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 iii
... fome cases well avoid taking notice of it ; but what I mean is , that no one , that I know of , has fet himself ... fome light over particular paffages of Scripture , in the fame way , as Buchanan's relation of the manners of the ancient ...
... fome cases well avoid taking notice of it ; but what I mean is , that no one , that I know of , has fet himself ... fome light over particular paffages of Scripture , in the fame way , as Buchanan's relation of the manners of the ancient ...
Page iv
... fome circumstances recorded by Homer , whofe Iliad fpeaks of Greek and Afiatic heroes ; for there is a fameness in ... fome alte- rations . Yet there are many things which he has omitted , as well as fome that will not bear a close ...
... fome circumstances recorded by Homer , whofe Iliad fpeaks of Greek and Afiatic heroes ; for there is a fameness in ... fome alte- rations . Yet there are many things which he has omitted , as well as fome that will not bear a close ...
Page v
... fome that he has related , tended to illuftrate paffages of Scripture , which he had no particular occafion to confider . A ftander - by pays himself no great compliment , in fuppofing he has remarked fome things of this fort , not ...
... fome that he has related , tended to illuftrate paffages of Scripture , which he had no particular occafion to confider . A ftander - by pays himself no great compliment , in fuppofing he has remarked fome things of this fort , not ...
Page vii
... fome other papers , and two in the fecond , had most of them vifited these countries , and fome of them poffeffed places of great diftinction in the Eaft . Rauwolff , a German Phyfician , though he lived feveral generations after the ...
... fome other papers , and two in the fecond , had most of them vifited these countries , and fome of them poffeffed places of great diftinction in the Eaft . Rauwolff , a German Phyfician , though he lived feveral generations after the ...
Page xvii
... 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- lines of a new ...
... 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- lines of a new ...
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