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
... these papers , is , fo far as I know , new , and as fuch will , I hope , be received by the public with approbation , or at leaft with candor . I do not mean , in fpeaking this to fay , that no one of the numerous writers of Travels ...
... these papers , is , fo far as I know , new , and as fuch will , I hope , be received by the public with approbation , or at leaft with candor . I do not mean , in fpeaking this to fay , that no one of the numerous writers of Travels ...
Page vi
... these papers to things they have incidentally and undefignedly mentioned ; though a collection of their Obfervations might be ufeful , as books of this kind are very expenfive , and , at the fame time , extremely numerous , and very ...
... these papers to things they have incidentally and undefignedly mentioned ; though a collection of their Obfervations might be ufeful , as books of this kind are very expenfive , and , at the fame time , extremely numerous , and very ...
Page vii
... These writers , which are thirteen in number , in the firft tome , befides fome other papers , and two in the fecond , had most of them vifited these countries , and fome of them poffeffed places of great diftinction in the Eaft ...
... These writers , which are thirteen in number , in the firft tome , befides fome other papers , and two in the fecond , had most of them vifited these countries , and fome of them poffeffed places of great diftinction in the Eaft ...
Page viii
... these papers . 2 Sandys is the next in order of time , who tra- velled over these countries in the reign of James I. My citations are from the fixth edition of his book , printed in 1670 . The others Voyagers which I have examined , are ...
... these papers . 2 Sandys is the next in order of time , who tra- velled over these countries in the reign of James I. My citations are from the fixth edition of his book , printed in 1670 . The others Voyagers which I have examined , are ...
Page ix
... these Travels are juftly extremely celebrated , but merely because they happen not to contain many materials proper for me . To these are to be added Egmont's and Hey- man's Travels , through part of Europe , -Syria , Palaeftine , Egypt ...
... these Travels are juftly extremely celebrated , but merely because they happen not to contain many materials proper for me . To these are to be added Egmont's and Hey- man's Travels , through part of Europe , -Syria , Palaeftine , Egypt ...
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