Observations on Divers Passages of Scripture. Placing Many of Them in a Light Altogether New ... and More Amply Illustrating the Rest Than Has Been Yet Done, by Means of Circumstances Incidentally Mentioned in Books of Voyages and Travels Into the East: In Two Volumes. ... |
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Page 108
Among these he mentions the places of the Baptist ' s and our Lord ' s nativity ,
and where St . Anne was delivered of the Blessed Virgin ; but whether all these
were among the things that , according to his views , could not probably have ...
Among these he mentions the places of the Baptist ' s and our Lord ' s nativity ,
and where St . Anne was delivered of the Blessed Virgin ; but whether all these
were among the things that , according to his views , could not probably have ...
Page 144
The nature of some of the things carried to David , when beyond Jordan , seems
to intimate , that that prince , and the people with him , were then in some fort
encamped in the Wilderness , David not being at that time sufficiently assured of
the ...
The nature of some of the things carried to David , when beyond Jordan , seems
to intimate , that that prince , and the people with him , were then in some fort
encamped in the Wilderness , David not being at that time sufficiently assured of
the ...
Page 237
... as easy to them to part with as many other things , whether presented in order
to obtain some favour , or demanded as a ... the universal custom through the
East of making presents to the great , says , that “ every thing s is received , even
by ...
... as easy to them to part with as many other things , whether presented in order
to obtain some favour , or demanded as a ... the universal custom through the
East of making presents to the great , says , that “ every thing s is received , even
by ...
Page 368
We are ready decidedly to condemn the giving finall sums of money to great
personages by way of present , or things of little value . We consider such
managements as affronting ; ITO \ Vol . 2 , ch . 6 , obf . 1 . they they were
consistent with ...
We are ready decidedly to condemn the giving finall sums of money to great
personages by way of present , or things of little value . We consider such
managements as affronting ; ITO \ Vol . 2 , ch . 6 , obf . 1 . they they were
consistent with ...
Page 370
There , among other things , we shall find 3 Flemish caps ; 2 robes of good green
' ; the promise of as many lampreys as a man could get ' ; 10 marks and 3 hawks '
; 10 bulls and 10 cows * ; 200 hens by a good woman to have access to her ...
There , among other things , we shall find 3 Flemish caps ; 2 robes of good green
' ; the promise of as many lampreys as a man could get ' ; 10 marks and 3 hawks '
; 10 bulls and 10 cows * ; 200 hens by a good woman to have access to her ...
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| Title | Observations on Divers Passages of Scripture. Placing Many of Them in a Light Altogether New ... and More Amply Illustrating the Rest Than Has Been Yet Done, by Means of Circumstances Incidentally Mentioned in Books of Voyages and Travels Into the East: In Two Volumes. ... Volume 3 of Observations on Divers Passages of Scripture. Placing Many of Them in a Light Altogether New ... and More Amply Illustrating the Rest Than Has Been Yet Done, by Means of Circumstances Incidentally Mentioned in Books of Voyages and Travels Into the East: In Two Volumes, Sir John Chardin |
| Author | Thomas Harmer |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1787 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Jun 2007 |
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