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 xi
... hand ; and on the other , that Antonio Magliabechi was about fixty , when they ( or one of them ) were at Flo- rence , who is known to have been born in Oc- tober , in the year 1633 ; we find there must have been a confiderable interval ...
... hand ; and on the other , that Antonio Magliabechi was about fixty , when they ( or one of them ) were at Flo- rence , who is known to have been born in Oc- tober , in the year 1633 ; we find there must have been a confiderable interval ...
Page xiv
... hand , one advantage that arifes from this want , and that is , my readers are more effectually fecured , than they might other- wife be , from the danger of being impofed upon by a mifunderstanding of facts , from an over - eager- nefs ...
... hand , one advantage that arifes from this want , and that is , my readers are more effectually fecured , than they might other- wife be , from the danger of being impofed upon by a mifunderstanding of facts , from an over - eager- nefs ...
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... I have been able to draw together from thofe books which have fallen into my hands . This , I hope , may not be altogether unentertaining , nor in- X deed deed wholly useless , though I am sensible it is Concerning the Weather.
... I have been able to draw together from thofe books which have fallen into my hands . This , I hope , may not be altogether unentertaining , nor in- X deed deed wholly useless , though I am sensible it is Concerning the Weather.
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... hand , midfummer there , though clear and unclouded , is no juft reprefenta- tion of a state of pleasantness : for this we have not only the decifive authority of natural historians , but even grammarians derive the 3 Jofephus de Bell ...
... hand , midfummer there , though clear and unclouded , is no juft reprefenta- tion of a state of pleasantness : for this we have not only the decifive authority of natural historians , but even grammarians derive the 3 Jofephus de Bell ...
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... hands , to be cafual and with- out defign , Bp . Warburton has fufficiently argued this point in his Julian , where he fuppofes those fiery eruptions , croffes , & c . which happened upon that emperor's attempt to build the Jewish ...
... hands , to be cafual and with- out defign , Bp . Warburton has fufficiently argued this point in his Julian , where he fuppofes those fiery eruptions , croffes , & c . which happened upon that emperor's attempt to build the Jewish ...
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