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 x
... first perfon fingular . However we may , poffibly , pretty well fupply thefe omiffions , by laying circum- ftances together . When it is faid in the Preface , that this work had long been defired by many learned and refpectable members ...
... first perfon fingular . However we may , poffibly , pretty well fupply thefe omiffions , by laying circum- ftances together . When it is faid in the Preface , that this work had long been defired by many learned and refpectable members ...
Page xi
... first of these tours , of nine years , and the fecond of four . When that visit to Magliabechi is fup- pofed to have been foon after the first tour was undertaken , and that the Good - Friday , juft before that vifit , fell on the ninth ...
... first of these tours , of nine years , and the fecond of four . When that visit to Magliabechi is fup- pofed to have been foon after the first tour was undertaken , and that the Good - Friday , juft before that vifit , fell on the ninth ...
Page xii
... first of the moon Manharem , 1033 " : for if we fuppofe an error only in the fecond figure , which certainly is wrong , fince the Turkish year 1033 answers the year of our Lord 1623 ; then 1033 is printed by mistake for 1133 , which ...
... first of the moon Manharem , 1033 " : for if we fuppofe an error only in the fecond figure , which certainly is wrong , fince the Turkish year 1033 answers the year of our Lord 1623 ; then 1033 is printed by mistake for 1133 , which ...
Page xiii
... first Vo- lume printed in 1743 , the fecond in 1758. Dr. Ruffell's Natural Hiftory of Aleppo , in Quarto , 17 ; and the Accounts that are prefixed , by a Gentleman of great ingenuity , to those copper- plates , which exhibit fo noble a ...
... first Vo- lume printed in 1743 , the fecond in 1758. Dr. Ruffell's Natural Hiftory of Aleppo , in Quarto , 17 ; and the Accounts that are prefixed , by a Gentleman of great ingenuity , to those copper- plates , which exhibit fo noble a ...
Page xvii
... first edition : fome of them derived from authors before confulted , upon an after - reviewing them ; but most of them deduced from books of Travels which I had not then seen . Some of thefe are mentioned in the Preface to the Out ...
... first edition : fome of them derived from authors before confulted , upon an after - reviewing them ; but most of them deduced from books of Travels which I had not then seen . Some of thefe are mentioned in the Preface to the Out ...
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