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 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 60
Page 2
... rain fuf- ficiently accurate ; as the fetting down the times in which they fall , together with the di- rection of the wind , the confequences of its blowing from different quarters , and a few other things , which the fenfes might ...
... rain fuf- ficiently accurate ; as the fetting down the times in which they fall , together with the di- rection of the wind , the confequences of its blowing from different quarters , and a few other things , which the fenfes might ...
Page 5
... rain to fall in all 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 ...
... rain to fall in all 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 ...
Page 7
... rain fell there . Tacitus lived here in the Weft , and comparing , it may be imagined , a fummer in Judæa with what hap- pens in Germany and France , he calls it a country of little rain . $ 5 This reprefentation of a Jewish summer ...
... rain fell there . Tacitus lived here in the Weft , and comparing , it may be imagined , a fummer in Judæa with what hap- pens in Germany and France , he calls it a country of little rain . $ 5 This reprefentation of a Jewish summer ...
Page 8
... rain at Aleppo through the whole fummer , yet fometimes there is fuch a thing as a fmart thunder - fhower . So Dr. Ruffell tells us , that in the night betwixt the first and fecond of July , 1743 , fome fevere thunder - fhowers fell ...
... rain at Aleppo through the whole fummer , yet fometimes there is fuch a thing as a fmart thunder - fhower . So Dr. Ruffell tells us , that in the night betwixt the first and fecond of July , 1743 , fome fevere thunder - fhowers fell ...
Page 9
... rain of Samuel seem to have been in the day- time , and while Samuel and the Ifraelites continued together ... rains in thofe countries ufually fall in the night , as did those uncommon thunder - fhowers of July , 1743 ; OBSERVATION III ...
... rain of Samuel seem to have been in the day- time , and while Samuel and the Ifraelites continued together ... rains in thofe countries ufually fall in the night , as did those uncommon thunder - fhowers of July , 1743 ; OBSERVATION III ...
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