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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... live in more commodious countries , to endeavour to give an account of the weather which shall be philofophically complete . The flat - roof of any building that hath but one fpout for car- rying off the water , might be a measurer of ...
... live in more commodious countries , to endeavour to give an account of the weather which shall be philofophically complete . The flat - roof of any building that hath but one fpout for car- rying off the water , might be a measurer of ...
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... lives , for fo in his letter to Algafia ' he underftands , as to the literal fenfe , the direction of our Lord to his difciples to pray that their flight might not be in winter , the feverity of the cold being fuch as would not permit ...
... lives , for fo in his letter to Algafia ' he underftands , as to the literal fenfe , the direction of our Lord to his difciples to pray that their flight might not be in winter , the feverity of the cold being fuch as would not permit ...
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... live at the gardens in April and part of May . In the heat of fummer they dine at the gardens , instead of under the tent , that is , I fuppofe , once or twice a week they dine at the gardens , as once or twice a week they dine under a ...
... live at the gardens in April and part of May . In the heat of fummer they dine at the gardens , instead of under the tent , that is , I fuppofe , once or twice a week they dine at the gardens , as once or twice a week they dine under a ...
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... live thus , or the Patriarchs : there may be fomething in thofe obfervations , but no great matter . The true anfwer , I believe , is , that that discipline might appear fevere and dan- gerous to Englishmen , which was fafe to the ...
... live thus , or the Patriarchs : there may be fomething in thofe obfervations , but no great matter . The true anfwer , I believe , is , that that discipline might appear fevere and dan- gerous to Englishmen , which was fafe to the ...
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... live in Barbary , and other places , in the fame manner . And as the Kenites and Rechabites lived in Palæftine in tents , and pastured their cattle there without molefta- tion when the country was very populous , fo Maillet affures us ...
... live in Barbary , and other places , in the fame manner . And as the Kenites and Rechabites lived in Palæftine in tents , and pastured their cattle there without molefta- tion when the country was very populous , fo Maillet affures us ...
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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