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. ...J. Johnson, 1797 |
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Page 11
... same time a fine illuftration of Job's defcription of the treasures of the East in his days , con- fifting of raiment as well as filver , Job . xxvii . 16 , 178 . OBSERVATION III . [ They not only make prefents of provi- fions , but of ...
... same time a fine illuftration of Job's defcription of the treasures of the East in his days , con- fifting of raiment as well as filver , Job . xxvii . 16 , 178 . OBSERVATION III . [ They not only make prefents of provi- fions , but of ...
Page 97
... same time that they promised others life ? They perhaps may be reprefented as covering the heads of thofe they by their prophefyings destined unto death ; as the head of Haman was covered when he was really in those circumftances . No ...
... same time that they promised others life ? They perhaps may be reprefented as covering the heads of thofe they by their prophefyings destined unto death ; as the head of Haman was covered when he was really in those circumftances . No ...
Page 156
... same author tells us , are carried to the grave on an open bier ' ; but as the most common kind of bier there very much resembles our coffins , that used by the people of Naim might very poffibly be of the fame kind , in which cafe the ...
... same author tells us , are carried to the grave on an open bier ' ; but as the most common kind of bier there very much resembles our coffins , that used by the people of Naim might very poffibly be of the fame kind , in which cafe the ...
Page 177
... same name twice made ufe of , so far as our lights reach , it fhould feem moft probable that these are the names of thofe very Pfalms to which they are prefixed . The forty - second Pfalm , it may be thought , might very well have been ...
... same name twice made ufe of , so far as our lights reach , it fhould feem moft probable that these are the names of thofe very Pfalms to which they are prefixed . The forty - second Pfalm , it may be thought , might very well have been ...
Page 197
... same time better tafted than the honey of a hive ; but we find by Haffelquist that they actually make ufe of hives at this day , though of a very different conftruction from those of our country . Q 3 odori- 1 odoriferous plants that ...
... same time better tafted than the honey of a hive ; but we find by Haffelquist that they actually make ufe of hives at this day , though of a very different conftruction from those of our country . Q 3 odori- 1 odoriferous plants that ...
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