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 iii
... writers of Travels into the East ever observed the conformity between some of their prefent cuftoms , and certain correfpond- ing paffages of Scripture -- It has been done most certainly , and the resemblance has been so ftriking , and ...
... writers of Travels into the East ever observed the conformity between some of their prefent cuftoms , and certain correfpond- ing paffages of Scripture -- It has been done most certainly , and the resemblance has been so ftriking , and ...
Page iv
... writers have mentioned it , and as a thing they were extremely ftruck with . The Traveller that has given us the greatest entertainment of this kind , of any that I have met with , is the late Dr. Shaw , in that curious and ufeful book ...
... writers have mentioned it , and as a thing they were extremely ftruck with . The Traveller that has given us the greatest entertainment of this kind , of any that I have met with , is the late Dr. Shaw , in that curious and ufeful book ...
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... the fame time , I fhall purposely avoid every thing , that he has expressly remarked , of the nature of the en- fuing Obfervations . I fhall do the fame as to what A 3 what other writers of Voyages have taken notice of in PREFA C E.
... the fame time , I fhall purposely avoid every thing , that he has expressly remarked , of the nature of the en- fuing Obfervations . I fhall do the fame as to what A 3 what other writers of Voyages have taken notice of in PREFA C E.
Page vi
... writers I have used , they only accidentally mention the cir- cumftances from whence I have deduced them ; nor has any other author propofed the fame thoughts to the world , fo far as I recollect - no ! they are fuppofed by me to be new ...
... writers I have used , they only accidentally mention the cir- cumftances from whence I have deduced them ; nor has any other author propofed the fame thoughts to the world , fo far as I recollect - no ! they are fuppofed by me to be new ...
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... writers of this fort , which have furnished me with materials , are thofe contained in that collection intitled Gefta Dei per Francos , printed at Hanover , in the year 1611. The Croi- fades , which began in the clofe of the eleventh ...
... writers of this fort , which have furnished me with materials , are thofe contained in that collection intitled Gefta Dei per Francos , printed at Hanover , in the year 1611. The Croi- fades , which began in the clofe of the eleventh ...
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