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 iii
... remark these re- femblances : an infinite number almoft , of very amusing and inftructive particulars are taken no notice of ; and thofe few that are mentioned are , in a manner , loft amidst a crowd of other matters . Accounts of ...
... remark these re- femblances : an infinite number almoft , of very amusing and inftructive particulars are taken no notice of ; and thofe few that are mentioned are , in a manner , loft amidst a crowd of other matters . Accounts of ...
Page v
... remarked fome things of this fort , not altogether unworthy of notice , which the Doctor is filent about : for a much lefs difcerning eye than that of fuch an au- thor , that fets itself purpofely , and repeatedly , to compare every ...
... remarked fome things of this fort , not altogether unworthy of notice , which the Doctor is filent about : for a much lefs difcerning eye than that of fuch an au- thor , that fets itself purpofely , and repeatedly , to compare every ...
Page vii
... remarks ' ; but befides thefe , he has men- tioned other matters , which my 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 ...
... remarks ' ; but befides thefe , he has men- tioned other matters , which my 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 ...
Page xix
... remarks from the papers of an eminent Traveller ; but as explaining or il- luftrating feveral paffages of Scripture , the fatisfaction , I perfuade myself , as to many , will be confiderably augment- ed . How happy would it be , if ...
... remarks from the papers of an eminent Traveller ; but as explaining or il- luftrating feveral paffages of Scripture , the fatisfaction , I perfuade myself , as to many , will be confiderably augment- ed . How happy would it be , if ...
Page xx
... remarks in these papers drawn from that work . A learned and very ingenious friend of mine * , who has refided many years in Holland , has alfo lately informed me , that Niebuhr has published a second volume , which I never faw ; and ...
... remarks in these papers drawn from that work . A learned and very ingenious friend of mine * , who has refided many years in Holland , has alfo lately informed me , that Niebuhr has published a second volume , which I never faw ; and ...
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