Oriental Customs: Or, an Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by an Explanatory Application of the Customs and Manners of the Eastern Nations, and Expecially the Jews, Therien Alluded To, Together with Observations on Many Difficult and Obscure Texts, Collected from the Most Celebrated Travellers, and the Most Eminent Critics, Volume 1 |
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Pagina iii
An obsolete custom , or some forgotten circumstance , opportunely adverted to ,
will sometimes restore its true perspicuity and credit to a very intricate passage .
BISHOP LOWTH . Philadelphia : PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM W ...
An obsolete custom , or some forgotten circumstance , opportunely adverted to ,
will sometimes restore its true perspicuity and credit to a very intricate passage .
BISHOP LOWTH . Philadelphia : PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM W ...
Pagina viii
... thought . more intelligible ) used such expressions as would accommodate the
phrase to the places where they wrote , which did not only many times pervert the
text , but often rendered the sense ob . scure , and sometimes absurd also .
... thought . more intelligible ) used such expressions as would accommodate the
phrase to the places where they wrote , which did not only many times pervert the
text , but often rendered the sense ob . scure , and sometimes absurd also .
Pagina xi
The style is sometimes prolix , and difficult of conception , and the ar . -
rangement is certainly capable of improvement . On the whole , the book would
be more valuable if it were more select in its subjects and compressed in its
language .
The style is sometimes prolix , and difficult of conception , and the ar . -
rangement is certainly capable of improvement . On the whole , the book would
be more valuable if it were more select in its subjects and compressed in its
language .
Pagina 31
It may here be remarked , that the expression occurs frequently in holy writ , often
in the former sepse , and sometimes even in the astronomical allusion of the
word . In the former acceptation we read , ( Esther ii . 19 . ) of the few , Mordecai ...
It may here be remarked , that the expression occurs frequently in holy writ , often
in the former sepse , and sometimes even in the astronomical allusion of the
word . In the former acceptation we read , ( Esther ii . 19 . ) of the few , Mordecai ...
Pagina 36
says , “ sometimes we lay at night out in the open air , rather than enter a town ;
on which occasions I found the weather as piercing cold as it was distressfully hot
in the day time . " Hence we may clearly see the force and propriety of Jacob ' s ...
says , “ sometimes we lay at night out in the open air , rather than enter a town ;
on which occasions I found the weather as piercing cold as it was distressfully hot
in the day time . " Hence we may clearly see the force and propriety of Jacob ' s ...
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Pagina 414 - And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads ; and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Pagina 157 - There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler : 6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. 7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
Pagina 177 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds: I will be like the most High.
Pagina 393 - Lord must not strive ; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth, and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
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| Titel | Oriental Customs: Or, an Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by an Explanatory Application of the Customs and Manners of the Eastern Nations, and Expecially the Jews, Therien Alluded To, Together with Observations on Many Difficult and Obscure Texts, Collected from the Most ..., Volume 1 Volume 1 van Oriental Customs: Or an Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, Samuel Burder Oriental Customs: Or, an Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by an Explanatory Application of the Customs and Manners of the Eastern Nations, and Expecially the Jews, Therien Alluded To, Together with Observations on Many Difficult and Obscure Texts, Collected from the Most Celebrated Travellers, and the Most Eminent Critics, Samuel Burder |
| Auteur | Samuel Burder |
| Uitgever | William W. Woodward, 1804 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | de University of Michigan |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 23 mei 2007 |
| Lengte | 431 pagina's |
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