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 29
... last clause will not be explanatory of the firft , and fignify that the moist part of the year was entirely paft , along with which , Dr. Ruffell affures us , all pleafantnefs withdraws at Aleppo ; but the words will import , the ...
... last clause will not be explanatory of the firft , and fignify that the moist part of the year was entirely paft , along with which , Dr. Ruffell affures us , all pleafantnefs withdraws at Aleppo ; but the words will import , the ...
Page 46
... 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 certainly was no ...
... 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 certainly was no ...
Page 63
... quently difagreeable . * See Shaw and Maillet in the pages referred to under the last Obfervations , and Egmont and Heyman , v . 2. p . 62 . What 2 . • What a different interpretation from that of in the Holy - Land . 63.
... quently difagreeable . * See Shaw and Maillet in the pages referred to under the last Obfervations , and Egmont and Heyman , v . 2. p . 62 . What 2 . • What a different interpretation from that of in the Holy - Land . 63.
Page 116
... last citation from those Travels . a P. 169 . And such a clan , according to him there , poffeffes frequently as large a number of cattle as Job was mafter of . he he diftreffed Ifrael , chofe to continue in peace with 116 Of the living ...
... last citation from those Travels . a P. 169 . And such a clan , according to him there , poffeffes frequently as large a number of cattle as Job was mafter of . he he diftreffed Ifrael , chofe to continue in peace with 116 Of the living ...
Page 173
... last Obfervation , that Solomon represents an houfe as fome- times divided between a number of families , anciently , in Judæa , as it often is amongst us ; fince he gives us to understand , that in di- viding the apartments of an house ...
... last Obfervation , that Solomon represents an houfe as fome- times divided between a number of families , anciently , in Judæa , as it often is amongst us ; fince he gives us to understand , that in di- viding the apartments of an house ...
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according Ægypt affures againſt agreeable Aleppo alfo alſo ancient anfwer appears Arabs baked Barbary barley becauſe befides bread Chardin circumftance confequently confiderable corn cuſtom d'Arvieux defcribes deferts defigned diftinction doth Eaft Eaſt Eaſtern Egmont and Heyman Egypt exprefs facred faid fame fays fecond feems fent ferved feveral fhall fhould fide fignifies fince firft firſt fmall fome fomething fometimes fpeaks ftill fuch fufficient fummer fuppofe himſelf Holy-Land honey houfes houſes Ifrael Ifraelites illuftrate imagine Jerufalem Judæa Kenites kind Kings lefs Maillet manner mentioned Mofes moft moſt muft muſt obferved occafion paffage Perfia perfons places Pococke prefent Prophet publiſhed purpoſe rain reafon Ruffell ſeems Septuagint Shaw Sir John Chardin Solomon ſpeak ſuppoſed tells tents thefe themſelves theſe theſe countries Thevenot thing thofe thoſe tion tranflated travellers ufual underſtand underſtood uſed veffel wine wont word