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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... things , which the fenfes might judge . of without the help of any curious philofophi- cal inftruments , might be ... thing of co- pioufnefs and particularity , much lefs for any number of years . Hereafter , perhaps , the Royal or ...
... things , which the fenfes might judge . of without the help of any curious philofophi- cal inftruments , might be ... thing of co- pioufnefs and particularity , much lefs for any number of years . Hereafter , perhaps , the Royal or ...
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... thing as a fmart thunder - fhower . So Dr. Ruffell tells us , that in the night betwixt the first and fecond of July , 1743 , fome fevere thunder - fhowers fell , but adds that it was a thing very extraordinary at that feafon . Poffibly ...
... thing as a fmart thunder - fhower . So Dr. Ruffell tells us , that in the night betwixt the first and fecond of July , 1743 , fome fevere thunder - fhowers fell , but adds that it was a thing very extraordinary at that feafon . Poffibly ...
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... thing . Buxtorf in his Epitome fuppofes , indeed , that this word , which is derived from a root fignifying ... things , attend the rainy feafon ? " when , " as a polite writer ' expreffes it , " the heavens are filled with " clouds ...
... thing . Buxtorf in his Epitome fuppofes , indeed , that this word , which is derived from a root fignifying ... things , attend the rainy feafon ? " when , " as a polite writer ' expreffes it , " the heavens are filled with " clouds ...
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... thing happened to many of the poorer people , engaged in an ex- pedition in which he himself was concerned , against Mount Tabor : they had fuffered fe- verely the preceding days by cold , but on the 24th of December it was fo fharp ...
... thing happened to many of the poorer people , engaged in an ex- pedition in which he himself was concerned , against Mount Tabor : they had fuffered fe- verely the preceding days by cold , but on the 24th of December it was fo fharp ...
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... things yet to come , on this fubject , much more advan- tageously than otherwife I can do . The fubftance then of the ... thing , there being but very few plants which have vigour enough to refift the ex- extreme heat . That the more ...
... things yet to come , on this fubject , much more advan- tageously than otherwife I can do . The fubftance then of the ... thing , there being but very few plants which have vigour enough to refift the ex- extreme heat . That the more ...
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