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 10
... prepare them for fowing ; whereas the lands of Ju- dæa are prepared by the defcent of rain . Thefe lands of Ægypt , indeed , are watered by the overflowing of the Nile , and are by that fo faturated with moisture , that Maillet affures ...
... prepare them for fowing ; whereas the lands of Ju- dæa are prepared by the defcent of rain . Thefe lands of Ægypt , indeed , are watered by the overflowing of the Nile , and are by that fo faturated with moisture , that Maillet affures ...
Page 12
... prepared for paving and lin- ing them , in order to water it , which labours had been so bitter to them in Ægypt . Exod . i . 14. favours this account : hard bondage in mortar and brick is joined there with other fervices of the field ...
... prepared for paving and lin- ing them , in order to water it , which labours had been so bitter to them in Ægypt . Exod . i . 14. favours this account : hard bondage in mortar and brick is joined there with other fervices of the field ...
Page 25
... 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. p . 5 . 2.P. 62 . food , food , but for the warming them . No won in the Holy - Land . 25.
... 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. p . 5 . 2.P. 62 . food , food , but for the warming them . No won in the Holy - Land . 25.
Page 126
... Prepared as the Arabs are for speedy flight , a quick motion is very deftructive to the young of their flocks . A paffage of the fame part of that MS . proves this , and at the fame time fhews the energy of those words of Jacob's ...
... Prepared as the Arabs are for speedy flight , a quick motion is very deftructive to the young of their flocks . A paffage of the fame part of that MS . proves this , and at the fame time fhews the energy of those words of Jacob's ...
Page 148
... prepared for the reception of the company ; which by the va- riety of their colours , and the peculiar manner in which they were pitched , made a moft agree- able appearances . I should not have made this one of my Ob- fervations , had ...
... prepared for the reception of the company ; which by the va- riety of their colours , and the peculiar manner in which they were pitched , made a moft agree- able appearances . I should not have made this one of my Ob- fervations , had ...
Common terms and phrases
according Ægypt affures againſt agreeable Aleppo alfo alſo ancient anfwer appears Arabs baked Barbary barley becauſe befides bread Chardin circumftance confequently confiderable corn cuſtom d'Arvieux defcribes deferts defigned diftinction doth Eaft Eaſt Eaſtern Egmont and Heyman Egypt exprefs facred faid fame fays fecond feems fent ferved feveral fhall fhould fide fignifies fince firft firſt fmall fome fomething fometimes fpeaks ftill fuch fufficient fummer fuppofe himſelf Holy-Land honey houfes houſes Ifrael Ifraelites illuftrate imagine Jerufalem Judæa Kenites kind Kings lefs Maillet manner mentioned Mofes moft moſt muft muſt obferved occafion paffage Perfia perfons places Pococke prefent Prophet publiſhed purpoſe rain reafon Ruffell ſeems Septuagint Shaw Sir John Chardin Solomon ſpeak ſuppoſed tells tents thefe themſelves theſe theſe countries Thevenot thing thofe thoſe tion tranflated travellers ufual underſtand underſtood uſed veffel wine wont word