Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures: Derived Principally from the Manners, Customs, Rites, Traditions, Forms of Speech, Antiquities, Climate, and Works of Art and Literature of the Eastern Nations ; Embodying All that is Valuable in the Works of Harmer, Burder, Paxton, and Roberts, and the Most Celebrated Oriental Travellers ; Embracing Also the Subject of the Fulfilment of Prophecy, as Exhibited by Keith and Others ...George Bush J. B. Lippincott, 1856 - 656 páginas |
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... observed among the pebbles on the shore two or three shells of fish , resembling oyster - shells . [ Mr. Mad- den , however , says , Travels , vol . 2 , p . 210 , " I found seve ral fresh water shells on the beach , such as I before ...
... observed among the pebbles on the shore two or three shells of fish , resembling oyster - shells . [ Mr. Mad- den , however , says , Travels , vol . 2 , p . 210 , " I found seve ral fresh water shells on the beach , such as I before ...
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... observed , that the bitumen Hoats on the water , and comes ashore after windy weather ; the Arabs gather it up , and it serves as pitch for all uses , goes into the composition of medicines , and is thought to have been a very great ...
... observed , that the bitumen Hoats on the water , and comes ashore after windy weather ; the Arabs gather it up , and it serves as pitch for all uses , goes into the composition of medicines , and is thought to have been a very great ...
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... observed a Turk , who , with despair in his countenance , ran down a hill , and came towards him . " I am , " cried he , " the most unfortunate man in the world ! I have purchased , at a prodigious expense , two hundred girls , the most ...
... observed a Turk , who , with despair in his countenance , ran down a hill , and came towards him . " I am , " cried he , " the most unfortunate man in the world ! I have purchased , at a prodigious expense , two hundred girls , the most ...
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... observed a well , where oxen were drawing up water , from whence women carried water up a hill , in earthen jars , to water some plantations of tobacco . In the next page he mentions the same thing in general , and speaks of their ...
... observed a well , where oxen were drawing up water , from whence women carried water up a hill , in earthen jars , to water some plantations of tobacco . In the next page he mentions the same thing in general , and speaks of their ...
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... observe so much abstemiousness in their diet , food highly seasoned should not be in request ; yet the contrary is ... observed in China , and perhaps some other parts of the greater Asia . When Ulysses arrived at the palace of ...
... observe so much abstemiousness in their diet , food highly seasoned should not be in request ; yet the contrary is ... observed in China , and perhaps some other parts of the greater Asia . When Ulysses arrived at the palace of ...
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