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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... Land : T HE defign of these papers is rather to illustrate the customs that are men- tioned , or alluded to , in the facred writings , than the references there to natural philofophy ; fome account , however , of the weather of this ...
... Land : T HE defign of these papers is rather to illustrate the customs that are men- tioned , or alluded to , in the facred writings , than the references there to natural philofophy ; fome account , however , of the weather of this ...
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... Land . Not to mention the ob- fervation of Dr. Shaw , who affirms that the country from Tripoly to Sidon is much colder than the reft of the coaft , farther North as well as farther South , and has a lefs regu- lar change of the feafons ...
... Land . Not to mention the ob- fervation of Dr. Shaw , who affirms that the country from Tripoly to Sidon is much colder than the reft of the coaft , farther North as well as farther South , and has a lefs regu- lar change of the feafons ...
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... Land in winter . That in the fummer it feldom or never rains there ; but in winter , though the returns of rain are not fo frequent , after they begin to fall they pour down , for three or four days and nights together , as vehemently ...
... Land in winter . That in the fummer it feldom or never rains there ; but in winter , though the returns of rain are not fo frequent , after they begin to fall they pour down , for three or four days and nights together , as vehemently ...
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... lands in the fame manner , to prepare them for fowing ; whereas the lands of Ju- dæa are prepared by the defcent of rain . Thefe lands of Ægypt , indeed , are watered by the overflowing of the Nile , and are by that fo faturated with ...
... lands in the fame manner , to prepare them for fowing ; whereas the lands of Ju- dæa are prepared by the defcent of rain . Thefe lands of Ægypt , indeed , are watered by the overflowing of the Nile , and are by that fo faturated with ...
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... lands : Maillet himself cele- brates those works of the ancient kings of Ægypt , by which they diftributed the waters of the Nile through their whole country , as the greatest , the moft magnificent , and the most admirable of all their ...
... lands : Maillet himself cele- brates those works of the ancient kings of Ægypt , by which they diftributed the waters of the Nile through their whole country , as the greatest , the moft magnificent , and the most admirable of all their ...
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