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. ... |
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3 But this ancient custom still continues in Palæstine , which , depopulated as it is
, probabiy has as many inhabitants in its towns , as it had in the davs of Abraham
. Nor is this peculiar to Palæstine ; there are many that live in Barbary , and ...
3 But this ancient custom still continues in Palæstine , which , depopulated as it is
, probabiy has as many inhabitants in its towns , as it had in the davs of Abraham
. Nor is this peculiar to Palæstine ; there are many that live in Barbary , and ...
Page 213
The Prophet then pronounces Woe to Zion , perhaps , as too ready to trust to the
number of its inhabitants and fojourners , which may be insinuated by this terin
which he uses , Ariel . And conformably to this interpretation , the threatening , in
...
The Prophet then pronounces Woe to Zion , perhaps , as too ready to trust to the
number of its inhabitants and fojourners , which may be insinuated by this terin
which he uses , Ariel . And conformably to this interpretation , the threatening , in
...
Page 214
This city , he tells us , he thought he might safely say , had not one thousand
families in it of constant inhabitants , and the buildings very mean and ordinary ' .
That four caravans arrive there every year , with great numbers of people in each
' ...
This city , he tells us , he thought he might safely say , had not one thousand
families in it of constant inhabitants , and the buildings very mean and ordinary ' .
That four caravans arrive there every year , with great numbers of people in each
' ...
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| Title | 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. ... Volume 1 of 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, Sir John Chardin |
| Author | Thomas Harmer |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1787 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 27 Jan 2011 |
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