Observations on Various Passages of Scripture: Placing Them in a New Light; and Ascertaining the Meaning of Several, Not Determinable by the Methods Commonly Made Use of by the Learned, المجلد 2

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J. Johnson, 1808

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Different Kinds of Delicacies used in the East
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Potted Flesh made use of by Travellers
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Different Kinds of Game esteemed Deli cacies in the East
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Shoulder of Lamb a Delicacy in the East
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Fat Lambs esteemed a Delicacy in the East
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How Strangers are entertained in the East
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Roasted and stewed Meat Delicacies among the Arabs 79 81 82
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Of their Pottage in the East
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Seldom use FleshMeat but live on Milk Pulse
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Game sometimes usedHunting of the Arabs
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Inhabitants of the Villages obliged to sup ply their Grandees when on a Journey with Provisions 94 95
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Different Methods of serving up food at Meals
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Manner of eating at Courts
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Provisions sent from the Tables of Eastern
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Women and Men do not eat together in the East
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The Eastern People begin to eat very early in the Morning
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Abstemiousness conducive to Health
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Mats used in the East instead of Tables
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Various Utensils used by the ancient Jews
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Womer are still accustomed to draw Water in the East
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Large Supply of Cattle at the Table of Princes
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Drinking Vessels often made of Gold in the East
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Horns used as drinking Vessels in the East
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Effects of Wine upon some Eastern Devotees
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Different Kinds of Wines in the East
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Page
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Sweet Wines much esteemed in the East
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The Easterns drink their Wine before Meat
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Of Lemons Oranges and Citron
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Superior Excellence of the Pistachio Nuts
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Of Music in the Eastern Feasts
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Of Field and House Music at Aleppo
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HI Carry also Provender for their Beasts 286
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Of their Wells and the Method of drawing
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The Manner of Travelling by Camels Drome
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No Mangers used in the East HairBags
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Their Caravans composed of People of differ ent Nations
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Different Kinds of Vehicles used in the Cara pans for Persons of Distinction the Sick c
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Method of wearing their Swords in travelling
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Travellers on Horseback attended by Per sons on Foot
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Their Method of travelling on Foot
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Of their Roads Inclosures c
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Of their Inclosures Fences Walls c
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Of their Woods in the HolyLand
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Dangerous Chasms near Aleppo
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Hospitality of the Arabs to Travellers ex plaining Luke xiv 23 c and Jerem xlix 3
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Provisions used in Journeying with a curi ous Comment on a Petition of the Lords Prayer
229
Provisions often extorted from the poor Inhabitants of the Country by the Officers of Government
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The Times of journeying pitching their Tents c
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Time of shutting their Gates in the East
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In journeying Bells are sometimes ap pended both to Horses and Camels
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Of the Lights used for travelling
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The Necessity of Guides in travelling
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CHAP X
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The preceding Subject continued
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Presents often very expensive in the East
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Flowers and odoriferous Herbs often given
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When an Inferior is visited by a Superior
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Particular Kinds of Salutations
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Further Considerations on the same Subject
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before the Person he intends to honour
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Kissing the Hand and putting it on the Head
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Intimate Acquaintances kiss each others Hands
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Christians in Egypt obliged to alight when
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Different Kinds of Perfumes used at the Close
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Changing the Dress of a Person a Token
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Partycoloured Garments esteemed a Mark
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Other curious Methods of doing Persons
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Riding on Horseback the Privilege only of high lyprivileged Persons
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Honours conferred on those who have got the Koran by Heart
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Watering the Ground to lay the Dust before a Superior
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Singular Method of honouring an Arabian Princess
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Honours paid to Nadir Shah
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The Easterns often change their Garments in Token of Respect
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New Clothes used in Times of rejoicing
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The Dress of Brides often changed during the Marriage Solemnity
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Curious Criticism on Psalm cxxiii 2
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Remarkable Condescension sometimes shewn by the Eastern Nobles
430
Females often express their Joy by clapping their Hands
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Dancing and Music used in doing Persons Honour
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Some Account of the ancient Eastern Dances
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Description of a Maronite Wedding
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Different Methods of expressing their Joy
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Music and Singing used in honouring Superiors
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A Spear in the Hand or a Standard carried be fore a Person are Marks of Honour
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Letters sent to Superiors are made up in a peculiar and costly Style
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Bracelets sometimes Ensigns of Royalty
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Numerous Lights curiously disposed used in doing Persons honour
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Chains on the Necks of Camels c Marks of Dis tinction and Grandeur
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Umbrellas used for the same Purposes
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Feathers used as Ornaments in the East
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Persons not possessing the regal Dignity sometimes honoured by Permission to sit on a Throne
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Rich Dresses and costly Furs used in doing
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Different Articles of Dress used among
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The same Subject continued
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Giving the Hand to a Person a Token of Sub
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High raised Seats Places of Honour
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Fine Handkerchiefs embroidered Cloth
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East
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Presents made and received essentially
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الصفحة 429 - Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
الصفحة 443 - I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
الصفحة 471 - And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had ; and they cried before him, Bow the knee : and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
الصفحة 496 - By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
الصفحة 38 - Behold, I stand here by the well of water ; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water: and let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink...
الصفحة 508 - If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, From doing thy pleasure on my holy day ; And call the sabbath a delight, The holy of the Lord, honourable; And shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, Nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord...
الصفحة 407 - Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground : there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans : for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. Take the millstones, and grind meal : uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
الصفحة 259 - Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
الصفحة 326 - Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying, 19 There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father : behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold ; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
الصفحة 492 - 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.

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