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, Volumen2William W. Woodward, 1807 |
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... Romans relate the same of their heroes , the oldest of whom lived near the time of the patriarchs . ( Pausan . Dion . Hal . lib . iii . ) Greece was full of their monuments . Æneas , to mention no others , left some in every place that ...
... Romans relate the same of their heroes , the oldest of whom lived near the time of the patriarchs . ( Pausan . Dion . Hal . lib . iii . ) Greece was full of their monuments . Æneas , to mention no others , left some in every place that ...
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... Romans . " Blessed be thou , O Lord , who has created man and wo- man , and ordained marriage , " & c . This was repeated every day during the wedding week , provided there were new guests . The Grecian form of benediction was apady Tux ...
... Romans . " Blessed be thou , O Lord , who has created man and wo- man , and ordained marriage , " & c . This was repeated every day during the wedding week , provided there were new guests . The Grecian form of benediction was apady Tux ...
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... Romans for which he alleges the words of Virgil : Postquam prima quies epulis , mensæque remota , Crateras magnos statuunt , et vina coronant . Æn . i . 727 . A different custom however prevailed in Persia ; where the 22 GENESIS .
... Romans for which he alleges the words of Virgil : Postquam prima quies epulis , mensæque remota , Crateras magnos statuunt , et vina coronant . Æn . i . 727 . A different custom however prevailed in Persia ; where the 22 GENESIS .
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... Romans . Among the Jews , Tobias is said to have shut the eyes of his wife's father and mother , and to have buried them honourably . Tobit xiv . 15. Mai- monides represents it as a customary rite . Homer describes Ulysses thus ...
... Romans . Among the Jews , Tobias is said to have shut the eyes of his wife's father and mother , and to have buried them honourably . Tobit xiv . 15. Mai- monides represents it as a customary rite . Homer describes Ulysses thus ...
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... Romans in a feast called Protervia , where the manner was , as Flavianus saith , ut si quid ex epulis superfuisset , igne consumeretur ; that if any thing were left of the good cheer , it should be consumed with fire . L. ii . Saturnal ...
... Romans in a feast called Protervia , where the manner was , as Flavianus saith , ut si quid ex epulis superfuisset , igne consumeretur ; that if any thing were left of the good cheer , it should be consumed with fire . L. ii . Saturnal ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Aleppo Alex alludes allusion altar amongst ancient appears Arabs blessing blood bread brought caliph called ceremony Chardin Christ circumstance clothes crown custom customary David death divine drink earth East eastern Egypt Egyptians expression father feast fire garments GILL give gods gold Greeks hair hands HARMER hath head heathens Hebrews Hence Herodotus Hist holy Homer honour horse instance Israel Israelites JENNINGS's Jewish Jerusalem Jewish Jews Josephus Judea kind king king of Persia Lord Maimonides manner mentioned Moses mourning nations night observed Odyss offered Ovid passage passover PATRICK Persians person Philistines Plutarch practice prayer priest prince prophet Psalm Romans round sacred sacrifice Saul says Scythians servants shew signifies Solomon speaking stones supposed Syria temple thee thing tion Trav Travels unto usual Vathek viii Virgil wash wine women words worship
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 387 - And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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.