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 iv
... given us the greatest entertainment of this kind , of any that I have met with , is the late Dr. Shaw , in that curious and ufeful book of Travels , which was firft pub- lifhed in Folio in the year 1738 , and reprinted nineteen years ...
... given us the greatest entertainment of this kind , of any that I have met with , is the late Dr. Shaw , in that curious and ufeful book of Travels , which was firft pub- lifhed in Folio in the year 1738 , and reprinted nineteen years ...
Page ix
... given divers extracts from it , which have been the longer , because it has never , fo far as I remember , appeared in English , as the others have . - The Journal from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai , and back again , tranflated from the ...
... given divers extracts from it , which have been the longer , because it has never , fo far as I remember , appeared in English , as the others have . - The Journal from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai , and back again , tranflated from the ...
Page x
... given us , through the whole work , in which they were at any of the places they have defcribed ; on the contrary , dates feem to be in- duftriously avoided , and inftead of a proper preface , giving an account of the authors , and of ...
... given us , through the whole work , in which they were at any of the places they have defcribed ; on the contrary , dates feem to be in- duftriously avoided , and inftead of a proper preface , giving an account of the authors , and of ...
Page xii
... given us in the whole book , and given , I believe , without re- flecting on it ; for a ftudied care to conceal the time of these Voyages , feems to run through both the Volumes . II As to the later English Travels , from which I have ...
... given us in the whole book , and given , I believe , without re- flecting on it ; for a ftudied care to conceal the time of these Voyages , feems to run through both the Volumes . II As to the later English Travels , from which I have ...
Page xiii
... given us a juftly - admired relation of his journey , from Aleppo to Jerufalem , at Eafter , A.D. 1697 ; and the fourth edition of Pitt's Account of the Religion and Man- ners of the Mahometans , printed in 1738. The History of the ...
... given us a juftly - admired relation of his journey , from Aleppo to Jerufalem , at Eafter , A.D. 1697 ; and the fourth edition of Pitt's Account of the Religion and Man- ners of the Mahometans , printed in 1738. The History of the ...
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