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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... Jewish limits ; I would obferve that Reland affures us , on the au- thority of fome who had been in that coun- try , that the air and foil of the mountainous part of Judæa are much colder than of the fea - coaft , and the productions ...
... Jewish limits ; I would obferve that Reland affures us , on the au- thority of fome who had been in that coun- try , that the air and foil of the mountainous part of Judæa are much colder than of the fea - coaft , and the productions ...
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... Jewish summer forbids our admitting the interpretation the learned and ingenious Dr. Delany has given us of this verfe , in his hiftory of the life of David . He fuppofes the words , my moisture is turned into the drought of fummer ...
... Jewish summer forbids our admitting the interpretation the learned and ingenious Dr. Delany has given us of this verfe , in his hiftory of the life of David . He fuppofes the words , my moisture is turned into the drought of fummer ...
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... Jewish temple at Jerufalem , were fuch as have happened at other times , with- out any particular meaning , and yet , as they were then circumftanced , were an authentic at- teftation to the truth of christianity . It fhould not be ...
... Jewish temple at Jerufalem , were fuch as have happened at other times , with- out any particular meaning , and yet , as they were then circumftanced , were an authentic at- teftation to the truth of christianity . It fhould not be ...
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... Jewish country , and the difference defigned to be pointed out , was the neceffity the Ægyptians were under of watering their corn - lands in the fame manner , to prepare them for fowing ; whereas the lands of Ju- dæa are prepared by ...
... Jewish country , and the difference defigned to be pointed out , was the neceffity the Ægyptians were under of watering their corn - lands in the fame manner , to prepare them for fowing ; whereas the lands of Ju- dæa are prepared by ...
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... Jews certainly , whether they had , or had not , instances of that kind in their own country , were not unacquainted with the terrible effects of inundations , which fometimes deftructive as they are arife from fmall breaches , 2 Sam ...
... Jews certainly , whether they had , or had not , instances of that kind in their own country , were not unacquainted with the terrible effects of inundations , which fometimes deftructive as they are arife from fmall breaches , 2 Sam ...
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