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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Page iii
... most certainly , and the resemblance has been so ftriking , and the thing fo curious , that they could not in fome cases well avoid taking notice of it ; but what I mean is , that no one , that I know of , has fet himself purposely and ...
... most certainly , and the resemblance has been so ftriking , and the thing fo curious , that they could not in fome cases well avoid taking notice of it ; but what I mean is , that no one , that I know of , has fet himself purposely and ...
Page vi
... most of those made by Critics on the Greek Claffics , than of any great importance . There is a vast number of books of Travels , which might be read over in pursuing fuch a de- 2 fign fign as that I have been forming : it may vi PREFACE .
... most of those made by Critics on the Greek Claffics , than of any great importance . There is a vast number of books of Travels , which might be read over in pursuing fuch a de- 2 fign fign as that I have been forming : it may vi PREFACE .
Page vii
... most of them vifited these countries , and fome of them poffeffed places of great diftinction in the Eaft . Rauwolff , a German Phyfician , though he lived feveral generations after the writers in the Gesta Dei per Francos , is the next ...
... most of them vifited these countries , and fome of them poffeffed places of great diftinction in the Eaft . Rauwolff , a German Phyfician , though he lived feveral generations after the writers in the Gesta Dei per Francos , is the next ...
Page xv
... most proper way of forming these , and other Eastern names , into English words , which I by no means think myfelf qualified to do , and for that reason I generally , if not always , make ufe of those terms that the Author I laft cited ...
... most proper way of forming these , and other Eastern names , into English words , which I by no means think myfelf qualified to do , and for that reason I generally , if not always , make ufe of those terms that the Author I laft cited ...
Page xvi
... most readers will not exer- cife patience enough to make thefe difcoveries in their reading authors of this fort ; I have been led to imagine , that the publishing fome obferva- tions of this kind , and especially if formed into a ...
... most readers will not exer- cife patience enough to make thefe difcoveries in their reading authors of this fort ; I have been led to imagine , that the publishing fome obferva- tions of this kind , and especially if formed into a ...
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