Illustrations of Biblical Literature Exhibiting the History and Fate of the Sacred Writings ...: Including Biographical Notices of Translators and Other ... Biblical Scholars, Volume 1Carlton, 1856 - Bible |
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... employed by the archbishop to purchase Ori- * Dr. Clarke's Commentary on Deuteronomy . + Marsh's Course of Lectures on Divinity , sec . 10 , p . 86 , sec . 9 , p . 93 , pt . ii . Cam- bridge , 1810 . ental manuscripts was Mr. Thomas ...
... employed by the archbishop to purchase Ori- * Dr. Clarke's Commentary on Deuteronomy . + Marsh's Course of Lectures on Divinity , sec . 10 , p . 86 , sec . 9 , p . 93 , pt . ii . Cam- bridge , 1810 . ental manuscripts was Mr. Thomas ...
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... employ the leaf of the talipot - tree . From these leaves , which are of im- mense size , they cut out slips , from a foot to a foot and a half long , and about a couple of inches broad . These slips are smoothed , and all excrescences ...
... employ the leaf of the talipot - tree . From these leaves , which are of im- mense size , they cut out slips , from a foot to a foot and a half long , and about a couple of inches broad . These slips are smoothed , and all excrescences ...
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... Hindoos . The White Jews are of later settlement . ( See Buchanan's " Christian Researches . " ) See Yeates's Collation , p . 11 . The skins of fishes were also sometimes employed for writing 1 32 BIBLICAL LITERATURE ,
... Hindoos . The White Jews are of later settlement . ( See Buchanan's " Christian Researches . " ) See Yeates's Collation , p . 11 . The skins of fishes were also sometimes employed for writing 1 32 BIBLICAL LITERATURE ,
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... employed for writing upon ; and Zonoras ( Annal . , lib . iii ) relates , that the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer were written upon the intestines of a serpent , in characters of gold , forming a roll one hundred feet in length . This ...
... employed for writing upon ; and Zonoras ( Annal . , lib . iii ) relates , that the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer were written upon the intestines of a serpent , in characters of gold , forming a roll one hundred feet in length . This ...
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... employed in these services , from the word bog , which in their lan- guage is the name of that sort of wood , they and all other northern nations have the name of book . The poorer sort used bark ; and the horns of reindeer and elks ...
... employed in these services , from the word bog , which in their lan- guage is the name of that sort of wood , they and all other northern nations have the name of book . The poorer sort used bark ; and the horns of reindeer and elks ...
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