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 17
... covering and overwhelming a perfon . This is to us Englishmen a curiofity belonging to Natural Hiftory ; and if David was acquainted with fuch fnow , he might well fay , " He giveth fnow like wool : " Certainly a flake of fnow as big as ...
... covering and overwhelming a perfon . This is to us Englishmen a curiofity belonging to Natural Hiftory ; and if David was acquainted with fuch fnow , he might well fay , " He giveth fnow like wool : " Certainly a flake of fnow as big as ...
Page 19
... covered with an agreeable verdure : and though the trees continue in a leafless flate till the end of this month , or beginning of March , yet the almond when latest being in bloffum before the middle of February , and quickly fucceeded ...
... covered with an agreeable verdure : and though the trees continue in a leafless flate till the end of this month , or beginning of March , yet the almond when latest being in bloffum before the middle of February , and quickly fucceeded ...
Page 30
... covered with them , which at Aleppo is not till after the middle of February , a fmall Crane's - bill appearing on the banks of the river there about the middle of Fe- bruary , quickly after which comes a profufion of flowers . And in ...
... covered with them , which at Aleppo is not till after the middle of February , a fmall Crane's - bill appearing on the banks of the river there about the middle of Fe- bruary , quickly after which comes a profufion of flowers . And in ...
Page 33
... covered frequently with a thin coat of earth : circumftances which com- plete the illustration of this allufion of our Lord , and teach us how to understand build- ing on the fand , or loofe foil ; and the wife man's digging down to the ...
... covered frequently with a thin coat of earth : circumftances which com- plete the illustration of this allufion of our Lord , and teach us how to understand build- ing on the fand , or loofe foil ; and the wife man's digging down to the ...
Page 80
... covered with habitations and tents , " with people and herds . And indeed it is " at 66 at this time of the year that the Bedouins " flock into Ægypt , from three or four hun- " dred leagues distance , in order to feed their " camels ...
... covered with habitations and tents , " with people and herds . And indeed it is " at 66 at this time of the year that the Bedouins " flock into Ægypt , from three or four hun- " dred leagues distance , in order to feed their " camels ...
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