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 vii
... several things defignedly to illuftrate the Scriptures , and commentators have adopted fome of his remarks ' ; but befides thefe , he has men- tioned other matters , which my reader will fee might have been applied to the fame use : but ...
... several things defignedly to illuftrate the Scriptures , and commentators have adopted fome of his remarks ' ; but befides thefe , he has men- tioned other matters , which my reader will fee might have been applied to the fame use : but ...
Page 29
... several days of ferenity , and undifturbed pleafant- nefs , the weather of Judæa in this refpect being , I prefume , like that at Algiers , where after two or three days of rain , there is usually , according to Dr. Shaw , a week , a ...
... several days of ferenity , and undifturbed pleafant- nefs , the weather of Judæa in this refpect being , I prefume , like that at Algiers , where after two or three days of rain , there is usually , according to Dr. Shaw , a week , a ...
Page 32
... Several houfes , mills , and bridges , were thrown down , and feveral people drowned . Seven out of eight in one houfe were either flain by the fall of it , or drowned . The rapidness of the torrent was fo violent , that it took down ...
... Several houfes , mills , and bridges , were thrown down , and feveral people drowned . Seven out of eight in one houfe were either flain by the fall of it , or drowned . The rapidness of the torrent was fo violent , that it took down ...
Page 80
... several months " without great difficulty . There is not a " more agreeable fight in the world , than " the beholding in the months of Novem- " ber , December , and January , those vast " meadows , where the grafs , almost as high 66 as ...
... several months " without great difficulty . There is not a " more agreeable fight in the world , than " the beholding in the months of Novem- " ber , December , and January , those vast " meadows , where the grafs , almost as high 66 as ...
Page 116
... Several Arabian tribes can bring no more than three or four hundred horfes into the field , Dr. Shaw fays : fo that it is no wonder that Abraham was confidered in ancient days as a confiderable prince , at the head of a powerful clan ...
... Several Arabian tribes can bring no more than three or four hundred horfes into the field , Dr. Shaw fays : fo that it is no wonder that Abraham was confidered in ancient days as a confiderable prince , at the head of a powerful clan ...
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