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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... These in- ftances are curious exemplifications of Mr. Maundrell's account of the nature of some of the Eastern prefents , and ought by no means to be omitted in collections of the kind I am now making . How much happier was the ...
... These in- ftances are curious exemplifications of Mr. Maundrell's account of the nature of some of the Eastern prefents , and ought by no means to be omitted in collections of the kind I am now making . How much happier was the ...
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... these , " which they diftribute to Cairo , and all " other parts of Egypt . They fend them " down in great floats , confifting of many " thoufands , lafhed together in fuch a man- ner as to bear the weight of feveral people upon them ...
... these , " which they diftribute to Cairo , and all " other parts of Egypt . They fend them " down in great floats , confifting of many " thoufands , lafhed together in fuch a man- ner as to bear the weight of feveral people upon them ...
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... these efforts of his'against the ene- mies of their country , till the affair with the Ammonites perfectly fettled his authority . Whether the refractoriness of these people was the cause or not , I am not able to fay , but it seems ...
... these efforts of his'against the ene- mies of their country , till the affair with the Ammonites perfectly fettled his authority . Whether the refractoriness of these people was the cause or not , I am not able to fay , but it seems ...
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... these commentators must have fuppofed the Prophet Elifha's were full as large , to be able to make use of forty camel - loads of provifions , equivalent to twenty thousand pound weight at leaft , during his stay at Damascus . 6 s In his ...
... these commentators must have fuppofed the Prophet Elifha's were full as large , to be able to make use of forty camel - loads of provifions , equivalent to twenty thousand pound weight at leaft , during his stay at Damascus . 6 s In his ...
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... these marks of attention paid to potent princes . ] OBSERVATION VIII . Maillet , in that paffage I quoted in the laft article but one , fpeaks diminutively of the cobcal , or wooden fandals of the ladies , which are carried in their ...
... these marks of attention paid to potent princes . ] OBSERVATION VIII . Maillet , in that paffage I quoted in the laft article but one , fpeaks diminutively of the cobcal , or wooden fandals of the ladies , which are carried in their ...
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