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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... lay before the Public a collection of re- marks of this kind , fuch as I have been able to draw together from thofe books which have fallen into my hands . This , I hope , may not be altogether unentertaining , nor in- X deed deed ...
... lay before the Public a collection of re- marks of this kind , fuch as I have been able to draw together from thofe books which have fallen into my hands . This , I hope , may not be altogether unentertaining , nor in- X deed deed ...
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... lay all night upon ( 6 66 my branch , my glory was freth in me . " Not in the days of his difgrace then , the days in which he was ftripped of his orna- ments , as an herb of its leaves and flowers in the winter , but like a plant in ...
... lay all night upon ( 6 66 my branch , my glory was freth in me . " Not in the days of his difgrace then , the days in which he was ftripped of his orna- ments , as an herb of its leaves and flowers in the winter , but like a plant in ...
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... laid above a day . That narciffufes are in flower during the whole of this weather , and hyacinths and violets at the latest appear before it is quite over . That as February advances , the fields which were partly green before , now by ...
... laid above a day . That narciffufes are in flower during the whole of this weather , and hyacinths and violets at the latest appear before it is quite over . That as February advances , the fields which were partly green before , now by ...
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... laid the foundation of his building . 6 Other writers have taken notice of the rockiness of this country , and its being fre- quently covered with a shallow coat of earth . It is more than poffible our Lord might have fome village in ...
... laid the foundation of his building . 6 Other writers have taken notice of the rockiness of this country , and its being fre- quently covered with a shallow coat of earth . It is more than poffible our Lord might have fome village in ...
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... lay the vale under water , " which occafions great rejoicings among the " Turks and Arabians , as being a certain prognoftic of a very plentiful year . " 46 OBSERVATION XII . By a paffage of la Roque ' it appears , that if the ufual ...
... lay the vale under water , " which occafions great rejoicings among the " Turks and Arabians , as being a certain prognoftic of a very plentiful year . " 46 OBSERVATION XII . By a paffage of la Roque ' it appears , that if the ufual ...
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