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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... readers are acquainted with his writings , and fhall therefore often refer to him , without fuch attending explanations as might be requifite in another fituation ; and , at the fame time , I fhall purposely avoid every thing , that he ...
... readers are acquainted with his writings , and fhall therefore often refer to him , without fuch attending explanations as might be requifite in another fituation ; and , at the fame time , I fhall purposely avoid every thing , that he ...
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... readers have not been made by the writers I have used , they only accidentally mention the cir- cumftances from whence I have deduced them ; nor has any other author propofed the fame thoughts to the world , fo far as I recollect - no ...
... readers have not been made by the writers I have used , they only accidentally mention the cir- cumftances from whence I have deduced them ; nor has any other author propofed the fame thoughts to the world , fo far as I recollect - no ...
Page vii
... reader will fee might have been applied to the fame use : but nei- ther did Rauwolff put them to that ufe ; nor have any of his numerous readers done it , that I know of . For this reafon they have not been taken any notice of by ...
... reader will fee might have been applied to the fame use : but nei- ther did Rauwolff put them to that ufe ; nor have any of his numerous readers done it , that I know of . For this reafon they have not been taken any notice of by ...
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... reader this notice . - Thevenot , published at London in English , 1687. - Sir John Chardin , London , 1686 . -The Voyage dans la Palestine , fait par ordre du Roi Louis XIV , taken from the papers of Mons . d'Arvieux , who was the ...
... reader this notice . - Thevenot , published at London in English , 1687. - Sir John Chardin , London , 1686 . -The Voyage dans la Palestine , fait par ordre du Roi Louis XIV , taken from the papers of Mons . d'Arvieux , who was the ...
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... reader will not find many extracts from this work ; not however because I apprehend it has little value , for these Travels are juftly extremely celebrated , but merely because they happen not to contain many materials proper for me ...
... reader will not find many extracts from this work ; not however because I apprehend it has little value , for these Travels are juftly extremely celebrated , but merely because they happen not to contain many materials proper for me ...
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