times Hasselquist ...
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... Greek and Roman coins . Thus the Attic mina and the Roman libra equally sig- nify a pound ; and the orare ( stater ) of the Greeks , so called from weighing , is decisive as to this point . The Jewish shekel , was also a weight as well ...
... Greek and Roman coins . Thus the Attic mina and the Roman libra equally sig- nify a pound ; and the orare ( stater ) of the Greeks , so called from weighing , is decisive as to this point . The Jewish shekel , was also a weight as well ...
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... Greek convent at Bellmount , near Tripoli , in Syria , he says , " the same person saw officiating at the altar in his embroidered sacerdotal robe , brought us the next day , on his own back , a kid and a goat - skin of wine , as a ...
... Greek convent at Bellmount , near Tripoli , in Syria , he says , " the same person saw officiating at the altar in his embroidered sacerdotal robe , brought us the next day , on his own back , a kid and a goat - skin of wine , as a ...
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... Greeks , and which he conceives to be of great antiquity , and also of eastern origin . " That it was practised by the Jews , is by some inferred from the story of Jonathan , the son of king Saul , who going to encounter a Philistine ...
... Greeks , and which he conceives to be of great antiquity , and also of eastern origin . " That it was practised by the Jews , is by some inferred from the story of Jonathan , the son of king Saul , who going to encounter a Philistine ...
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