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 xiv
... frequently converfing with fuch could not fail , affuredly , of furnishing the curious enquirer with many farther particulars , and the want of fuch an aid may be found but too fenfibly in the following papers ; there is , however , on ...
... frequently converfing with fuch could not fail , affuredly , of furnishing the curious enquirer with many farther particulars , and the want of fuch an aid may be found but too fenfibly in the following papers ; there is , however , on ...
Page xviii
... frequently tranflated them in a loofer manner than I have done fuch authors as had finished their papers , and published them to the world ; but I have been as careful as could to retain his fentiments with exactness . His obfervations ...
... frequently tranflated them in a loofer manner than I have done fuch authors as had finished their papers , and published them to the world ; but I have been as careful as could to retain his fentiments with exactness . His obfervations ...
Page xix
... frequently direct their difquifitions to the fame facred and elevated purpose ! The letters MS . and MSS . are well known to be ab- breviations of the words Manufcript and Manufcripts . My readers will eafily imagine , when they find ...
... frequently direct their difquifitions to the fame facred and elevated purpose ! The letters MS . and MSS . are well known to be ab- breviations of the words Manufcript and Manufcripts . My readers will eafily imagine , when they find ...
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... frequent , after they begin to fall they pour down , for three or four days and nights together , as vehemently as if they would drown the country . This is one of the most diftinct accounts I have any where met with of the weather of 3 ...
... frequent , after they begin to fall they pour down , for three or four days and nights together , as vehemently as if they would drown the country . This is one of the most diftinct accounts I have any where met with of the weather of 3 ...
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... as did those uncommon thunder - fhowers of July , 1743 ; OBSERVATION III . This drought in fummer occafions frequent waterings in Judæa , ? P. 148 . Dr. > Dr. Pococke , in his journey from Acre to in the Holy - Land .
... as did those uncommon thunder - fhowers of July , 1743 ; OBSERVATION III . This drought in fummer occafions frequent waterings in Judæa , ? P. 148 . Dr. > Dr. Pococke , in his journey from Acre to in the Holy - Land .
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