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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... attending explanations as might be requifite in another fituation ; and , at the fame time , I fhall purposely avoid every thing , that he has expressly remarked , of the nature of the en- fuing Obfervations . I fhall do the fame as to ...
... attending explanations as might be requifite in another fituation ; and , at the fame time , I fhall purposely avoid every thing , that he has expressly remarked , of the nature of the en- fuing Obfervations . I fhall do the fame as to ...
Page xx
... attended with beneficial confequences of a SACRED nature . Juftice , however , requires me to obferve , that Lieut . Niebuhr , the only furviving Danish Academician , who very laudably extended his cares beyond his proper department ...
... attended with beneficial confequences of a SACRED nature . Juftice , however , requires me to obferve , that Lieut . Niebuhr , the only furviving Danish Academician , who very laudably extended his cares beyond his proper department ...
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... attend the opening these wa- tering Canals in the East , and he supposes that Interpreters have not well understood that text , which he imagined re- ferred to thefe Brawlings . According to this , the sense of the Royal Preacher is ...
... attend the opening these wa- tering Canals in the East , and he supposes that Interpreters have not well understood that text , which he imagined re- ferred to thefe Brawlings . According to this , the sense of the Royal Preacher is ...
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... attend the rainy feafon ? " when , " as a polite writer ' expreffes it , " the heavens are filled with " clouds , when the earth fwims in rain , “ and all nature wears a low'ring counte- " nance . " A defcription which by its force ...
... attend the rainy feafon ? " when , " as a polite writer ' expreffes it , " the heavens are filled with " clouds , when the earth fwims in rain , “ and all nature wears a low'ring counte- " nance . " A defcription which by its force ...
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... attended King Baldwin Ift , in the mountainous districts of Arabia by the dead - fea , where they had to conflict with horrible hail , with ice , and unheard of fnow and rain . We have fometimes , it may be , wondered that an Eastern ...
... attended King Baldwin Ift , in the mountainous districts of Arabia by the dead - fea , where they had to conflict with horrible hail , with ice , and unheard of fnow and rain . We have fometimes , it may be , wondered that an Eastern ...
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