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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... 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 170
... translate the pas- fage , And they spread a bed for Saul on the house - top , and he slept ; which fhews how agreeable this explanation is to those that are acquainted with Eastern cuftoms . As it is represented in our tranflation ...
... translate the pas- fage , And they spread a bed for Saul on the house - top , and he slept ; which fhews how agreeable this explanation is to those that are acquainted with Eastern cuftoms . As it is represented in our tranflation ...
Page 171
... translation in particular has not , but renders the words , " He walked in the palace of the kingdom " of Babylon , " Dan . iv . 29 , and thrown the other reading , “ upon the palace , " into the margin , as lefs preferrable . But to ...
... translation in particular has not , but renders the words , " He walked in the palace of the kingdom " of Babylon , " Dan . iv . 29 , and thrown the other reading , “ upon the palace , " into the margin , as lefs preferrable . But to ...
Page 218
... translate hearth , arula , or a little altar , he goes on , and tells us in French , This was just as the great warm themselves in winter in Perfia , and particularly in Media , and where- ever there is no want of wood . The manner in ...
... translate hearth , arula , or a little altar , he goes on , and tells us in French , This was just as the great warm themselves in winter in Perfia , and particularly in Media , and where- ever there is no want of wood . The manner in ...
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 ...
Common terms and phrases
according Ægypt affures againſt agreeable Aleppo alfo alſo ancient anfwer appears Arabs baked Barbary barley becauſe befides bread Chardin circumftance confequently confiderable corn cuſtom d'Arvieux defcribes deferts defigned diftinction doth Eaft Eaſt Eaſtern Egmont and Heyman Egypt exprefs facred faid fame fays fecond feems fent ferved feveral fhall fhould fide fignifies fince firft firſt fmall fome fomething fometimes fpeaks ftill fuch fufficient fummer fuppofe himſelf Holy-Land honey houfes houſes Ifrael Ifraelites illuftrate imagine Jerufalem Judæa Kenites kind Kings lefs Maillet manner mentioned Mofes moft moſt muft muſt obferved occafion paffage Perfia perfons places Pococke prefent Prophet publiſhed purpoſe rain reafon Ruffell ſeems Septuagint Shaw Sir John Chardin Solomon ſpeak ſuppoſed tells tents thefe themſelves theſe theſe countries Thevenot thing thofe thoſe tion tranflated travellers ufual underſtand underſtood uſed veffel wine wont word