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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... perhaps , more than is common in writings of this kind , in the first perfon fingular . However we may , poffibly , pretty well fupply thefe omiffions , by laying circum- ftances together . When it is faid in the Preface , that this ...
... perhaps , more than is common in writings of this kind , in the first perfon fingular . However we may , poffibly , pretty well fupply thefe omiffions , by laying circum- ftances together . When it is faid in the Preface , that this ...
Page xv
... perhaps give difguft to more : I mean the orthographical variations , which will be found in thefe papers , fuch as Bafhaw , Bafha , Baffa , Pafha , Bassa , Pacha , which are different ways of fpelling the title of a great Eaftern ...
... perhaps give difguft to more : I mean the orthographical variations , which will be found in thefe papers , fuch as Bafhaw , Bafha , Baffa , Pafha , Bassa , Pacha , which are different ways of fpelling the title of a great Eaftern ...
Page xix
... perhaps be in- clined to be fomewhat uneafy with fo many additions ; but those that are of a benevolent spirit will be willing , I per- fuade myself , to forgive my endeavouring farther to illuftrate these matters , referred to by the ...
... perhaps be in- clined to be fomewhat uneafy with fo many additions ; but those that are of a benevolent spirit will be willing , I per- fuade myself , to forgive my endeavouring farther to illuftrate these matters , referred to by the ...
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... perhaps , the Royal or the Antiquarian Society may procure thefe obfervations to be made ; or even fome private gentleman , whofe curiofity has a de- vout turn in the mean time . I would beg leave to lay before the Public a collection ...
... perhaps , the Royal or the Antiquarian Society may procure thefe obfervations to be made ; or even fome private gentleman , whofe curiofity has a de- vout turn in the mean time . I would beg leave to lay before the Public a collection ...
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... perhaps the end of June or be- ginning of July ; for he doth not mention the time exact- ly . It ought not to be paffed over in filence , " fays this writer , Gefta Dei & c . p . 1028 , " that the Heat at that " time was fo unusually ...
... perhaps the end of June or be- ginning of July ; for he doth not mention the time exact- ly . It ought not to be paffed over in filence , " fays this writer , Gefta Dei & c . p . 1028 , " that the Heat at that " time was fo unusually ...
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