Oriental customs: or, An illustration of the Sacred scriptures by an explanatory application of the customs and manners of the Eastern nations, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812 |
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... 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 , when at ...
... 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 , when at ...
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... Roman coins , Thus the Attic mina and the Roman libra equally sig- nify a pound ; and the σramp ( stater ) of the Greeks , so called from weighing , is decisive as to this point . The Jewish shekel , was also a weight as well as a coin ...
... Roman coins , Thus the Attic mina and the Roman libra equally sig- nify a pound ; and the σramp ( stater ) of the Greeks , so called from weighing , is decisive as to this point . The Jewish shekel , was also a weight as well as a coin ...
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... Romans , who looked upon showers of stones as very disastrous , have noticed many instances of them . Under the reign of Tullius Hostilius , when it was known to the people of Rome that a shower of stones had fallen on the mountain of ...
... Romans , who looked upon showers of stones as very disastrous , have noticed many instances of them . Under the reign of Tullius Hostilius , when it was known to the people of Rome that a shower of stones had fallen on the mountain of ...
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... Romans called carnifices , or public executioners ; and therefore Saul bade such as waited on him to kill the priests , and Doeg , one of the chief officers , did it . " PATRIC , in loc . . No. 97. xxiv . 12. The Lord judge between me ...
... Romans called carnifices , or public executioners ; and therefore Saul bade such as waited on him to kill the priests , and Doeg , one of the chief officers , did it . " PATRIC , in loc . . No. 97. xxiv . 12. The Lord judge between me ...
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... Romans , and which was as ancient as Homer , ( for he makes men- tion of it in his poems ) was , to write on tables of wood covered over with wax . On these they wrote with a bodkin or style of iron , with which they engraved their ...
... Romans , and which was as ancient as Homer , ( for he makes men- tion of it in his poems ) was , to write on tables of wood covered over with wax . On these they wrote with a bodkin or style of iron , with which they engraved their ...
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Página 310 - I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
Página 311 - And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: and if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
Página 348 - And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid ; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.
Página 314 - And he said unto him, Thy brother is come ; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.
Página 141 - In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened. And the doors shall be shut in the streets when the sound of the grinding is low...
Página 307 - And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman ? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
Página 222 - This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it ; because the Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
Página 161 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds: I will be like the most High.
Página 79 - So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees, and said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea.
Página 394 - And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.