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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... mean , in fpeaking this to fay , that no one of the numerous writers of Travels into the East ever observed the conformity between some of their prefent cuftoms , and certain correfpond- ing paffages of Scripture -- It has been done ...
... mean , in fpeaking this to fay , that no one of the numerous writers of Travels into the East ever observed the conformity between some of their prefent cuftoms , and certain correfpond- ing paffages of Scripture -- It has been done ...
Page xv
... mean the orthographical variations , which will be found in thefe papers , fuch as Bafhaw , Bafha , Baffa , Pafha ... means think myfelf qualified to do , and for that reason I generally , if not always , make ufe of those terms that ...
... mean the orthographical variations , which will be found in thefe papers , fuch as Bafhaw , Bafha , Baffa , Pafha ... means think myfelf qualified to do , and for that reason I generally , if not always , make ufe of those terms that ...
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