Oriental Customs applied to the illustration of the Sacred Scriptures. Abridged from “Oriental Customs” and “Oriental Literature,” with additional extracts from various authorsLongman & Company, 1837 - 475 páginas |
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... feet square , of wicker - work , plastered round towards the bottom , but without any doors . " Pocock's Travels , vol . ii . p . 69. " A wicker shed , or hovel , upon one side of the roof was found capable of containing six of us ; the ...
... feet square , of wicker - work , plastered round towards the bottom , but without any doors . " Pocock's Travels , vol . ii . p . 69. " A wicker shed , or hovel , upon one side of the roof was found capable of containing six of us ; the ...
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... feet above the floor , with a balustrade in the front of it , with a few steps likewise leading up to it . Here they place their beds ; a situation frequently alluded to in the Holy Scriptures , which may likewise illustrate the cir ...
... feet above the floor , with a balustrade in the front of it , with a few steps likewise leading up to it . Here they place their beds ; a situation frequently alluded to in the Holy Scriptures , which may likewise illustrate the cir ...
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... feet five inches long , and six cubits , ten feet or ten inches high ( JOSE- PHUS , Ant . xx . 9. ) , so as to be on an equality with the rest of the surface . When Captain LIGHT visited Je- rusalem , in 1814 , some of these large ...
... feet five inches long , and six cubits , ten feet or ten inches high ( JOSE- PHUS , Ant . xx . 9. ) , so as to be on an equality with the rest of the surface . When Captain LIGHT visited Je- rusalem , in 1814 , some of these large ...
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... feet high . Instead of a door , they lift part of the tent up : they tie it on the outside here and there with cord ; and thus the whole building is complete , which is dyed black with copperas . This colour they must have had already ...
... feet high . Instead of a door , they lift part of the tent up : they tie it on the outside here and there with cord ; and thus the whole building is complete , which is dyed black with copperas . This colour they must have had already ...
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... feet in height . The dewan khass in former times was adorned with excessive magnificence : and though repeatedly stripped and plundered by successive invaders , still retains sufficient beauty to render it ad- mired . I judge the ...
... feet in height . The dewan khass in former times was adorned with excessive magnificence : and though repeatedly stripped and plundered by successive invaders , still retains sufficient beauty to render it ad- mired . I judge the ...
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Albania Aleppo ancient appears Arabian Arabs beard Bedouin bread bread and salt bride BUCKINGHAM'S Travels Cairo called camels caravan caravanserais ceremony chap CHARDIN CLARKE'S Travels cloth Constantinople corn covered custom desert dogs East Eastern Egypt eyes feet FORBES's Oriental Memoirs frequently garment gate give gold Greece Greeks ground hand head HERODOTUS Hindoos Hist History of Persia honour horses hour Indian inhabitants ISAIAH Jews Journey through Persia kind king Levant Lord manner marriage MATT MORIER'S Second Journey Nadir Shah night Nubia observed occasion OUSELEY'S Travels Palestine passed person pieces present prince PSALM R. K. PORTER'S Travels river salt sand says seat sent servants side Sir R. K. PORTER'S sometimes stone Syria temple tent thing thou throne tomb Trav Travels in Persia Turkey Turkish Turks unto village Voyage walls women