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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Page 9
... continued together , folemnizing Saul's in- auguration , which circumftance added con- fiderably to the energy of this event , Dr. Ruffell informing us that the rains in thofe countries ufually fall in the night , as did those uncommon ...
... continued together , folemnizing Saul's in- auguration , which circumftance added con- fiderably to the energy of this event , Dr. Ruffell informing us that the rains in thofe countries ufually fall in the night , as did those uncommon ...
Page 45
... that all those that attended the proceffion got back to the city with confiderable difficulty , and in Voy . de Syrie , & c . Tome 1. p . 8 , & c . disorder . XI . 66 66 diforder . He adds that the rain continued in the Holy - Land . 45.
... that all those that attended the proceffion got back to the city with confiderable difficulty , and in Voy . de Syrie , & c . Tome 1. p . 8 , & c . disorder . XI . 66 66 diforder . He adds that the rain continued in the Holy - Land . 45.
Page 46
... continued all that day , and part of the night , which pers fected the revival of the plants , and the fav- ing of the productions of the earth . La Roque is evidently embarraffed , with this fall of the rain just at the time the Mo ...
... continued all that day , and part of the night , which pers fected the revival of the plants , and the fav- ing of the productions of the earth . La Roque is evidently embarraffed , with this fall of the rain just at the time the Mo ...
Page 61
... continued some days . The niceness of Ruf- fell's obfervations will not allow us to doubt the truth of what he says of the direction of the hot winds at Aleppo ; nor can we doubt I 1 Ruffell , p . 14 , 15 . P. 152 . 2 Luke 12. 55 . 3 ...
... continued some days . The niceness of Ruf- fell's obfervations will not allow us to doubt the truth of what he says of the direction of the hot winds at Aleppo ; nor can we doubt I 1 Ruffell , p . 14 , 15 . P. 152 . 2 Luke 12. 55 . 3 ...
Page 66
... continued fo for a few days , and even thundered , yet no rain fell ' till the 11th , which fhews that his meaning was , that the lightning in the weft or fouth - west points , which is often followed with thun- der , is a fure fign of ...
... continued fo for a few days , and even thundered , yet no rain fell ' till the 11th , which fhews that his meaning was , that the lightning in the weft or fouth - west points , which is often followed with thun- der , is a fure fign of ...
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