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 43
... fruit- " ful and plentiful year : the inhabitants " making , upon thefe occafions , the like re- joicings with the Egyptians upon the cutting " of the Nile , " p . 335. They are the fnow and the rains then of the beginning of Fe- bruary ...
... fruit- " ful and plentiful year : the inhabitants " making , upon thefe occafions , the like re- joicings with the Egyptians upon the cutting " of the Nile , " p . 335. They are the fnow and the rains then of the beginning of Fe- bruary ...
Page 53
... fruits and efculent herbs , and to deliver from the feverity of famine . Farther , I confefs , I do not fee any ne- ceffity of fuppofing the miracle ceafed the moment the rain defcended - the words might mean no more , than that the ...
... fruits and efculent herbs , and to deliver from the feverity of famine . Farther , I confefs , I do not fee any ne- ceffity of fuppofing the miracle ceafed the moment the rain defcended - the words might mean no more , than that the ...
Page 65
... fruit , in the heat of fummer that is , as these authors imagine ? It cannot be . The contrary , I make no doubt , is the true mean- ing of her words , though I do not know that any critic hath understood them fo , all acquiescing in ...
... fruit , in the heat of fummer that is , as these authors imagine ? It cannot be . The contrary , I make no doubt , is the true mean- ing of her words , though I do not know that any critic hath understood them fo , all acquiescing in ...
Page 66
... fruits ; for if the fouth wind blows , the exceffive heat will forbid his taking the air , and oblige him to fhut clofe the doors and windows of his apartments . OBSERVATION XX . Dr. Ruffell , in his description of the wea- ther at ...
... fruits ; for if the fouth wind blows , the exceffive heat will forbid his taking the air , and oblige him to fhut clofe the doors and windows of his apartments . OBSERVATION XX . Dr. Ruffell , in his description of the wea- ther at ...
Page 70
... fruits ripen at Aleppo , Jerufalem , and in Barbary , nearly at the fame time , it must have been the lat- ter end of July , or rather the beginning of August , that the Spies were fent out by Mofes to fearch the Promifed Land . For ...
... fruits ripen at Aleppo , Jerufalem , and in Barbary , nearly at the fame time , it must have been the lat- ter end of July , or rather the beginning of August , that the Spies were fent out by Mofes to fearch the Promifed Land . For ...
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