Observations on Various Passages of Scripture: Placing Them in a New Light; and Ascertaining the Meaning of Several, Not Determinable by the Methods Commonly Made Use of by the Learned, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... Shaw , p . 341 . b Voy . de M. Chardin , tome 2 , p . 13 . VOL . II . B and he tells us the season for eating them holds OBSERVATIONS CHAP RELATING TO THEIR DIET, Page Of Water Melons, their great Utility in the East.
... Shaw , p . 341 . b Voy . de M. Chardin , tome 2 , p . 13 . VOL . II . B and he tells us the season for eating them holds OBSERVATIONS CHAP RELATING TO THEIR DIET, Page Of Water Melons, their great Utility in the East.
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... Shaw observed that musk and water - melons began to be gathered the latter end of June in Barbary , consequently a month or more before either promegranates , the common kind of fig , or the grape , begin to ripen . But if they hold ...
... Shaw observed that musk and water - melons began to be gathered the latter end of June in Barbary , consequently a month or more before either promegranates , the common kind of fig , or the grape , begin to ripen . But if they hold ...
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... Shaw informs us are the places most proper , in those countries , for the pas- turing of cattle , on account of the springs of excellent water there , too much wanted , espe- cially in the summer season , not only in the plains of the ...
... Shaw informs us are the places most proper , in those countries , for the pas- turing of cattle , on account of the springs of excellent water there , too much wanted , espe- cially in the summer season , not only in the plains of the ...
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... Shaw . And answerable to the delicacy , as well as the plenty of what is provided for these joyous excursions , and also to the nature of their hills , the Prophet goes on , They shall not hunger nor thirst , neither shall the heat or ...
... Shaw . And answerable to the delicacy , as well as the plenty of what is provided for these joyous excursions , and also to the nature of their hills , the Prophet goes on , They shall not hunger nor thirst , neither shall the heat or ...
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... Shaw observing , that when they are sprinkled with salt , and fried , they are not unlike , in taste , to our fresh - water cray - fish ; Russell saying , the Arabs salt them up , · and eat them as a delicacy . k Even this clothing of ...
... Shaw observing , that when they are sprinkled with salt , and fried , they are not unlike , in taste , to our fresh - water cray - fish ; Russell saying , the Arabs salt them up , · and eat them as a delicacy . k Even this clothing of ...
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