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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... cold , and heaviness of the rains , perifhed , adding , for it was winter , the month of December . That month then , is often a rainy one . Ful- cherius Carnotenfis , who was in this journey , • Ruins of Palmyra , p . 37 . • Under the ...
... cold , and heaviness of the rains , perifhed , adding , for it was winter , the month of December . That month then , is often a rainy one . Ful- cherius Carnotenfis , who was in this journey , • Ruins of Palmyra , p . 37 . • Under the ...
Page 14
... cold , that the elements feemed to confpire the ruin of fuch troops as were unfheltered , obliging thofe of Saladine to furrender them- felves . Judæa then is not one of those places where it only rains at the Equinoxes , these fevere ...
... cold , that the elements feemed to confpire the ruin of fuch troops as were unfheltered , obliging thofe of Saladine to furrender them- felves . Judæa then is not one of those places where it only rains at the Equinoxes , these fevere ...
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... cold and fevere , at leaft in fome years , and fome places . I Fulcherius Carnotenfis faw the cold prove deadly to many . Jacobus de Vitriaco in- formeth us that the fame thing happened to many of the poorer people , engaged in an ex ...
... cold and fevere , at leaft in fome years , and fome places . I Fulcherius Carnotenfis faw the cold prove deadly to many . Jacobus de Vitriaco in- formeth us that the fame thing happened to many of the poorer people , engaged in an ex ...
Page 17
... cold ? " Pf . cxlvii . 16 , 17. The preceding citations may remove that wonder . But how do these accounts agree ... cold and fnow , " I will buy no wood , and yet be warmer , [ than you at Rome , ] whether fleeping or waking . At least ...
... cold ? " Pf . cxlvii . 16 , 17. The preceding citations may remove that wonder . But how do these accounts agree ... cold and fnow , " I will buy no wood , and yet be warmer , [ than you at Rome , ] whether fleeping or waking . At least ...
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... cold climate ; however that in the depth of winter , when the fun is out , and there is no wind , it is warm , nay fonetimes almoft hot , in the open air . That in the thirteen years that he refided there , the ice was not above three ...
... cold climate ; however that in the depth of winter , when the fun is out , and there is no wind , it is warm , nay fonetimes almoft hot , in the open air . That in the thirteen years that he refided there , the ice was not above three ...
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