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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... wind , the confequences of its blowing from different quarters , and a few other things , which the fenfes might judge . of without the help of any curious philofophi- cal inftruments , might be fufficient for illuf trating the ...
... wind , the confequences of its blowing from different quarters , and a few other things , which the fenfes might judge . of without the help of any curious philofophi- cal inftruments , might be fufficient for illuf trating the ...
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... wind , it is warm , nay fonetimes almoft hot , in the open air . That in the thirteen years that he refided there , the ice was not above three times of fuficient strength to bear a man , and this only in the fhade and with ufing ...
... wind , it is warm , nay fonetimes almoft hot , in the open air . That in the thirteen years that he refided there , the ice was not above three times of fuficient strength to bear a man , and this only in the fhade and with ufing ...
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... wind , it is warm , nay fometimes almost hot , in the open air ; and Dr. Pococke informs us that the people there enjoy it , for the Copties fpend their holy - days in fauntering about , and fitting under their walls in winter , and ...
... wind , it is warm , nay fometimes almost hot , in the open air ; and Dr. Pococke informs us that the people there enjoy it , for the Copties fpend their holy - days in fauntering about , and fitting under their walls in winter , and ...
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... in Egypt . His following words fhow that he meant no rains , no hail , no thunder , no violent ftorms • Gesta Dei per Fr. p . 1017. 2 De Vita Mofis . of of wind , which conftitute an eastern winter . In 50 Concerning the Weather.
... in Egypt . His following words fhow that he meant no rains , no hail , no thunder , no violent ftorms • Gesta Dei per Fr. p . 1017. 2 De Vita Mofis . of of wind , which conftitute an eastern winter . In 50 Concerning the Weather.
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In Two Volumes. ... Thomas Harmer. of wind , which conftitute an eastern winter . In like manner Maillet ' quotes Pliny as af- firming , there were no rains , no thunder , no earthquakes in that country ; Maillet how- ever affirms that ...
In Two Volumes. ... Thomas Harmer. of wind , which conftitute an eastern winter . In like manner Maillet ' quotes Pliny as af- firming , there were no rains , no thunder , no earthquakes in that country ; Maillet how- ever affirms that ...
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