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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... Eastern customs , not Eastern terms , and the man- ner of transfufing them with the greatest pro- priety into our language . The perufing of Travels is to most people a very delightful kind of reading : but as Gentle- men that publifh ...
... Eastern customs , not Eastern terms , and the man- ner of transfufing them with the greatest pro- priety into our language . The perufing of Travels is to most people a very delightful kind of reading : but as Gentle- men that publifh ...
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... Eastern people , and look upon this additional care as abfolutely neceffary to make a good Com- mentator . A deplorable want of which the ju- dicious reader will , with indignation , find in many Commentaries of name , and that where ...
... Eastern people , and look upon this additional care as abfolutely neceffary to make a good Com- mentator . A deplorable want of which the ju- dicious reader will , with indignation , find in many Commentaries of name , and that where ...
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... 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 fummer , which the reader will meet with by and by , is the most beautiful ...
... 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 fummer , which the reader will meet with by and by , is the most beautiful ...
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... ? A stranger to the eastern manage- ment would hardly know what to make of this indulgence . 7 See Patrick on the place . Shebiith . • P. 408 › In tit . ! OBSERT } 1 OBSERVATION IV . As the summers of the 12 Concerning the Weather.
... ? A stranger to the eastern manage- ment would hardly know what to make of this indulgence . 7 See Patrick on the place . Shebiith . • P. 408 › In tit . ! OBSERT } 1 OBSERVATION IV . As the summers of the 12 Concerning the Weather.
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... Eastern author , in an hymn compofed for the ufe of thofe warmer climates , should say of God , " He giveth his fnow like " wool , * he fcattereth the hoar - froft like . 3 2 3 Gefta Dei per Francos , p . 1130 . " afhes , 2 P. 307 . [ 3 ...
... Eastern author , in an hymn compofed for the ufe of thofe warmer climates , should say of God , " He giveth his fnow like " wool , * he fcattereth the hoar - froft like . 3 2 3 Gefta Dei per Francos , p . 1130 . " afhes , 2 P. 307 . [ 3 ...
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