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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... David . All their fummers are dry , and the withered appearance of an Eastern fummer , in common , is doubtlefs what the Pfalmift refers to , without think- ing of any particular year of drought , Dr. Ruffell's account of a Syrian ...
... David . All their fummers are dry , and the withered appearance of an Eastern fummer , in common , is doubtlefs what the Pfalmift refers to , without think- ing of any particular year of drought , Dr. Ruffell's account of a Syrian ...
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... David . He fuppofes the words , my moisture is turned into the drought of fummer , fignify that the change was , as if he had been removed at once from the depth of winter , into Midfummer ; as if all the ftorms , and rain , and clouds ...
... David . He fuppofes the words , my moisture is turned into the drought of fummer , fignify that the change was , as if he had been removed at once from the depth of winter , into Midfummer ; as if all the ftorms , and rain , and clouds ...
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... David was acquainted with fuch fnow , he might well fay , " He giveth fnow like wool : " Certainly a flake of fnow as big as a walnut , would to a British eye at a diftance , appear more like a small lock of wool than what it really was ...
... David was acquainted with fuch fnow , he might well fay , " He giveth fnow like wool : " Certainly a flake of fnow as big as a walnut , would to a British eye at a diftance , appear more like a small lock of wool than what it really was ...
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... David , tells us , that the Rabbins fuppofe the descendents of Saul hanged from March , ( from the very 3 See Pococke's Def . of the East , V. 2. p . 61. 4 2 Sam . 21. 10 . J firft days of barley - harveft , ) to firft in the Holy ...
... David , tells us , that the Rabbins fuppofe the descendents of Saul hanged from March , ( from the very 3 See Pococke's Def . of the East , V. 2. p . 61. 4 2 Sam . 21. 10 . J firft days of barley - harveft , ) to firft in the Holy ...
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... David . And if it fhould be imagined that the flesh of Saul was confumed by fire , ( v . 12 , ) and fo the word bones came to be used in the account of their interment , can any reafon be affigned why we fhould not fuppofe thefe bodies ...
... David . And if it fhould be imagined that the flesh of Saul was confumed by fire , ( v . 12 , ) and fo the word bones came to be used in the account of their interment , can any reafon be affigned why we fhould not fuppofe thefe bodies ...
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