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 7
... suppose . 3 Sir John Chardin tells us , fomewhere in his travels , of an officer whofe bufinefs it was to register the prefents that were made to his master , or miftrefs ; and I have fince found the fame practice obtains at the Otto ...
... suppose . 3 Sir John Chardin tells us , fomewhere in his travels , of an officer whofe bufinefs it was to register the prefents that were made to his master , or miftrefs ; and I have fince found the fame practice obtains at the Otto ...
Page 45
... suppose that this kiffing the earth by con- quered kings is scarcely imaginable . Vitringa reproaches him for it ; but Vitringa ' gives no inftance of this fort , which certainly it would have been right for him to have done , in ...
... suppose that this kiffing the earth by con- quered kings is scarcely imaginable . Vitringa reproaches him for it ; but Vitringa ' gives no inftance of this fort , which certainly it would have been right for him to have done , in ...
Page 64
... suppose the word in the original is to be confidered as a proper name , and to be tranflated Damafcus , becaufe Ifrael did • La Roque's description of the faloon in which he din- ed with the Scheik of Balbec , may illuftrate this part ...
... suppose the word in the original is to be confidered as a proper name , and to be tranflated Damafcus , becaufe Ifrael did • La Roque's description of the faloon in which he din- ed with the Scheik of Balbec , may illuftrate this part ...
Page 82
... suppose the pomp with which Alex- ander the Great was received into that very city of Babylon , ( where Daniel now was , ) a few generations after , was idolatrous , and paid to him as a God , without fufficient rea- fon . The pomp , as ...
... suppose the pomp with which Alex- ander the Great was received into that very city of Babylon , ( where Daniel now was , ) a few generations after , was idolatrous , and paid to him as a God , without fufficient rea- fon . The pomp , as ...
Page 85
... suppose af- ter all this , that they were idolatrous , will feem to me almost as perverse , as to ima- gine the burning fweet odours at the death of King Afa , 2 Chron . xvi . 14 , was the folemnity of an Apotheofis : but vehemently ...
... suppose af- ter all this , that they were idolatrous , will feem to me almost as perverse , as to ima- gine the burning fweet odours at the death of King Afa , 2 Chron . xvi . 14 , was the folemnity of an Apotheofis : but vehemently ...
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