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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... means , might be precluded from consulting the larger Work : experience has shown that this idea was not unfounded . Another Edition is now called for , and he has availed himself of the opportunity of enriching its pages with vari- ous ...
... means , might be precluded from consulting the larger Work : experience has shown that this idea was not unfounded . Another Edition is now called for , and he has availed himself of the opportunity of enriching its pages with vari- ous ...
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... mean a lodging room , but a repository for beds . Chardin says , “ In the East beds are not raised from the ground with posts , a canopy , and curtains ; people lie on the ground . In the evening they spread out a mattress or two of ...
... mean a lodging room , but a repository for beds . Chardin says , “ In the East beds are not raised from the ground with posts , a canopy , and curtains ; people lie on the ground . In the evening they spread out a mattress or two of ...
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... means of large stones , twenty cubits , or thirty - six 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 ...
... means of large stones , twenty cubits , or thirty - six 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 ...
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... of a root called lift adum , which the women spin or twist , and weave so close that it can keep off the rain . Some are erected by means of three principal poles , which are placed in the ground , HOUSES AND TENTS . 15.
... of a root called lift adum , which the women spin or twist , and weave so close that it can keep off the rain . Some are erected by means of three principal poles , which are placed in the ground , HOUSES AND TENTS . 15.
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... means a kind of brasier or portable machine to keep fuel together for burning , such as are still used in the East to keep their rooms warm in winter . Such contrivances were in use among the ancient Greeks , and are called by HOMER ...
... means a kind of brasier or portable machine to keep fuel together for burning , such as are still used in the East to keep their rooms warm in winter . Such contrivances were in use among the ancient Greeks , and are called by HOMER ...
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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