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
... thought explanatory of paf- fages of Scripture , and many volumes of obferva- tions of this kind have been published to the world , from whence fucceeding commentators have taken them , and placed them in their writings ; but modern ...
... thought explanatory of paf- fages of Scripture , and many volumes of obferva- tions of this kind have been published to the world , from whence fucceeding commentators have taken them , and placed them in their writings ; but modern ...
Page v
... thoughts were very much taken up in illuftrat- ing the Claffics , in adding to the treafures of Na- tural Knowledge , and ... thought analogous , must be fuppofed to obferve various things that efcaped the notice of the other , and which ...
... thoughts were very much taken up in illuftrat- ing the Claffics , in adding to the treafures of Na- tural Knowledge , and ... thought analogous , must be fuppofed to obferve various things that efcaped the notice of the other , and which ...
Page vi
... thoughts to the world , fo far as I recollect - no ! they are fuppofed by me to be new , otherwife I had not published them ; though amidst such a mul- titude of books as are to be found in the libraries of the Learned , it is very ...
... thoughts to the world , fo far as I recollect - no ! they are fuppofed by me to be new , otherwife I had not published them ; though amidst such a mul- titude of books as are to be found in the libraries of the Learned , it is very ...
Page viii
... thought it was right to give my reader this notice . - Thevenot , published at London in English , 1687. - Sir John Chardin , London , 1686 . -The Voyage dans la Palestine , fait par ordre du Roi Louis XIV , taken from the papers of ...
... thought it was right to give my reader this notice . - Thevenot , published at London in English , 1687. - Sir John Chardin , London , 1686 . -The Voyage dans la Palestine , fait par ordre du Roi Louis XIV , taken from the papers of ...
Page xv
... thought fit to employ , my fpeculations relating to Eastern customs , not Eastern terms , and the man- ner of transfufing them with the greatest pro- priety into our language . The perufing of Travels is to most people a very delightful ...
... thought fit to employ , my fpeculations relating to Eastern customs , not Eastern terms , and the man- ner of transfufing them with the greatest pro- priety into our language . The perufing of Travels is to most people a very delightful ...
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