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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... 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 ...
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... 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 VOL . II . father . In the age of Aristophanes the giving of GENESIS . 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 VOL . II . father . In the age of Aristophanes the giving of GENESIS . 17.
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... common to see one grain produce ten or fifteen stalks . Even some grains of the murwaany wheat , which I brought with me to Oxford , and sowed in the physic garden , threw out each of them fifty . But Muzeratty , one of the late ...
... common to see one grain produce ten or fifteen stalks . Even some grains of the murwaany wheat , which I brought with me to Oxford , and sowed in the physic garden , threw out each of them fifty . But Muzeratty , one of the late ...
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... 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 infor- mation 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 infor- mation on this subject ...
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... common practice . Amongst the Franks it was usual to put the arm round the neck as a mark of superiority on the part of him that did it . When Chrodin , declining the office of mayor of the palace , chose a young nobleman , named Gogen ...
... common practice . Amongst the Franks it was usual to put the arm round the neck as a mark of superiority on the part of him that did it . When Chrodin , declining the office of mayor of the palace , chose a young nobleman , named Gogen ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 29 - I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
Página 5 - And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?
Página 250 - O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
Página 339 - And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left. Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.
Página 390 - 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 306 - 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 18 - Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp ? 28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters?
Página 8 - And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
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 377 - And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith : for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.