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, Bind 2William W. Woodward, 1807 |
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Side 8
... 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 mother . MONTESQUIEU ( Spirit of Laws , vol . i . p . 54. ) says , that this ...
... 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 mother . MONTESQUIEU ( Spirit of Laws , vol . i . p . 54. ) says , that this ...
Side 17
... common the mother gave the name to a child , and this both amongst the Jews and the Greeks ; though perhaps not without the concurrence of the father . In the age of VOL . II . D Aristophanes the giving of a name to the child seems ...
... common the mother gave the name to a child , and this both amongst the Jews and the Greeks ; though perhaps not without the concurrence of the father . In the age of VOL . II . D Aristophanes the giving of a name to the child seems ...
Side 23
... common amongst all ranks of people in the East . The passage now cited is an instance in point . See also 2 Chron . ix . 24. This custom is still preserved . De la Motraye furnishes us with some particular information on this subject ...
... common amongst all ranks of people in the East . The passage now cited is an instance in point . See also 2 Chron . ix . 24. This custom is still preserved . De la Motraye furnishes us with some particular information on this subject ...
Side 31
... common grave . Pope , Il . xxiii . 103 . No.660 . - 1 . 23. The children also of Machir were brought up upon Joseph's knees . ] They were dandled or treated as children upon Joseph's knees . This is a pleasing picture of an old man's ...
... common grave . Pope , Il . xxiii . 103 . No.660 . - 1 . 23. The children also of Machir were brought up upon Joseph's knees . ] They were dandled or treated as children upon Joseph's knees . This is a pleasing picture of an old man's ...
Side 36
... common saying among them , that if Maho- met had drank of it , he would have begged of God not to have died , that he might always have done it . " HAR- MER , vol . ii . p . 295 . No. 668.-x. 26. There shall not a hoof be left behind ...
... common saying among them , that if Maho- met had drank of it , he would have begged of God not to have died , that he might always have done it . " HAR- MER , vol . ii . p . 295 . No. 668.-x. 26. There shall not a hoof be left behind ...
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Oriental Customs: Or, An Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by ..., Bind 2 Samuel Burder Ingen forhåndsvisning - 1807 |
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Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 387 - And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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?
Side 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.