Oriental Observations and Occasional Criticisms: More Or Less Illustrating Several Hundred Passages of ScriptureHoldsworth, 1827 - 92 pages |
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... served the people dipping water out of pits large at top , but containing a small pool at bottom . Cocoa- nut shells answered the purpose . The water along that part of the country is bad , and in the dry sea- - sons extremely scarce ...
... served the people dipping water out of pits large at top , but containing a small pool at bottom . Cocoa- nut shells answered the purpose . The water along that part of the country is bad , and in the dry sea- - sons extremely scarce ...
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... serves for a convenient weight for pressing damped paper , in the Mission Printing- Office , Colombo ; and I remember meeting a Cin- . galese at Point - de - Galle , with a new pair of mill- stones on his head , Exodus , xiii . 18. And ...
... serves for a convenient weight for pressing damped paper , in the Mission Printing- Office , Colombo ; and I remember meeting a Cin- . galese at Point - de - Galle , with a new pair of mill- stones on his head , Exodus , xiii . 18. And ...
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... serve the purpose . Deuteronomy , xxiii . 20. Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury , but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury ; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to , in the land ...
... serve the purpose . Deuteronomy , xxiii . 20. Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury , but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury ; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to , in the land ...
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... serving for mattrass , and the other as a covering . It was pro- bably not unlike a sailor's hammock laid on the floor or bench . The writer remembers seeing three clay benches for sleeping on , at a small post - house at Vowwol - tongy ...
... serving for mattrass , and the other as a covering . It was pro- bably not unlike a sailor's hammock laid on the floor or bench . The writer remembers seeing three clay benches for sleeping on , at a small post - house at Vowwol - tongy ...
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... served to have whiskers without a beard ! Cutting off the beard , was evidently a token of deep mourn- ing , Is . xv . 2 ; Jer . xli . 5 ; neglecting it , a mark of dejection , Gen. xli . 14 ; 2 Sam . xix . 24 . " Pliny telleth us out ...
... served to have whiskers without a beard ! Cutting off the beard , was evidently a token of deep mourn- ing , Is . xv . 2 ; Jer . xli . 5 ; neglecting it , a mark of dejection , Gen. xli . 14 ; 2 Sam . xix . 24 . " Pliny telleth us out ...
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Abimelech Achish alludes appears Arabs Behold Beth-Shemesh bride bridegroom Bruce Budhu Budhuist temple Calmet's cast Ceylon children of Israel Christ Christian Cingalese cloth Corinthians daughter David denote Deuteronomy earth East eastern Edom European Exodus eyes Ezekiel father feet galese garments Genesis give Grand Seignior hair hand hast hath head heathen Hebrew Hindoos images India Isaiah Jaffna Jeremiah Jewish Jews John Judea Judges king's Kings Lamech Luke Maachah margin Mark marriage Matthew Matura mother Naaman natives observed ornaments Parkhurst passage Pharaoh Philistines pray probably Proverbs Psalm rendered rivers saith the Lord Samuel say unto Scripture seed seems seen servants shekel silver skins sleep Solomon's Song stone supposed sword thee thine thing thou shalt travellers Turks usage usually verse voice woman women word worship writer's recollection xviii xxii xxiii xxiv Zedekiah