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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... Aleppo to Jerufalem , at Eafter , A.D. 1697 ; and the fourth edition of Pitt's Account of the Religion and Man- ners of the Mahometans , printed in 1738. The History of the Piratical States of Barbary , ( by a Gentleman that refided ...
... Aleppo to Jerufalem , at Eafter , A.D. 1697 ; and the fourth edition of Pitt's Account of the Religion and Man- ners of the Mahometans , printed in 1738. The History of the Piratical States of Barbary , ( by a Gentleman that refided ...
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... Aleppo , & c . in the year 1750 , fecond edition , 1758 ; a View of the Levant , particularly of Con- ftantinople , Syria , Ægypt , and Greece , by Charles Perry , M. D. London , 1743 ; and the Travels of Alexander Drummond , Esquire ...
... Aleppo , & c . in the year 1750 , fecond edition , 1758 ; a View of the Levant , particularly of Con- ftantinople , Syria , Ægypt , and Greece , by Charles Perry , M. D. London , 1743 ; and the Travels of Alexander Drummond , Esquire ...
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... Aleppo , would make one regret that no author , among the numerous defcribers of the Holy - Land , has given us fuch an hiftory of the weather of that country . It hurts one the more , as these obfervations might have been made without ...
... Aleppo , would make one regret that no author , among the numerous defcribers of the Holy - Land , has given us fuch an hiftory of the weather of that country . It hurts one the more , as these obfervations might have been made without ...
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... Aleppo ; and about Algiers ; and fo Jacobus de Vitriaco affures us3 it is in Judæa , for he observes that lightning and thunder are wont , in the Weftern countries , to be in the fummer , but happen in the Holy - Land in winter . That ...
... Aleppo ; and about Algiers ; and fo Jacobus de Vitriaco affures us3 it is in Judæa , for he observes that lightning and thunder are wont , in the Weftern countries , to be in the fummer , but happen in the Holy - Land in winter . That ...
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... Aleppo through the whole fummer , yet fometimes there is fuch a thing as a fmart thunder - fhower . So Dr. Ruffell tells us , that in the night betwixt the first and fecond of July , 1743 , fome fevere thunder - fhowers fell , but adds ...
... Aleppo through the whole fummer , yet fometimes there is fuch a thing as a fmart thunder - fhower . So Dr. Ruffell tells us , that in the night betwixt the first and fecond of July , 1743 , fome fevere thunder - fhowers fell , but adds ...
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