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
... those that have publifhed obfervations on the ancient Greek writers , to 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 ...
... those that have publifhed obfervations on the ancient Greek writers , to 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 ...
Page vi
... those places of Scripture they have illuftrated , who may have no opportunity of perufing those authors , or leifure to collect together things that are fo thinly scat- tered . But however useful fuch a work might be , it is not what I ...
... those places of Scripture they have illuftrated , who may have no opportunity of perufing those authors , or leifure to collect together things that are fo thinly scat- tered . But however useful fuch a work might be , it is not what I ...
Page vii
... those I have run over , leaving it to others , if they think fit , to examine those that have not fallen in my way . The earliest writers of this fort , which have furnished me with materials , are thofe contained in that collection ...
... those I have run over , leaving it to others , if they think fit , to examine those that have not fallen in my way . The earliest writers of this fort , which have furnished me with materials , are thofe contained in that collection ...
Page xiii
... those copper- plates , which exhibit fo noble a reprefentation of the Ruins of Palmyra and Balbec , which were given to the Public within a few years past . Thefe are all the books of this kind which I have examined , with any thing ...
... those copper- plates , which exhibit fo noble a reprefentation of the Ruins of Palmyra and Balbec , which were given to the Public within a few years past . Thefe are all the books of this kind which I have examined , with any thing ...
Page xiv
... those I have fet down , which I have chofen to pafs over in filence , for want of fufficient precision in thofe Authors , and of the means of determining those matters with greater exactnefs from other Writers , or from Conversation with ...
... those I have fet down , which I have chofen to pafs over in filence , for want of fufficient precision in thofe Authors , and of the means of determining those matters with greater exactnefs from other Writers , or from Conversation with ...
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