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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... 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 Trade over the Cafpian ...
... 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 Trade over the Cafpian ...
Page xvii
... tion are those additions of all the various kinds I have been mentioning , which have been furnished by fome MS . pa- pers of the late Sir John Chardin , who refided long in the Eaft , was a very curious Obferver , and paid a particular ...
... tion are those additions of all the various kinds I have been mentioning , which have been furnished by fome MS . pa- pers of the late Sir John Chardin , who refided long in the Eaft , was a very curious Obferver , and paid a particular ...
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... tion , in an Advertifement there , which it is unneceffary to reprint with the reft , that the learned world is extremely indebted to the late King of Denmark , for his readiness to gratify the curious Michaelis , by fending a number of ...
... tion , in an Advertifement there , which it is unneceffary to reprint with the reft , that the learned world is extremely indebted to the late King of Denmark , for his readiness to gratify the curious Michaelis , by fending a number of ...
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... tion of a state of pleasantness : for this we have not only the decifive authority of natural historians , but even grammarians derive the 3 Jofephus de Bell . Jud . lib . iii . cap . 3 . p . 26 , 27 , B 4 6 • V. 3 . word word which ...
... tion of a state of pleasantness : for this we have not only the decifive authority of natural historians , but even grammarians derive the 3 Jofephus de Bell . Jud . lib . iii . cap . 3 . p . 26 , 27 , B 4 6 • V. 3 . word word which ...
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... ? Kutz , tædio affici , fortè quod tum homines nonnihil moleftiâ afficiantur ob Calorem Solis , fays Bythner in his Lyra , p . 175 P. 161 . tion tion of a perfon profeffing himself to be a prophet 8 Concerning the Weather.
... ? Kutz , tædio affici , fortè quod tum homines nonnihil moleftiâ afficiantur ob Calorem Solis , fays Bythner in his Lyra , p . 175 P. 161 . tion tion of a perfon profeffing himself to be a prophet 8 Concerning the Weather.
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