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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... honour on thefe Obferva- tions which I had no expectation of , and which , united with the kind reception these papers have met with at home , abundantly recompenfe me for all the pains and expenfe , the forming this Collection at firft ...
... honour on thefe Obferva- tions which I had no expectation of , and which , united with the kind reception these papers have met with at home , abundantly recompenfe me for all the pains and expenfe , the forming this Collection at firft ...
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... honour- ably of Ezekiel , and indeed affuming the ap- pearance of thofe Malachi mentions , in a paffage where the fame conjugation of the verb is ufed as in this of Ezekiel , " " Then 66 they that feared the Lord , Spake often one " to ...
... honour- ably of Ezekiel , and indeed affuming the ap- pearance of thofe Malachi mentions , in a paffage where the fame conjugation of the verb is ufed as in this of Ezekiel , " " Then 66 they that feared the Lord , Spake often one " to ...
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... honoured : " At last , faid he , " Heaven which beftoweth it's fa- vours when and how it pleafes , and who " causeth it to rain on the unjust and the infidel , permitted fo great an abundance " of rain to fall , & c . " But there ...
... honoured : " At last , faid he , " Heaven which beftoweth it's fa- vours when and how it pleafes , and who " causeth it to rain on the unjust and the infidel , permitted fo great an abundance " of rain to fall , & c . " But there ...
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... honour of a royal funeral , both necessary me- diums of appeafing the Almighty ? Is it not a much easier interpretation of this claufe- The rain that dropped on these bodies was a great mercy to the country , and the return of the rains ...
... honour of a royal funeral , both necessary me- diums of appeafing the Almighty ? Is it not a much easier interpretation of this claufe- The rain that dropped on these bodies was a great mercy to the country , and the return of the rains ...
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... honour is humility ; " which feem to be the fame thought in ge- neral with that of the text I am confidering : if then he thought fit to come to particulars , why is the height of the gate of an haughty perfon mentioned , rather than ...
... honour is humility ; " which feem to be the fame thought in ge- neral with that of the text I am confidering : if then he thought fit to come to particulars , why is the height of the gate of an haughty perfon mentioned , rather than ...
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