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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... Tents there . III . It's Houses and Cities . IV . The Diet of it's Inhabitants , & c . V. Their Manner of Travelling . > THE THIRD EDITION , Corrected with Care , and enlarged with many new Obfervations : Numbers of them taken from fome ...
... Tents there . III . It's Houses and Cities . IV . The Diet of it's Inhabitants , & c . V. Their Manner of Travelling . > THE THIRD EDITION , Corrected with Care , and enlarged with many new Obfervations : Numbers of them taken from fome ...
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... tents , and were without other accommolations , as J. de Vitriaco ( in the Gefta Dei per Francos ) affirms it did to many . Nor is it at all ftrange that a continual wet , and the cold on the top of mountains , fhould produce the fame ...
... tents , and were without other accommolations , as J. de Vitriaco ( in the Gefta Dei per Francos ) affirms it did to many . Nor is it at all ftrange that a continual wet , and the cold on the top of mountains , fhould produce the fame ...
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... Tent , which was two or three miles off ; there he was treated with bread and coffee , he , the Arab's wife , and fome other people , he tells us , fitting by a fire . He goes farther , for he fays that in the night of the 8th of May ...
... Tent , which was two or three miles off ; there he was treated with bread and coffee , he , the Arab's wife , and fome other people , he tells us , fitting by a fire . He goes farther , for he fays that in the night of the 8th of May ...
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... tent , that is , I fuppofe , once or twice a week they dine at the gardens , as once or twice a week they dine under a tent in autumn and fpring . The cold wea- ther is not fuppofed by Solomon to have been long over , fince it is ...
... tent , that is , I fuppofe , once or twice a week they dine at the gardens , as once or twice a week they dine under a tent in autumn and fpring . The cold wea- ther is not fuppofed by Solomon to have been long over , fince it is ...
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... Tents there . OBSERVATION I .. OWEVER pleasant the dwelling un- H der tents may be in this country in fummer , and the taking now and then a re- paft there in fome favourable days of win- ter , yet the severity of the weather at fome ...
... Tents there . OBSERVATION I .. OWEVER pleasant the dwelling un- H der tents may be in this country in fummer , and the taking now and then a re- paft there in fome favourable days of win- ter , yet the severity of the weather at fome ...
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