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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... believe , after the fame man- ner . He did not fit in a manner unbecoming fo dignified a perfonage . ] OBSERVATION XXVII . Sitting in the corner is , more particular- ly , a stately attitude , and expreffive of fupe- riority . So Dr ...
... believe , after the fame man- ner . He did not fit in a manner unbecoming fo dignified a perfonage . ] OBSERVATION XXVII . Sitting in the corner is , more particular- ly , a stately attitude , and expreffive of fupe- riority . So Dr ...
Page 69
... believe most people will be disposed to think the first thought the Bishop gives us gives us fomewhat forced ; nor will the fecond appear very places in the facred writers , may sometimes mean nothing more than the placing the hiran on ...
... believe most people will be disposed to think the first thought the Bishop gives us gives us fomewhat forced ; nor will the fecond appear very places in the facred writers , may sometimes mean nothing more than the placing the hiran on ...
Page 151
... believe , that the in- cruftating materials , that were anciently used for the colouring the engravings on the rock or stone , fuch as Norden faw in E- gypt , are meant by the word tranflated lead here , whether they were preparations ...
... believe , that the in- cruftating materials , that were anciently used for the colouring the engravings on the rock or stone , fuch as Norden faw in E- gypt , are meant by the word tranflated lead here , whether they were preparations ...
Page 155
... believe , that in times fo remote as those of Jofeph , they might be much less common than afterwards , and confequently that Jofeph's being put into a coffin in Ægypt , might be mentioned with a 3 Lett . 7. p . 281 . defign defign to ...
... believe , that in times fo remote as those of Jofeph , they might be much less common than afterwards , and confequently that Jofeph's being put into a coffin in Ægypt , might be mentioned with a 3 Lett . 7. p . 281 . defign defign to ...
Page 161
... believe , prevented them alfo from fwathing him with that accuracy and length of bandage they would otherwise have ufed : the Ægyptians , we are told , have used above a thousand ells of filletting about a body , befides what was ...
... believe , prevented them alfo from fwathing him with that accuracy and length of bandage they would otherwise have ufed : the Ægyptians , we are told , have used above a thousand ells of filletting about a body , befides what was ...
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