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 93
... translation : " Have they not fped ? Have they not divi- " ded the prey ? -To Sifera a prey of divers " colours , a prey of divers colours of needle- " work ( or embroidery of divers colours of " needle - work ) on both fides , meet for ...
... translation : " Have they not fped ? Have they not divi- " ded the prey ? -To Sifera a prey of divers " colours , a prey of divers colours of needle- " work ( or embroidery of divers colours of " needle - work ) on both fides , meet for ...
Page 143
... translation of the celebrated Schultens , and Dr. Grey's notes extracted from him , is this : Who will write my words ! Who will record them in a book ! Let them be en- graven on fome fepulchral ftone , with an iron pen , and with lead ...
... translation of the celebrated Schultens , and Dr. Grey's notes extracted from him , is this : Who will write my words ! Who will record them in a book ! Let them be en- graven on fome fepulchral ftone , with an iron pen , and with lead ...
Page 240
... translation , if it be one , is not so evident to me as to this writer : I cannot , however , but obferve here , that Sir John's way of rendering the words feemeth to be very much favoured by Job 41. 24 , " His heart is as firm as a ...
... translation , if it be one , is not so evident to me as to this writer : I cannot , however , but obferve here , that Sir John's way of rendering the words feemeth to be very much favoured by Job 41. 24 , " His heart is as firm as a ...
Page 332
... translations are con- formable to that of the Seventy , an Ægyp- tian work . Ludolphus , from the Arabic , has proposed to tranflate the third word let- tuce , or falads in general ' , instead of leeks . To enable us to judge of this in ...
... translations are con- formable to that of the Seventy , an Ægyp- tian work . Ludolphus , from the Arabic , has proposed to tranflate the third word let- tuce , or falads in general ' , instead of leeks . To enable us to judge of this in ...
Page 407
... translate it in the fame manner * : and is it not more natural to explain it in this paf- fage , which fpeaks of woe , of forrow , of wounds , after this manner , than of a red face ? If the word is understood in this fenfe , in this ...
... translate it in the fame manner * : and is it not more natural to explain it in this paf- fage , which fpeaks of woe , of forrow , of wounds , after this manner , than of a red face ? If the word is understood in this fenfe , in this ...
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