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 vii
... give fome account of those I have run over , leaving it to others , if they think fit , to examine those that have not fallen in my way . The earliest writers of this fort , which have furnished me with materials , are thofe contained ...
... give fome account of those I have run over , leaving it to others , if they think fit , to examine those that have not fallen in my way . The earliest writers of this fort , which have furnished me with materials , are thofe contained ...
Page viii
... give my reader this notice . - Thevenot , published at London in English , 1687. - Sir John Chardin , London , 1686 . -The Voyage dans la Palestine , fait par ordre du Roi Louis XIV , taken from the papers of Mons . d'Arvieux , who was ...
... give my reader this notice . - Thevenot , published at London in English , 1687. - Sir John Chardin , London , 1686 . -The Voyage dans la Palestine , fait par ordre du Roi Louis XIV , taken from the papers of Mons . d'Arvieux , who was ...
Page xv
... give difguft to more : I mean the orthographical variations , which will be found in thefe papers , fuch as Bafhaw , Bafha , Baffa , Pafha , Bassa , Pacha , which are different ways of fpelling the title of a great Eaftern Officer ...
... give difguft to more : I mean the orthographical variations , which will be found in thefe papers , fuch as Bafhaw , Bafha , Baffa , Pafha , Bassa , Pacha , which are different ways of fpelling the title of a great Eaftern Officer ...
Page xviii
... give a new turn to the paf- fages of Scripture which he is endeavouring to elucidate ; but oftener farther illuftrate and confirm the explanations that are to be met with in other writers , and not unfre- quently thofe formerly ...
... give a new turn to the paf- fages of Scripture which he is endeavouring to elucidate ; but oftener farther illuftrate and confirm the explanations that are to be met with in other writers , and not unfre- quently thofe formerly ...
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... give an account of the weather which shall be philofophically complete . The flat - roof of any building that hath but one fpout for car- rying off the water , might be a measurer of the different quantities of the fallen rain fuf ...
... give an account of the weather which shall be philofophically complete . The flat - roof of any building that hath but one fpout for car- rying off the water , might be a measurer of the different quantities of the fallen rain fuf ...
Common terms and phrases
according Ægypt affures againſt agreeable Aleppo alfo alſo ancient anfwer appears Arabs baked Barbary barley becauſe befides bread Chardin circumftance confequently confiderable corn cuſtom d'Arvieux defcribes deferts defigned diftinction doth Eaft Eaſt Eaſtern Egmont and Heyman Egypt exprefs facred faid fame fays fecond feems fent ferved feveral fhall fhould fide fignifies fince firft firſt fmall fome fomething fometimes fpeaks ftill fuch fufficient fummer fuppofe himſelf Holy-Land honey houfes houſes Ifrael Ifraelites illuftrate imagine Jerufalem Judæa Kenites kind Kings lefs Maillet manner mentioned Mofes moft moſt muft muſt obferved occafion paffage Perfia perfons places Pococke prefent Prophet publiſhed purpoſe rain reafon Ruffell ſeems Septuagint Shaw Sir John Chardin Solomon ſpeak ſuppoſed tells tents thefe themſelves theſe theſe countries Thevenot thing thofe thoſe tion tranflated travellers ufual underſtand underſtood uſed veffel wine wont word