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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... common way . · Dr. Shaw , however , has done to much of this kind , and fo happily illuftrated fuch a number of Scriptures , that in the following papers I fhall fuppofe all my readers are acquainted with his writings , and fhall ...
... common way . · Dr. Shaw , however , has done to much of this kind , and fo happily illuftrated fuch a number of Scriptures , that in the following papers I fhall fuppofe all my readers are acquainted with his writings , and fhall ...
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... common in writings of this kind , in the first perfon fingular . However we may , poffibly , pretty well fupply thefe omiffions , by laying circum- ftances together . When it is faid in the Preface , that this work had long been defired ...
... common in writings of this kind , in the first perfon fingular . However we may , poffibly , pretty well fupply thefe omiffions , by laying circum- ftances together . When it is faid in the Preface , that this work had long been defired ...
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... common for rain to fall in all months of the year ; but it is not fo in the Levant . Every one knows Ægypt has scarce any rain at all ; and Dr. Shaw affirms that it is as uncommon in moft parts of what they call at Algiers the Defert ...
... common for rain to fall in all months of the year ; but it is not fo in the Levant . Every one knows Ægypt has scarce any rain at all ; and Dr. Shaw affirms that it is as uncommon in moft parts of what they call at Algiers the Defert ...
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... 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 comment that can be ...
... 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 comment that can be ...
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... common , as Sir John Chardin , in his MS . note on this paffage , telleth us , that towards the Black - Sea , in Iberia and Armenia , and he should imagine therefore in fome other countries , the snow falls in flakes as big " afhes , he ...
... common , as Sir John Chardin , in his MS . note on this paffage , telleth us , that towards the Black - Sea , in Iberia and Armenia , and he should imagine therefore in fome other countries , the snow falls in flakes as big " afhes , he ...
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