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 v
... reasons , muft efcape the obfervation of those that read fuch a book in the common way . · Dr. Shaw , however , has done to much of this kind , and fo happily illuftrated fuch a number of Scriptures , that in the following papers I ...
... reasons , muft efcape the obfervation of those that read fuch a book in the common way . · Dr. Shaw , however , has done to much of this kind , and fo happily illuftrated fuch a number of Scriptures , that in the following papers I ...
Page xv
... reason I generally , if not always , make ufe of those terms that the Author I laft cited thought fit to employ , my fpeculations relating to Eastern customs , not Eastern terms , and the man- ner of transfufing them with the greatest ...
... reason I generally , if not always , make ufe of those terms that the Author I laft cited thought fit to employ , my fpeculations relating to Eastern customs , not Eastern terms , and the man- ner of transfufing them with the greatest ...
Page xviii
... reason I have frequently tranflated them in a loofer manner than I have done fuch authors as had finished their papers , and published them to the world ; but I have been as careful as could to retain his fentiments with exactness . His ...
... reason I have frequently tranflated them in a loofer manner than I have done fuch authors as had finished their papers , and published them to the world ; but I have been as careful as could to retain his fentiments with exactness . His ...
Page 74
... reason that in Perfia and Turkey they always make use of furred habits in the country , fuch only being Sufficient to refift the cold of the nights . I have travelled in Arabia , and in Mefopotamia ( the theatre of the adventures of ...
... reason that in Perfia and Turkey they always make use of furred habits in the country , fuch only being Sufficient to refift the cold of the nights . I have travelled in Arabia , and in Mefopotamia ( the theatre of the adventures of ...
Page 77
... reason to doubt , fince it is done by great numbers in that very country at this day . I will not fay this may be accounted for by obferving , that Canaan lies more to the fouth than the places of which Maundrell fpeaks ; or that they ...
... reason to doubt , fince it is done by great numbers in that very country at this day . I will not fay this may be accounted for by obferving , that Canaan lies more to the fouth than the places of which Maundrell fpeaks ; or that they ...
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