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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... nights together , as vehemently as if they would drown the country . This is one of the most diftinct accounts I have any where met with of the weather of 3 Vide Gefta Dei per 2 Shaw . * See Ruffell . Francos , v . 1. p . 1097 , 1098 ...
... nights together , as vehemently as if they would drown the country . This is one of the most diftinct accounts I have any where met with of the weather of 3 Vide Gefta Dei per 2 Shaw . * See Ruffell . Francos , v . 1. p . 1097 , 1098 ...
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... night betwixt the first and fecond of July , 1743 , fome fevere thunder - fhowers fell , but adds that it was a thing very extraordinary at that feafon . Poffibly it may be more uncommon ftill at Jerufalem , for St. Jerome , who lived ...
... night betwixt the first and fecond of July , 1743 , fome fevere thunder - fhowers fell , but adds that it was a thing very extraordinary at that feafon . Poffibly it may be more uncommon ftill at Jerufalem , for St. Jerome , who lived ...
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... night , as did those uncommon thunder - fhowers of July , 1743 ; OBSERVATION III . This drought in fummer occafions frequent waterings in Judæa , ? P. 148 . Dr. > Dr. Pococke , in his journey from Acre to in the Holy - Land .
... night , as did those uncommon thunder - fhowers of July , 1743 ; OBSERVATION III . This drought in fummer occafions frequent waterings in Judæa , ? P. 148 . Dr. > Dr. Pococke , in his journey from Acre to in the Holy - Land .
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... night upon ( 6 66 my branch , my glory was freth in me . " Not in the days of his difgrace then , the days in which he was ftripped of his orna- ments , as an herb of its leaves and flowers in the winter , but like a plant in the latter ...
... night upon ( 6 66 my branch , my glory was freth in me . " Not in the days of his difgrace then , the days in which he was ftripped of his orna- ments , as an herb of its leaves and flowers in the winter , but like a plant in the latter ...
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... night of the 8th of May the Sheik of Sephoury , [ a place in Galilee , ] made them a fire , in a ruined little building , and fent them boiled milk , eggs , and coffee : the fire therefore was not defigned for the preparing their • V. 2 ...
... night of the 8th of May the Sheik of Sephoury , [ a place in Galilee , ] made them a fire , in a ruined little building , and fent them boiled milk , eggs , and coffee : the fire therefore was not defigned for the preparing their • V. 2 ...
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