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... most rare , or which have not been hitherto described . Yet fuch caution has been every where taken in these , and in a few other omiffions and abridgments of less account , that little or nothing material or properly effential to the ...
... most rare , or which have not been hitherto described . Yet fuch caution has been every where taken in these , and in a few other omiffions and abridgments of less account , that little or nothing material or properly effential to the ...
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... most of the inland towns and villages , particu- larly of Barbary , there is a house set apart for the reception of ftrangers ; with a proper officer , called maharak , to attend us ; where we are lodged and entertained for one night at ...
... most of the inland towns and villages , particu- larly of Barbary , there is a house set apart for the reception of ftrangers ; with a proper officer , called maharak , to attend us ; where we are lodged and entertained for one night at ...
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... most remarkable inland places and inhabitants of the Western province . CHAP . V. p . 22 . Of the fea - coaft of that part of the Mauritania Cæfarienfis , called the Southern province , or province of Titterie . p . 32 . CHAP . VI . Of ...
... most remarkable inland places and inhabitants of the Western province . CHAP . V. p . 22 . Of the fea - coaft of that part of the Mauritania Cæfarienfis , called the Southern province , or province of Titterie . p . 32 . CHAP . VI . Of ...
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... most confiderable districts of that part of Africa , which the later ages have known by the name of Barbary . It is bounded to the weft , with Twunt and the neigh- bouring mountains of Trara ; to the fouth , with the Sahara , or defert ...
... most confiderable districts of that part of Africa , which the later ages have known by the name of Barbary . It is bounded to the weft , with Twunt and the neigh- bouring mountains of Trara ; to the fouth , with the Sahara , or defert ...
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... most advanced parts of the moun- tains of Atlas ; which , indeed , for the most part , coincide with them . Some of the villages indeed of the province of Zaab and others like- wife , that have a more diftant fituation from Algiers ...
... most advanced parts of the moun- tains of Atlas ; which , indeed , for the most part , coincide with them . Some of the villages indeed of the province of Zaab and others like- wife , that have a more diftant fituation from Algiers ...
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Page 408 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs : "But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...
Page 208 - ... falling from it into the court. From the cloisters and galleries, we are conducted into large spacious chambers, of the same length with the court, but seldom or never communicating with one another. One of them frequently serves a whole family, particularly when a father indulges his married children to live with him, or when several persons join in the rent of the same house.
Page 338 - But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped...
Page 215 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Page 188 - A day or two after one of these broods was in motion, others were already hatched to march and glean after them, gnawing off the very bark and the young branches of such trees as had before escaped with the loss only of their fruit and foliage. So justly have they been compared by the prophet to a great army ; who further observes, that the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness.
Page 167 - Shekb, who conducted us to Mount Sinai, rode upon a camel of this kind, and would frequently divert us with a token of its great abilities.
Page 229 - None of these ladies," says Shaw, " take themselves to be completely dressed, till they have tinged the hair and edges of their eyelids with the powder of lead ore. Now, as this operation is performed by dipping first into the powder a small wooden bodkin of the thickness of a quill, and then drawing it afterwards through the eyelids over the ball of the eye, we shall have a lively image of what the Prophet (Jer.
Page 188 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 215 - Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made...