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 iv
... extremely ftruck with . The Traveller that has given us the greatest entertainment of this kind , of any that I have met with , is the late Dr. Shaw , in that curious and ufeful book of Travels , which was firft pub- lifhed in Folio in ...
... extremely ftruck with . The Traveller that has given us the greatest entertainment of this kind , of any that I have met with , is the late Dr. Shaw , in that curious and ufeful book of Travels , which was firft pub- lifhed in Folio in ...
Page vi
... extremely numerous , and very many may want to ascertain the meaning of those places of Scripture they have illuftrated , who may have no opportunity of perufing those authors , or leifure to collect together things that are fo thinly ...
... extremely numerous , and very many may want to ascertain the meaning of those places of Scripture they have illuftrated , who may have no opportunity of perufing those authors , or leifure to collect together things that are fo thinly ...
Page ix
... extremely celebrated , but merely because they happen not to contain many materials proper for me . To these are to be added Egmont's and Hey- man's Travels , through part of Europe , -Syria , Palaeftine , Egypt , and Mount Sinai , & c ...
... extremely celebrated , but merely because they happen not to contain many materials proper for me . To these are to be added Egmont's and Hey- man's Travels , through part of Europe , -Syria , Palaeftine , Egypt , and Mount Sinai , & c ...
Page xviii
... nuscripts . This favour , which I fhould in any circum- ftance have confidered as very great , was extremely en- hanced , by the speedy and very complaifant manner in which which he conducted this affair ; but I am not xviii ADVERTISEMENT .
... nuscripts . This favour , which I fhould in any circum- ftance have confidered as very great , was extremely en- hanced , by the speedy and very complaifant manner in which which he conducted this affair ; but I am not xviii ADVERTISEMENT .
Page xx
... extremely indebted to the late King of Denmark , for his readiness to gratify the curious Michaelis , by fending a number of Aca- demicians into the Eaft for this very purpose : but the effort has not had all the fuccefs that could be ...
... extremely indebted to the late King of Denmark , for his readiness to gratify the curious Michaelis , by fending a number of Aca- demicians into the Eaft for this very purpose : but the effort has not had all the fuccefs that could be ...
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