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 55
... serve to explain that paffage of the facred hiftorian , which defcribes the heaven as black with wind as well as clouds , 1 Kings xviii . 45 , for neither of these circumstances , a fquall preceding the rain , or its raising great quan ...
... serve to explain that paffage of the facred hiftorian , which defcribes the heaven as black with wind as well as clouds , 1 Kings xviii . 45 , for neither of these circumstances , a fquall preceding the rain , or its raising great quan ...
Page 100
... serve to explain the words of the angel , " He ( Ifhmael ) fhall dwell in the prefence of " all his brethren ? " It is not , indeed , one of the feveral fenfes the Synopfis Criticorum of Pool has given of that claufe , but is it not as ...
... serve to explain the words of the angel , " He ( Ifhmael ) fhall dwell in the prefence of " all his brethren ? " It is not , indeed , one of the feveral fenfes the Synopfis Criticorum of Pool has given of that claufe , but is it not as ...
Page 128
... serve for an amusing explanation of these passages ; and I believe will be allowed to be a more natural illuftration of them than that of the Rabbies3 , who fuppofe that the work of goats which our tranflators determine to mean goats ...
... serve for an amusing explanation of these passages ; and I believe will be allowed to be a more natural illuftration of them than that of the Rabbies3 , who fuppofe that the work of goats which our tranflators determine to mean goats ...
Page 237
... serve to remove a furprize , that this circum- stance may otherwife occafion in the reader of the Mishnah . Every body almost knows that little portable hand - mills are extremely com- mon in the Levant , moveable ovens are not fo well ...
... serve to remove a furprize , that this circum- stance may otherwife occafion in the reader of the Mishnah . Every body almost knows that little portable hand - mills are extremely com- mon in the Levant , moveable ovens are not fo well ...
Page 266
... without controversy , is , that if God covers with fo much glory things of no farther value than to serve the 16 See Dod . Fam . Exp . vol . 1. p . 256 . meanest meanest uses , will he not take care of his 266 Of the Diet of the ...
... without controversy , is , that if God covers with fo much glory things of no farther value than to serve the 16 See Dod . Fam . Exp . vol . 1. p . 256 . meanest meanest uses , will he not take care of his 266 Of the Diet of the ...
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