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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... recorded in the Bible , may pour fome light over particular paffages of Scripture , in the fame way , as Buchanan's relation of the manners of the ancient A 2 ビ ancient inhabitants of Scotland may illustrate fome circumstances recorded by.
... recorded in the Bible , may pour fome light over particular paffages of Scripture , in the fame way , as Buchanan's relation of the manners of the ancient A 2 ビ ancient inhabitants of Scotland may illustrate fome circumstances recorded by.
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... particular points , it is no wonder that he did not obferve that many things that he faw , and fome that he has related , tended to illuftrate paffages of Scripture , which he had no particular occafion to confider . A ftander - by pays ...
... particular points , it is no wonder that he did not obferve that many things that he faw , and fome that he has related , tended to illuftrate paffages of Scripture , which he had no particular occafion to confider . A ftander - by pays ...
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... particular views in involving his account in all this con- fufion ; but as the perplexity was very difagree- able to me , I have been ready to imagine my reader , if ever he fhould perufe thofe Travels , will not be displeased with this ...
... particular views in involving his account in all this con- fufion ; but as the perplexity was very difagree- able to me , I have been ready to imagine my reader , if ever he fhould perufe thofe Travels , will not be displeased with this ...
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... Sir John Chardin , who refided long in the Eaft , was a very curious Obferver , and paid a particular attention to fuch matters as might ferve to illuftrate paffages VOL . I. 3 of ་ of Holy Writ ; which led him to make [ xvii ]
... Sir John Chardin , who refided long in the Eaft , was a very curious Obferver , and paid a particular attention to fuch matters as might ferve to illuftrate paffages VOL . I. 3 of ་ of Holy Writ ; which led him to make [ xvii ]
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... particular description of it is any where , that I know of , to be met with . The accurate account that Dr. Ruffell hath given us of the weather at Aleppo , would make one regret that no author , among the numerous defcribers of the ...
... particular description of it is any where , that I know of , to be met with . The accurate account that Dr. Ruffell hath given us of the weather at Aleppo , would make one regret that no author , among the numerous defcribers of the ...
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