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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... customs , not Eastern terms , and the man- ner of transfufing them with the greatest pro- priety into our language . The perufing of Travels is to most people a very delightful kind of reading : but as Gentle- men that publifh accounts ...
... customs , not Eastern terms , and the man- ner of transfufing them with the greatest pro- priety into our language . The perufing of Travels is to most people a very delightful kind of reading : but as Gentle- men that publifh accounts ...
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... customs of the Eastern people , and look upon this additional care as abfolutely neceffary to make a good Com- mentator . A deplorable want of which the ju- dicious reader will , with indignation , find in many Commentaries of name ...
... customs of the Eastern people , and look upon this additional care as abfolutely neceffary to make a good Com- mentator . A deplorable want of which the ju- dicious reader will , with indignation , find in many Commentaries of name ...
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... customs that are men- tioned , or alluded to , in the facred writings , than the references there to natural philofophy ; fome account , however , of the weather of this country will , I imagine , be agreeable , fince the references to ...
... customs that are men- tioned , or alluded to , in the facred writings , than the references there to natural philofophy ; fome account , however , of the weather of this country will , I imagine , be agreeable , fince the references to ...
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... customs , under the gate - way of his houfe , when he made him this vifit on the 29th or 30th of December 3 . The explanation of thofe commentators then must appear fomething like imperti- nence , who make their talking of Ezekiel by ...
... customs , under the gate - way of his houfe , when he made him this vifit on the 29th or 30th of December 3 . The explanation of thofe commentators then must appear fomething like imperti- nence , who make their talking of Ezekiel by ...
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... custom of that nation , even during the win- ter , although poffeft of fundry convenient houfes . I do not know that any have made this account of the Patriarchs living in tents , an objection to the Old Teftament hiftory ; but had not ...
... custom of that nation , even during the win- ter , although poffeft of fundry convenient houfes . I do not know that any have made this account of the Patriarchs living in tents , an objection to the Old Teftament hiftory ; but had not ...
Common terms and phrases
according Ægypt affures againſt agreeable Aleppo alfo alſo ancient anfwer appears Arabs baked Barbary barley becauſe befides bread Chardin circumftance confequently confiderable corn cuſtom d'Arvieux defcribes deferts defigned diftinction doth Eaft Eaſt Eaſtern Egmont and Heyman Egypt exprefs facred faid fame fays fecond feems fent ferved feveral fhall fhould fide fignifies fince firft firſt fmall fome fomething fometimes fpeaks ftill fuch fufficient fummer fuppofe himſelf Holy-Land honey houfes houſes Ifrael Ifraelites illuftrate imagine Jerufalem Judæa Kenites kind Kings lefs Maillet manner mentioned Mofes moft moſt muft muſt obferved occafion paffage Perfia perfons places Pococke prefent Prophet publiſhed purpoſe rain reafon Ruffell ſeems Septuagint Shaw Sir John Chardin Solomon ſpeak ſuppoſed tells tents thefe themſelves theſe theſe countries Thevenot thing thofe thoſe tion tranflated travellers ufual underſtand underſtood uſed veffel wine wont word