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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... Natural , Civil , and Military State of Judæa . IX . ÆGYPT . X. Mifcellaneous Matters . THE THIRD EDITION , Corrected with Care , and enlarged with many new Obfervations ; Numbers of them taken from fome MS . Papers of the celebrated ...
... Natural , Civil , and Military State of Judæa . IX . ÆGYPT . X. Mifcellaneous Matters . THE THIRD EDITION , Corrected with Care , and enlarged with many new Obfervations ; Numbers of them taken from fome MS . Papers of the celebrated ...
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... natural fuppofition , whether that of thofe who imagine , the complaint relates to fome perfons omitting to make him a visit of congratulation , as the Chaldee paraphrast feems to think ; or of thofe who apprehend , it refers to the ...
... natural fuppofition , whether that of thofe who imagine , the complaint relates to fome perfons omitting to make him a visit of congratulation , as the Chaldee paraphrast feems to think ; or of thofe who apprehend , it refers to the ...
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... natural to confider thofe poftures of longer continuance by which ftate or inferiority are expreffed , for neither the one nor the other are forgotten through the whole vifit , in the Eaft . 2 Dr. Pococke , in his firft volume ' , haş ...
... natural to confider thofe poftures of longer continuance by which ftate or inferiority are expreffed , for neither the one nor the other are forgotten through the whole vifit , in the Eaft . 2 Dr. Pococke , in his firft volume ' , haş ...
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... natural to under- stand him of his fending his fervants , to lay a cufhion and a carpet on one of the public feats there , or fomething of that fort , as Sir John fuppofes ; but I do not imagine , a feat in the Street means a feat by a ...
... natural to under- stand him of his fending his fervants , to lay a cufhion and a carpet on one of the public feats there , or fomething of that fort , as Sir John fuppofes ; but I do not imagine , a feat in the Street means a feat by a ...
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... natural to me , upon a collation of the paffages where the word gnares occurs , not to understand it as fignifying the diminutive of a mittah - a couch ; but the furniture of an Eastern divan : and fo where these two words are joined to ...
... natural to me , upon a collation of the paffages where the word gnares occurs , not to understand it as fignifying the diminutive of a mittah - a couch ; but the furniture of an Eastern divan : and fo where these two words are joined to ...
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