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 12
... described a little before , in fpeaking of a town called Kenne : " Its chief manufac- tory , " he there tells us , " is in bardacks , " to cool and refresh their water in , by means " of which it drinks very cool and pleasant " in the ...
... described a little before , in fpeaking of a town called Kenne : " Its chief manufac- tory , " he there tells us , " is in bardacks , " to cool and refresh their water in , by means " of which it drinks very cool and pleasant " in the ...
Page 17
... the bridegroom's houfe three days before the wedding . The like management obtains in Ægypt , and is very livelily described by VOL . II . * P. 112 . C Maillet 4 . ! Maillet , in his account of that country * in the Holy - Land . 17.
... the bridegroom's houfe three days before the wedding . The like management obtains in Ægypt , and is very livelily described by VOL . II . * P. 112 . C Maillet 4 . ! Maillet , in his account of that country * in the Holy - Land . 17.
Page 82
... described by Curtius confifted in ftrewing flowers and garlands in the way , burning frankincenfe and other odours on each fide of the places through which he passed , making him royal presents , and fing- ing , and playing upon ...
... described by Curtius confifted in ftrewing flowers and garlands in the way , burning frankincenfe and other odours on each fide of the places through which he passed , making him royal presents , and fing- ing , and playing upon ...
Page 289
... described them to be like angels of God in point of Knowledge ; they have alfo contended for their poffeffing the power of healing a virulent diforder by their royal touch in both affertions they have been equally in the right ...
... described them to be like angels of God in point of Knowledge ; they have alfo contended for their poffeffing the power of healing a virulent diforder by their royal touch in both affertions they have been equally in the right ...
Page 320
... described the hippopotamus as nearly invul- nerable . Maillet tells us , " it's fkin is two fingers thick , and that it is so much the more difficult to kill it , as there is only a small place in it's forehead , where it can " be ...
... described the hippopotamus as nearly invul- nerable . Maillet tells us , " it's fkin is two fingers thick , and that it is so much the more difficult to kill it , as there is only a small place in it's forehead , where it can " be ...
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