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 xiii
... States of Barbary , ( by a Gentleman that refided there many years in a pub- lic character , ) which I made ufe of , was printed at London in 1750. My reader will alfo find that I have run over the two Volumes , in Folio , of a ...
... States of Barbary , ( by a Gentleman that refided there many years in a pub- lic character , ) which I made ufe of , was printed at London in 1750. My reader will alfo find that I have run over the two Volumes , in Folio , of a ...
Page 7
... state of pleasantness : for this we have not only the decifive authority of natural historians , but even grammarians derive the 3 Jofephus de Bell . Jud . lib . iii . cap . 3 . p . 26 , 27 , B 4 6 • V. 3 . word word which fignifies ...
... state of pleasantness : for this we have not only the decifive authority of natural historians , but even grammarians derive the 3 Jofephus de Bell . Jud . lib . iii . cap . 3 . p . 26 , 27 , B 4 6 • V. 3 . word word which fignifies ...
Page 21
... state of Saladine's troops , after their defeat in the neighbourhood of Afcalon , which I took fome 7 V. 3. p . 160. 8 Gefta Dei per Fr. p . 1011 . C 3 8 notice 9 notice of under the laft obfervation , but which in the Holy - Land . 21.
... state of Saladine's troops , after their defeat in the neighbourhood of Afcalon , which I took fome 7 V. 3. p . 160. 8 Gefta Dei per Fr. p . 1011 . C 3 8 notice 9 notice of under the laft obfervation , but which in the Holy - Land . 21.
Page 42
... state of things as is unwonted , is impoffible , in the countries of the east : for never have we seen rain in these Provinces , continues he , and efpecially in Ju- dea , in the end of June , or in the month of July , and to no purpofe ...
... state of things as is unwonted , is impoffible , in the countries of the east : for never have we seen rain in these Provinces , continues he , and efpecially in Ju- dea , in the end of June , or in the month of July , and to no purpofe ...
Page 85
... states of Barbary tells us , who obferves , that the Moors of that country are divided into tribes like the Arabians , and like them dwell in tents form- ed into itinerant villages ; that “ these wan- " derers farm lands of the ...
... states of Barbary tells us , who obferves , that the Moors of that country are divided into tribes like the Arabians , and like them dwell in tents form- ed into itinerant villages ; that “ these wan- " derers farm lands of the ...
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