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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... Light altogether new ; Afcertaining the Meaning of feveral not determinable by the Me- thods commonly made use of by the Learned ; Proposing to Confideration probable Conjectures on others , different from what have been hitherto ...
... Light altogether new ; Afcertaining the Meaning of feveral not determinable by the Me- thods commonly made use of by the Learned ; Proposing to Confideration probable Conjectures on others , different from what have been hitherto ...
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... light . Rauwolff fet out from Augfburg , in his Travels for the Eaft , in May , 1573 ; his Itine- rary was , long after it was published , tranflated from the High - Dutch , and makes the greatest figure in the collection of curious ...
... light . Rauwolff fet out from Augfburg , in his Travels for the Eaft , in May , 1573 ; his Itine- rary was , long after it was published , tranflated from the High - Dutch , and makes the greatest figure in the collection of curious ...
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... light to obfcure paffages . The making ufe of that variety of Authors , which I have given an account of , has occa- fioned what may a little perplex some of read- my ers , and perhaps give difguft to more : I mean the orthographical ...
... light to obfcure paffages . The making ufe of that variety of Authors , which I have given an account of , has occa- fioned what may a little perplex some of read- my ers , and perhaps give difguft to more : I mean the orthographical ...
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