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, 1787 |
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Pagina ix
... defigned to have placed them as an Appendix , at the end of the second of thefe volumes ; but as the Obfervations on the Scriptures took up more room than I expected , I have selected a part only as a Specimen , to fhow how agreeable it ...
... defigned to have placed them as an Appendix , at the end of the second of thefe volumes ; but as the Obfervations on the Scriptures took up more room than I expected , I have selected a part only as a Specimen , to fhow how agreeable it ...
Pagina xiv
... defigned any other purpose than to render the bones more agreeable , and as they , it is well known , afterwards were wont to perfume them , it is natural to imagine , this fat substance might be intended to convey fome fragrancy to the ...
... defigned any other purpose than to render the bones more agreeable , and as they , it is well known , afterwards were wont to perfume them , it is natural to imagine , this fat substance might be intended to convey fome fragrancy to the ...
Pagina xix
... defigned for a guard against very fevere cold , which was ex- tremely fharp when de Tott attended the cham ; the tent of Achilles was defigned for a much more temperate climate . This laft was also not intended to be frequently moved ...
... defigned for a guard against very fevere cold , which was ex- tremely fharp when de Tott attended the cham ; the tent of Achilles was defigned for a much more temperate climate . This laft was also not intended to be frequently moved ...
Pagina lvi
... defigned to carry goods upon them , if they may fome- 1 Voy . Chardin , tome 2 , p . 67. 2 Part 2 , p . 75 , 76 . I I times occafionally be put a little to that use ; times lvi A fhort Specimen for illuftrating I have fomewhere read an ...
... defigned to carry goods upon them , if they may fome- 1 Voy . Chardin , tome 2 , p . 67. 2 Part 2 , p . 75 , 76 . I I times occafionally be put a little to that use ; times lvi A fhort Specimen for illuftrating I have fomewhere read an ...
Pagina lvii
... defigned place , the float is taken to pieces , and fold to the inhabitants . N XI . Suetonius tells us , in his Life of the Em- peror Vitellius , that a lucky omen prefented itself to that part of his army that he sent forward , before ...
... defigned place , the float is taken to pieces , and fold to the inhabitants . N XI . Suetonius tells us , in his Life of the Em- peror Vitellius , that a lucky omen prefented itself to that part of his army that he sent forward , before ...
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Pagina 7 - In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
Pagina 309 - And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had ; and they cried before him, Bow the knee : and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Pagina 449 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Pagina 313 - And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate! And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the Lord.
Pagina 136 - And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.
Pagina 198 - They shall not hunger nor thirst ; Neither shall the heat nor sun smite them : For he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, Even by the springs of water shall he guide them. And I will make all my mountains a way, And my highways shall be exalted. Behold, these shall come from far: And, lo, these from the north and from the west; And these from the land of Sinim.
Pagina 116 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Pagina 91 - Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you ? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
Pagina 425 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye build the tombs of the prophets and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, 'If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Pagina 116 - David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone. And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said, If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth.