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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... Judæa . > 2 I will only take the liberty farther to re- mark , now I am fpeaking on this subject , and looking forward with expectation and hope to what may hereafter be done by the curious , that it may be agreeable not to forget ...
... Judæa . > 2 I will only take the liberty farther to re- mark , now I am fpeaking on this subject , and looking forward with expectation and hope to what may hereafter be done by the curious , that it may be agreeable not to forget ...
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... Judæa ' ; an account which will not appear hard to be believed to those who have read in Egmont and Heyman , that they found the air about Jericho extremely troublesome on account of its great heat , which fome years is quite ...
... Judæa ' ; an account which will not appear hard to be believed to those who have read in Egmont and Heyman , that they found the air about Jericho extremely troublesome on account of its great heat , which fome years is quite ...
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... Judæa , for he observes that lightning and thunder are wont , in the Weftern countries , to be in the fummer , but ... Judæa , Judæa , and it is the more valuable , as in the Holy - Land . 5.
... Judæa , for he observes that lightning and thunder are wont , in the Weftern countries , to be in the fummer , but ... Judæa , Judæa , and it is the more valuable , as in the Holy - Land . 5.
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... Judæa are ufually perfectly dry , Jofephus confirms this as to Galilee , de Bell . Jud , lib . iii . c . 7 . Bp . Patrick therefore , when he para- phrases those words of the Pfalmift , my moif- ture is turned into the drought of Jummer ...
... Judæa are ufually perfectly dry , Jofephus confirms this as to Galilee , de Bell . Jud , lib . iii . c . 7 . Bp . Patrick therefore , when he para- phrases those words of the Pfalmift , my moif- ture is turned into the drought of Jummer ...
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... Judæa with what hap- pens in Germany and France , he calls it a country of little rain . $ 5 This reprefentation of a Jewish summer forbids our admitting the interpretation the learned and ingenious Dr. Delany has given us of this verfe ...
... Judæa with what hap- pens in Germany and France , he calls it a country of little rain . $ 5 This reprefentation of a Jewish summer forbids our admitting the interpretation the learned and ingenious Dr. Delany has given us of this verfe ...
Common terms and phrases
according Ægypt affures againſt agreeable Aleppo alfo alſo ancient anfwer appears Arabs baked Barbary barley becauſe befides bread Chardin circumftance confequently confiderable corn cuſtom d'Arvieux defcribes deferts defigned diftinction doth Eaft Eaſt Eaſtern Egmont and Heyman Egypt exprefs facred faid fame fays fecond feems fent ferved feveral fhall fhould fide fignifies fince firft firſt fmall fome fomething fometimes fpeaks ftill fuch fufficient fummer fuppofe himſelf Holy-Land honey houfes houſes Ifrael Ifraelites illuftrate imagine Jerufalem Judæa Kenites kind Kings lefs Maillet manner mentioned Mofes moft moſt muft muſt obferved occafion paffage Perfia perfons places Pococke prefent Prophet publiſhed purpoſe rain reafon Ruffell ſeems Septuagint Shaw Sir John Chardin Solomon ſpeak ſuppoſed tells tents thefe themſelves theſe theſe countries Thevenot thing thofe thoſe tion tranflated travellers ufual underſtand underſtood uſed veffel wine wont word