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... idea of a dull , sensual , yet cunning man . There was nothing in his countenance to recommend him ; bloated , with a heavy stupid expression , a little relieved certainly by small restless eyes that glanced at me whenever 8 THE ...
... idea of a dull , sensual , yet cunning man . There was nothing in his countenance to recommend him ; bloated , with a heavy stupid expression , a little relieved certainly by small restless eyes that glanced at me whenever 8 THE ...
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... idea of granting public benefit , at the expense of his prerogative was never entertained for a moment , the intentions of the King being limited to shewing personal favour alone , which he is ever ready to concede even now to English ...
... idea of granting public benefit , at the expense of his prerogative was never entertained for a moment , the intentions of the King being limited to shewing personal favour alone , which he is ever ready to concede even now to English ...
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... idea is wished to be conveyed of the large dependent retinue that the master of the house feeds . A few large jars containing water , or ale , ranged along one side of the house , and a shield hung from the projecting end of one of the ...
... idea is wished to be conveyed of the large dependent retinue that the master of the house feeds . A few large jars containing water , or ale , ranged along one side of the house , and a shield hung from the projecting end of one of the ...
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... idea of the form of the countenance and the head peculiar to this family of man , by a description drawn from my first observations in that town , where the people have less admixture of Galla blood , than the inha- bitants of the table ...
... idea of the form of the countenance and the head peculiar to this family of man , by a description drawn from my first observations in that town , where the people have less admixture of Galla blood , than the inha- bitants of the table ...
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... idea as Esau and Edom , which by all Biblical commentators , is allowed to be the colour red . " And the first came out red , all over like an hairy garment ; and they called his name Esau . " ( Genesis xxv . 25. ) In the present ...
... idea as Esau and Edom , which by all Biblical commentators , is allowed to be the colour red . " And the first came out red , all over like an hairy garment ; and they called his name Esau . " ( Genesis xxv . 25. ) In the present ...
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Abyssinian Adal Africa ahmulahs Aliu Amba Amharic Amharic language ancient Angolahlah Ankobar appears Arabic arrival balderabah bread brought called cayenne character Christian colour considered cotton court custom Dankalli Dinnomalee dollars durgo earthenware Efat Embassy Enarea endeavour Ethiopia Farree favour feet formed friends Galla Geez language Gibbee Gongas Goodaloo Governor grain Gurague Hawash hill honey horn Hy Soumaulee inhabitants Islam jars Kafilah Karissa kind King Mahomed Mahomedan Mahriam manner memolagee monarch morning mule Myolones nearly Negoos Nile observed occasion occupied Ohmed Ohmed Medina palace palace hill party placed portion possession present received religion residence river road roof Sahale Selassee salt saltpetre sent servants Sheik Tigh Shoa Shoans side situation skin slaves soon stone straw supposed table land tedge teff thatched Tinta tion town traveller tree Walderheros Wallasmah whilst whole women Zingero
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Page 186 - This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
Page 161 - Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land ? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
Page 187 - He will take the tenth of your sheep : and ye shall be his servants. And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day.
Page 158 - Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan ; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
Page 187 - And he will take your fields, and your vineyards and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. And he will take the tenth of your seed and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
Page 435 - Then come the inhabitants, and place one or more parcels of gold upon the wares, and wait outside the enclosure. The owners of the flesh and other goods then examine whether this be equal to the price or not. If so, they take the gold, and the others take the wares ; if not, the latter still add more gold, or take back what they had already put down. The trade is carried on in this manner because the languages are different, and they have no interpreter : it takes about five days to dispose of the...
Page 434 - In the meantime having slain and cut up their oxen, they lay the pieces of flesh, as well as the iron, and salt, upon the thorns. Then come the inhabitants, and place one or more parcels of gold upon the wares, and wait outside the enclosure. The owners of the flesh, and other goods, then examine whether this be equal to the price or not.
Page 157 - And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
Page 272 - ... be dreadfully severe. I can answer for this, that it occasions frequent miscarriages, often fatal to the mother, and even men have been known, after a large dose, to have died the same day from its consequences.