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 xvii
... translated , and printed in 1766 ; Bufbequius , an Imperial Ambaffador , who gave the world an account of his journey into the East about two hundred years ago , in feveral letters that edition that I made ufe of was printed at Oxford ...
... translated , and printed in 1766 ; Bufbequius , an Imperial Ambaffador , who gave the world an account of his journey into the East about two hundred years ago , in feveral letters that edition that I made ufe of was printed at Oxford ...
Page 247
... translations ; and even the Septuagint itfelf fometimes tranflates the fame Hebrew word by different terms , and different Hebrew words by one Greek one : the general meaning however of most of these words may perhaps be ascertained ...
... translations ; and even the Septuagint itfelf fometimes tranflates the fame Hebrew word by different terms , and different Hebrew words by one Greek one : the general meaning however of most of these words may perhaps be ascertained ...
Page 360
... translations of those terms ; and though this matter may seem to be of little confequence , curiofity is always concerned in unravelling things of this kind , and fometimes it may be of a little importance , for the due understanding a ...
... translations of those terms ; and though this matter may seem to be of little confequence , curiofity is always concerned in unravelling things of this kind , and fometimes it may be of a little importance , for the due understanding a ...
Page 414
... translations , if Nebel really fig- nifies a bagpipe ! Nor is it any objection to my fuppofi- tion , that the Nebel was an inftrument that anciently was united with great pomp , as ap- pears from If . xiv . 11 ; for though we now very ...
... translations , if Nebel really fig- nifies a bagpipe ! Nor is it any objection to my fuppofi- tion , that the Nebel was an inftrument that anciently was united with great pomp , as ap- pears from If . xiv . 11 ; for though we now very ...
Page 449
... translated drive , rather than lead ; and this account of Dr. Pococke will alfo explain why she did not defire two affes , one for her- felf , and the other for the fervant that at- tended her . Solomon might refer to the fame , when he ...
... translated drive , rather than lead ; and this account of Dr. Pococke will alfo explain why she did not defire two affes , one for her- felf , and the other for the fervant that at- tended her . Solomon might refer to the fame , when he ...
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