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 49
... suppose that the performing these funeral rites was requifite to the appeaf- ing God : but could that be the meaning of the claufe ? Were the ignominy of a death the • Antiq . 13. 6 . VOL . I. E law XII . law of Moses pronounced ...
... suppose that the performing these funeral rites was requifite to the appeaf- ing God : but could that be the meaning of the claufe ? Were the ignominy of a death the • Antiq . 13. 6 . VOL . I. E law XII . law of Moses pronounced ...
Page 50
... suppose there had been no rain at all about Damafcus for five years , but only not the usual , not the neceffary quantities of it , Ariditas Nimia and Pluviarum Inopia being the terms he makes ufe of : and this , I ap- prehend , is all ...
... suppose there had been no rain at all about Damafcus for five years , but only not the usual , not the neceffary quantities of it , Ariditas Nimia and Pluviarum Inopia being the terms he makes ufe of : and this , I ap- prehend , is all ...
Page 83
... suppose Ezekiel thought of this management , when he describeth Rabbah as being to be made a place of camels , which is all the original means , I apprehend , the word being by no means fo determinate as the English term Stable , and ...
... suppose Ezekiel thought of this management , when he describeth Rabbah as being to be made a place of camels , which is all the original means , I apprehend , the word being by no means fo determinate as the English term Stable , and ...
Page 119
... suppose that the ac- commodations of an Emir of thefe times , fuch as la Roque gives us an account of from d'Arvieux , is a reprefentation of the way of living of the Patriarchs , who were treated as princes by the people of those ...
... suppose that the ac- commodations of an Emir of thefe times , fuch as la Roque gives us an account of from d'Arvieux , is a reprefentation of the way of living of the Patriarchs , who were treated as princes by the people of those ...
Page 187
... suppose , he would rather have compared what was feen in this auguft vifion to them , than to a floor of painted tile , though fuch an one is not with- out its beauty ' ; which ought to be remark- ed , to prevent our receiving ...
... suppose , he would rather have compared what was feen in this auguft vifion to them , than to a floor of painted tile , though fuch an one is not with- out its beauty ' ; which ought to be remark- ed , to prevent our receiving ...
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