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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... months . If we know when the tour began , and that it took up nine years , we know what time it must have ended . The fecond tour must have commenced after the year 1711 , when the Czar Peter the Great was in fuch a difadvan- tageous ...
... months . If we know when the tour began , and that it took up nine years , we know what time it must have ended . The fecond tour must have commenced after the year 1711 , when the Czar Peter the Great was in fuch a difadvan- tageous ...
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... month of March . They then who would make their fervices of this kind quite fatisfactory , fhould furnish the learned world with obfervations on the weather , as it is at Jerufalem ; at Jericho ; at Gaza , or 6 ' De Bell , Jud . 1. 4 ...
... month of March . They then who would make their fervices of this kind quite fatisfactory , fhould furnish the learned world with obfervations on the weather , as it is at Jerufalem ; at Jericho ; at Gaza , or 6 ' De Bell , Jud . 1. 4 ...
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... months of the year ; but it is not fo in the Levant . Every one knows Ægypt has scarce any rain at all ; and Dr. Shaw affirms that it is as uncommon in moft parts of what they call at Algiers the Defert , which is the moft Southern part ...
... months of the year ; but it is not fo in the Levant . Every one knows Ægypt has scarce any rain at all ; and Dr. Shaw affirms that it is as uncommon in moft parts of what they call at Algiers the Defert , which is the moft Southern part ...
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... month of July ; but if it fhould be found to be otherwife , and that , though St. Jerome had never feen it , fuch a thing may now and then happen there , as it did at Aleppo while Dr. Ruffell refided in that city , the fact recorded 1 ...
... month of July ; but if it fhould be found to be otherwife , and that , though St. Jerome had never feen it , fuch a thing may now and then happen there , as it did at Aleppo while Dr. Ruffell refided in that city , the fact recorded 1 ...
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... months are indif- criminately more or lefs wet . This fufficiently appears by what I have cited out of Jaco- bus de ... month then , is often a rainy one . Ful- cherius Carnotenfis , who was in this journey , • Ruins of Palmyra , p . 37 ...
... months are indif- criminately more or lefs wet . This fufficiently appears by what I have cited out of Jaco- bus de ... month then , is often a rainy one . Ful- cherius Carnotenfis , who was in this journey , • Ruins of Palmyra , p . 37 ...
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