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 iv
... thing they were extremely ftruck with . The Traveller that has given us the greatest entertainment of this kind , of ... things which he has omitted , as well as fome that will not bear a close examination . Nor are his omiffions at all ...
... thing they were extremely ftruck with . The Traveller that has given us the greatest entertainment of this kind , of ... things which he has omitted , as well as fome that will not bear a close examination . Nor are his omiffions at all ...
Page v
... things at once ; and confequently , as his thoughts were very much taken up in illuftrat- ing the Claffics , in adding ... thing , that he has expressly remarked , of the nature of the en- fuing Obfervations . I fhall do the fame as to ...
... things at once ; and confequently , as his thoughts were very much taken up in illuftrat- ing the Claffics , in adding ... thing , that he has expressly remarked , of the nature of the en- fuing Obfervations . I fhall do the fame as to ...
Page vi
... things they have incidentally and undefignedly mentioned ; though a collection of their Obfervations might be ufeful ... thing to recommend these Obfervations ; they being rather of the cu- rious and amusing kind , like most of those ...
... things they have incidentally and undefignedly mentioned ; though a collection of their Obfervations might be ufeful ... thing to recommend these Obfervations ; they being rather of the cu- rious and amusing kind , like most of those ...
Page xiii
... thing like a due atten- tion , in pursuing the defign which appears in thefe papers : here and there a quotation may be found from other books of no great importance ; and one or two from Mr. Hanway's Hiftorical Account of the British ...
... thing like a due atten- tion , in pursuing the defign which appears in thefe papers : here and there a quotation may be found from other books of no great importance ; and one or two from Mr. Hanway's Hiftorical Account of the British ...
Page xix
... thing of im- portance hereafter prefent itself , I fhould rather chufe to throw fuch matters into a feparate publication , and , perhaps , into fome different form . I cannot help afresh expreffing my wifh , at the I can- ADVERTISEMENT ...
... thing of im- portance hereafter prefent itself , I fhould rather chufe to throw fuch matters into a feparate publication , and , perhaps , into fome different form . I cannot help afresh expreffing my wifh , at the I can- ADVERTISEMENT ...
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