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 iii
... some of their prefent cuftoms , and certain correfpond- ing paffages of Scripture -- It has been done most certainly , and the resemblance has been so ftriking , and the thing fo curious , that they could not in fome cases well avoid ...
... some of their prefent cuftoms , and certain correfpond- ing paffages of Scripture -- It has been done most certainly , and the resemblance has been so ftriking , and the thing fo curious , that they could not in fome cases well avoid ...
Page xii
... some particular views in involving his account in all this con- fufion ; but as the perplexity was very difagree- able to me , I have been ready to imagine my reader , if ever he fhould perufe thofe Travels , will not be displeased with ...
... some particular views in involving his account in all this con- fufion ; but as the perplexity was very difagree- able to me , I have been ready to imagine my reader , if ever he fhould perufe thofe Travels , will not be displeased with ...
Page xv
... some of read- my ers , and perhaps give difguft to more : I mean the orthographical variations , which will be found in thefe papers , fuch as Bafhaw , Bafha , Baffa , Pafha , Bassa , Pacha , which are different ways of fpelling the ...
... some of read- my ers , and perhaps give difguft to more : I mean the orthographical variations , which will be found in thefe papers , fuch as Bafhaw , Bafha , Baffa , Pafha , Bassa , Pacha , which are different ways of fpelling the ...
Page xvii
... Some of thefe are mentioned in the Preface to the Out- lines of a new Commentary on Solomon's Song , published fome years after my Obfervations : Haffelquist in particu- lar , a celebrated Swedish Phyfician , whofe Travels were ...
... Some of thefe are mentioned in the Preface to the Out- lines of a new Commentary on Solomon's Song , published fome years after my Obfervations : Haffelquist in particu- lar , a celebrated Swedish Phyfician , whofe Travels were ...
Page xix
... Some of my Readers would have been pleafed , very poffibly , with the publication of feveral particulars of thefe MSS , confidered merely as detached remarks from the papers of an eminent Traveller ; but as explaining or il- luftrating ...
... Some of my Readers would have been pleafed , very poffibly , with the publication of feveral particulars of thefe MSS , confidered merely as detached remarks from the papers of an eminent Traveller ; but as explaining or il- luftrating ...
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