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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... Inhabitants , & c . V. Their Manner of Travelling . > THE THIRD EDITION , Corrected with Care , and enlarged with many new Obfervations : Numbers of them taken from fome MS . Papers of the celebrated SIR JOHN CHAR DI N. t Impellimur ...
... Inhabitants , & c . V. Their Manner of Travelling . > THE THIRD EDITION , Corrected with Care , and enlarged with many new Obfervations : Numbers of them taken from fome MS . Papers of the celebrated SIR JOHN CHAR DI N. t Impellimur ...
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... , may pour fome light over particular paffages of Scripture , in the fame way , as Buchanan's relation of the manners of the ancient A 2 ビ ancient inhabitants of Scotland may illustrate fome circumstances recorded by.
... , may pour fome light over particular paffages of Scripture , in the fame way , as Buchanan's relation of the manners of the ancient A 2 ビ ancient inhabitants of Scotland may illustrate fome circumstances recorded by.
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In Two Volumes. ... Thomas Harmer. ancient inhabitants of Scotland may illustrate fome circumstances recorded by Homer , whofe Iliad fpeaks of Greek and Afiatic heroes ; for there is a fameness in human nature every where , under the ...
In Two Volumes. ... Thomas Harmer. ancient inhabitants of Scotland may illustrate fome circumstances recorded by Homer , whofe Iliad fpeaks of Greek and Afiatic heroes ; for there is a fameness in human nature every where , under the ...
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... 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 that fill their refervoirs of water ...
... 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 that fill their refervoirs of water ...
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... inhabitants must have quitted the ifland , which he tells us they did , but almost every vegetable must have perifhed . [ This fufpenfion of rain , in the time of Elijah , was for three years and fix months , Egmont or Heyman , v . 1. p ...
... inhabitants must have quitted the ifland , which he tells us they did , but almost every vegetable must have perifhed . [ This fufpenfion of rain , in the time of Elijah , was for three years and fix months , Egmont or Heyman , v . 1. p ...
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