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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... shall be philofophically complete . The flat - roof of any building that hath but one fpout for car- rying off the water , might be a measurer of the different quantities of the fallen rain fuf- ficiently accurate ; as the fetting down ...
... shall be philofophically complete . The flat - roof of any building that hath but one fpout for car- rying off the water , might be a measurer of the different quantities of the fallen rain fuf- ficiently accurate ; as the fetting down ...
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... shall not waste , neither shall the crufe of “ oil fail , until the day that the Lord fendeth rain 66 upon the earth ; " but from the day of the coming of the rain unto that of having corn must there not be a confiderable time ? He an ...
... shall not waste , neither shall the crufe of “ oil fail , until the day that the Lord fendeth rain 66 upon the earth ; " but from the day of the coming of the rain unto that of having corn must there not be a confiderable time ? He an ...
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... shall not see wind , nei- " ther fhall ye fee rain ; yet that valley shall " be filled with water , that ye may drink , " both ye , and your cattle , and your beafts , 2 Kings iii . 16 , 17. It was natural for a fquall to precede this ...
... shall not see wind , nei- " ther fhall ye fee rain ; yet that valley shall " be filled with water , that ye may drink , " both ye , and your cattle , and your beafts , 2 Kings iii . 16 , 17. It was natural for a fquall to precede this ...
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... shall fay nothing about them here . OBSERVATION XVIII . Our tranflators were at a lofs how to render Prov . xxv . 23 : they could not tell whether Solomon fpoke of the north wind as driving away rain , or bringing it forth , and ...
... shall fay nothing about them here . OBSERVATION XVIII . Our tranflators were at a lofs how to render Prov . xxv . 23 : they could not tell whether Solomon fpoke of the north wind as driving away rain , or bringing it forth , and ...
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... shall visit that country . [ I will only add here , that if fruits ripen at Aleppo , Jerufalem , and in Barbary , nearly at the fame time , it must have been the lat- ter end of July , or rather the beginning of August , that the Spies ...
... shall visit that country . [ I will only add here , that if fruits ripen at Aleppo , Jerufalem , and in Barbary , nearly at the fame time , it must have been the lat- ter end of July , or rather the beginning of August , that the Spies ...
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according Ægypt affures againſt agreeable Aleppo alfo alſo ancient anfwer appears Arabs baked Barbary barley becauſe befides bread Chardin circumftance confequently confiderable corn cuſtom d'Arvieux defcribes deferts defigned diftinction doth Eaft Eaſt Eaſtern Egmont and Heyman Egypt exprefs facred faid fame fays fecond feems fent ferved feveral fhall fhould fide fignifies fince firft firſt fmall fome fomething fometimes fpeaks ftill fuch fufficient fummer fuppofe himſelf Holy-Land honey houfes houſes Ifrael Ifraelites illuftrate imagine Jerufalem Judæa Kenites kind Kings lefs Maillet manner mentioned Mofes moft moſt muft muſt obferved occafion paffage Perfia perfons places Pococke prefent Prophet publiſhed purpoſe rain reafon Ruffell ſeems Septuagint Shaw Sir John Chardin Solomon ſpeak ſuppoſed tells tents thefe themſelves theſe theſe countries Thevenot thing thofe thoſe tion tranflated travellers ufual underſtand underſtood uſed veffel wine wont word