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
... quantity of bread , eggs , 66 bardacks , & c . ' . " Thefe bardacks he had 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 ...
... quantity of bread , eggs , 66 bardacks , & c . ' . " Thefe bardacks he had 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 ...
Page 78
... quantities in the province of Fajhum . The flowers are , it seems , of a pale colour , not quite white , but rather ... quantity of water is diftilled every year at Fajhum , and fold in Egypt , being exported even to other countries ...
... quantities in the province of Fajhum . The flowers are , it seems , of a pale colour , not quite white , but rather ... quantity of water is diftilled every year at Fajhum , and fold in Egypt , being exported even to other countries ...
Page 119
... quantity of gold to be in- · ftantly made into bullets , proper to be shot out of cross - bows , which he and his courtiers threw , by this means , upon every terrace of the city where he faw their garments laid a drying Agreeably to ...
... quantity of gold to be in- · ftantly made into bullets , proper to be shot out of cross - bows , which he and his courtiers threw , by this means , upon every terrace of the city where he faw their garments laid a drying Agreeably to ...
Page 162
... quantity , which he tells us , from Bishop Kidder , a modern Jew has made an objection against the hiftory of the New - Teftament , affirming that it was enough for two hundred dead bodies , ( which is fay- ing , in other words , that ...
... quantity , which he tells us , from Bishop Kidder , a modern Jew has made an objection against the hiftory of the New - Teftament , affirming that it was enough for two hundred dead bodies , ( which is fay- ing , in other words , that ...
Page 163
... quantity of the Spices used in their interments , the greater honour was thought to be done to the dead ' , we may easily account for the quantity Nicodemus brought in general , though we may not be able to tell , with the precifion ...
... quantity of the Spices used in their interments , the greater honour was thought to be done to the dead ' , we may easily account for the quantity Nicodemus brought in general , though we may not be able to tell , with the precifion ...
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