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 - Bible |
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... verses , whether these verses reprefent the Spring in the perfon of one of the male or of the female fex ; but it should seem moft probable that he meant a female , thofe of that fex being much more affiduous in visiting , and adorning ...
... verses , whether these verses reprefent the Spring in the perfon of one of the male or of the female fex ; but it should seem moft probable that he meant a female , thofe of that fex being much more affiduous in visiting , and adorning ...
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... verses are to be understood as forming one emblematical catalogue , of the ufual afflictive attendants on old age ... verse as a general allegorical reprefentation of the decline of life , as being it's winter ; the 3d , 4th , and II ...
... verses are to be understood as forming one emblematical catalogue , of the ufual afflictive attendants on old age ... verse as a general allegorical reprefentation of the decline of life , as being it's winter ; the 3d , 4th , and II ...
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... verses , written in praise of an Atabek prince , whofe name was Mahomed , the fun of Aboubekre , begins with two lines , which fignify , " Happy youthfulness , brilliant morning , generous heart , " Which wears the gravity of age , on a ...
... verses , written in praise of an Atabek prince , whofe name was Mahomed , the fun of Aboubekre , begins with two lines , which fignify , " Happy youthfulness , brilliant morning , generous heart , " Which wears the gravity of age , on a ...
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... verse , of that time of life in general , it's winter ; and the three fucceeding verfes fhould be ap- plied to particular circumftances , which are wont to attend in common the decline of life , fome labouring under one complaint , and ...
... verse , of that time of life in general , it's winter ; and the three fucceeding verfes fhould be ap- plied to particular circumftances , which are wont to attend in common the decline of life , fome labouring under one complaint , and ...
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... verse as defcriptive of the state of a princely corpfe , after man is gone to his long home , and the mourners have gone about the ftreets , is an obfervation of great confequence to the due explanation of that part of this celebrated ...
... verse as defcriptive of the state of a princely corpfe , after man is gone to his long home , and the mourners have gone about the ftreets , is an obfervation of great confequence to the due explanation of that part of this celebrated ...
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Page 318 - And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt...
Page 269 - And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter : therefore the name of it was called Marah.
Page 53 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Page 63 - And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes : and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
Page 85 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 50 - And all the trees of the field shall know that I the Lord have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have spoken and have done it.
Page 434 - Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.
Page 62 - And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
Page 400 - And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.
Page 370 - I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way : because we had spoken unto the king, saying, " The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him ; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.