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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... say , there are many other things that have occurred to me in reading them , befides those I have fet down , which I have chofen to pafs over in filence , for want of fufficient precision in thofe Authors , and of the means of ...
... say , there are many other things that have occurred to me in reading them , befides those I have fet down , which I have chofen to pafs over in filence , for want of fufficient precision in thofe Authors , and of the means of ...
Page 16
... say of God , " He giveth his fnow like " wool , * he fcattereth the hoar - froft like . 3 2 3 Gefta Dei per Francos , p . 1130 . " afhes , 2 P. 307 . [ 3 If the fnow in Judæa was like what falls in fome coun- tries of the Eaft , there ...
... say of God , " He giveth his fnow like " wool , * he fcattereth the hoar - froft like . 3 2 3 Gefta Dei per Francos , p . 1130 . " afhes , 2 P. 307 . [ 3 If the fnow in Judæa was like what falls in fome coun- tries of the Eaft , there ...
Page 61
... the truth of what he says of the direction of the hot winds at Aleppo ; nor can we doubt I 1 Ruffell , p . 14 , 15 . P. 152 . 2 Luke 12. 55 . 3 Tome 2 . : of រ of their direction being from the fouth in Judæa in the Holy - Land . 61.
... the truth of what he says of the direction of the hot winds at Aleppo ; nor can we doubt I 1 Ruffell , p . 14 , 15 . P. 152 . 2 Luke 12. 55 . 3 Tome 2 . : of រ of their direction being from the fouth in Judæa in the Holy - Land . 61.
Page 119
... with mats made of reeds . Whether he is exact here , or not , I am not able to say , but the original word is rofeaux , that is , reeds . ] I 4 beau- XIII . beautiful , ftitched with gold and filk , in the Holy - Land . 119.
... with mats made of reeds . Whether he is exact here , or not , I am not able to say , but the original word is rofeaux , that is , reeds . ] I 4 beau- XIII . beautiful , ftitched with gold and filk , in the Holy - Land . 119.
Page 138
... says , the Curds of Meso- potamia do , but it is not common ; other nations generally live in booths , or huts of reeds or boughs , or other materials , for there is a great variety in the defcriptions that travellers have given us of ...
... says , the Curds of Meso- potamia do , but it is not common ; other nations generally live in booths , or huts of reeds or boughs , or other materials , for there is a great variety in the defcriptions that travellers have given us of ...
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