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 5
... wont , in the Weftern countries , to be in the fummer , but happen in the Holy - Land in winter . That in the fummer it feldom or never rains there ; but in winter , though the returns of rain are not fo frequent , after they begin to ...
... wont , in the Weftern countries , to be in the fummer , but happen in the Holy - Land in winter . That in the fummer it feldom or never rains there ; but in winter , though the returns of rain are not fo frequent , after they begin to ...
Page 26
... wont to gather together what was most valuable and magnificent , it is not im- poffible that the things made of fkins , men- tioned Numb . 31. 20. might mean fuch kind of dreffes ; but I cannot by any means perfuade myself , with Sir J ...
... wont to gather together what was most valuable and magnificent , it is not im- poffible that the things made of fkins , men- tioned Numb . 31. 20. might mean fuch kind of dreffes ; but I cannot by any means perfuade myself , with Sir J ...
Page 31
... wont to pour down with great violence three or four days and nights together , enough to drown the whole country Such violent rains in an hilly country espe- cially , as Judea is known to be , muft occa- fion inundations very dangerous ...
... wont to pour down with great violence three or four days and nights together , enough to drown the whole country Such violent rains in an hilly country espe- cially , as Judea is known to be , muft occa- fion inundations very dangerous ...
Page 54
... wont to put their horfes to grafs ; though this is not a proof that is abfolutely con- clufive , fince in fuch a time of scarcity , the want of barley and ftraw might oblige them to look for moist food at an unusual time . Before I quit ...
... wont to put their horfes to grafs ; though this is not a proof that is abfolutely con- clufive , fince in fuch a time of scarcity , the want of barley and ftraw might oblige them to look for moist food at an unusual time . Before I quit ...
Page 56
... wont to begin with fuch a fort of cloud , and that it is the fign of them at fea ; and he propofed to illuftrate this paffage by what he had obferved in going from Ormus to Bafra , with Captain Nicholas Vidal . I am forry we have only ...
... wont to begin with fuch a fort of cloud , and that it is the fign of them at fea ; and he propofed to illuftrate this paffage by what he had obferved in going from Ormus to Bafra , with Captain Nicholas Vidal . I am forry we have only ...
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