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 iii
... kind have been published to the world , from whence fucceeding commentators have taken them , and placed them in their writings ; but modern books of Travels and Voyages , which , if carefully perufed , will afford as many obfervations ...
... kind have been published to the world , from whence fucceeding commentators have taken them , and placed them in their writings ; but modern books of Travels and Voyages , which , if carefully perufed , will afford as many obfervations ...
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... 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 after in Quarto , with fome alte- rations ...
... 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 after in Quarto , with fome alte- rations ...
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... kind are very expenfive , and , at the fame time , extremely numerous , and very many may want to ascertain the meaning of those places of Scripture they have illuftrated , who may have no opportunity of perufing those authors , or ...
... kind are very expenfive , and , at the fame time , extremely numerous , and very many may want to ascertain the meaning of those places of Scripture they have illuftrated , who may have no opportunity of perufing those authors , or ...
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... kind which I have examined , with any thing like a due atten- tion , in pursuing the defign which appears in thefe papers : here and there a quotation may be found from other books of no great importance ; and one or two from Mr ...
... kind which I have examined , with any thing like a due atten- tion , in pursuing the defign which appears in thefe papers : here and there a quotation may be found from other books of no great importance ; and one or two from Mr ...
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... kind of reading : but as Gentle- men that publifh accounts of this kind to the world , feldom think of illustrating the Scriptures ; as thofe that have made obfervations of this na- ture content themselves with propofing a very few ; as ...
... kind of reading : but as Gentle- men that publifh accounts of this kind to the world , feldom think of illustrating the Scriptures ; as thofe that have made obfervations of this na- ture content themselves with propofing a very few ; as ...
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