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 25
... described as fitting in his winter - houfe , in the ninth month ( which anfwers to the latter end of November and part of December ) with a fire burning upon the hearth before him , Jer . 36. 22 . This an- fwers Ruffell's account , who ...
... described as fitting in his winter - houfe , in the ninth month ( which anfwers to the latter end of November and part of December ) with a fire burning upon the hearth before him , Jer . 36. 22 . This an- fwers Ruffell's account , who ...
Page 57
... described as a vaft wafte ' . Ezekiel speaks of a whirlwind that came from the North , ch . i . 4 , but this was what appeared to him in vision , and therefore might not be according to the courfe of nature ; however hiftorians inform ...
... described as a vaft wafte ' . Ezekiel speaks of a whirlwind that came from the North , ch . i . 4 , but this was what appeared to him in vision , and therefore might not be according to the courfe of nature ; however hiftorians inform ...
Page 125
... for them in dividing their fubftance . * OBSERVATION XIX . The manner in which the Arabs harrafs the caravans of the Eaft , is described in the * P. 169 . fame Y fame page . He tells us there , that the in the Holy - Land . 125.
... for them in dividing their fubftance . * OBSERVATION XIX . The manner in which the Arabs harrafs the caravans of the Eaft , is described in the * P. 169 . fame Y fame page . He tells us there , that the in the Holy - Land . 125.
Page 224
... described as often in the vallies however : they are fo , Ezek . vii . 16. It should seem this is on account of the waters they find there , in which they de- light : fo Dr. Ruffell tells us , when pigeons were employed as posts , they ...
... described as often in the vallies however : they are fo , Ezek . vii . 16. It should seem this is on account of the waters they find there , in which they de- light : fo Dr. Ruffell tells us , when pigeons were employed as posts , they ...
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