The Historical Geography of Arabia, Or, The Patriarchal Evidences of Revealed Religion: A Memoir...Duncan and Malcolm, 1844 |
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Sida xxxii
... Ptolemy : but Ptolemy was right , and d'Anville wrong . † Love of science can never justify the compromise of religious prin- ciple . geographical situations of the various tribes ; and , extending Xxxii HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF ARABIA .
... Ptolemy : but Ptolemy was right , and d'Anville wrong . † Love of science can never justify the compromise of religious prin- ciple . geographical situations of the various tribes ; and , extending Xxxii HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF ARABIA .
Sida xlviii
... Ptolemy is very nearly right , in ascribing the latitude 16 ° 26 ' to the city Meroe . [ Ptolem . lib . iv . cap . 8. ] Pliny is equally correct , in stating , that the two points of the ecliptic , in which the sun is in the zenith at ...
... Ptolemy is very nearly right , in ascribing the latitude 16 ° 26 ' to the city Meroe . [ Ptolem . lib . iv . cap . 8. ] Pliny is equally correct , in stating , that the two points of the ecliptic , in which the sun is in the zenith at ...
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... Ptolemy , and other ancients , have been erroneously taxed with assigning false positions , when a little adjustment only is required , to prove their statements substantially , if not cir- cumstantially , faithful . From this cause ...
... Ptolemy , and other ancients , have been erroneously taxed with assigning false positions , when a little adjustment only is required , to prove their statements substantially , if not cir- cumstantially , faithful . From this cause ...
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... Ptolemy must be hopeless . A large and close analysis of the topographical details , would seem , however , to have issued , most unexpectedly , in a complete solution . The writer , having , for his own satisfaction , analyzed and ...
... Ptolemy must be hopeless . A large and close analysis of the topographical details , would seem , however , to have issued , most unexpectedly , in a complete solution . The writer , having , for his own satisfaction , analyzed and ...
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... Ptolemy , in the modern towns of Loheia and Hodeida ; places not only far to the south of the positions assigned by Ptolemy , but which were first called into existence in the sixteenth century of our era . 4. The constant recurrence ...
... Ptolemy , in the modern towns of Loheia and Hodeida ; places not only far to the south of the positions assigned by Ptolemy , but which were first called into existence in the sixteenth century of our era . 4. The constant recurrence ...
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The Historical Geography of Arabia: Or, The Patriarchal Evidences ..., Volym 1 Charles Forster Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1844 |
The historical geography of Arabia, or the patriarchal evidences of ..., Volym 1 Charles Forster Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1844 |
The Historical Geography of Arabia; Or, The Patriarchal Evidences ..., Volym 1 Charles Forster Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1844 |
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Abulfeda Adbeel adjoining Agræi anagram ancient Arab tribes Arabia Arabian Gulf Arabs Asyr authorities Bahrein Bedouin tribes Bedouins Bochart border Burckhardt Chaldea coast colonies Cush Cushite d'Anville Dedan Dedanim denominated descendants desert district Dumah east Euphrates evidence existence fact geography of Arabia Greeks Hadoram Hadramáut Hagar Hagarenes Hagarites Harb Havilah Hedjaz identified identity inference inhabitants Isaiah Ishmael Ishmaelite Ishmaelite tribes islands Jerachæorum Jerah Jetur Joktan Joktanite Josephus Kahtan Karjé Katabania Katabeni Kedar Kedarites Kedemah Keturah Khaled land Mekka Midian modern geography Moses Mount mountains Nabatheans nations Nebaioth Nedjd Nedjran neighbourhood Nephish Niebuhr Nodab noticed Old Testament Omân Ophir origin patriarchal Persian Gulf Pliny present day primitive pronunciation proof proper name province Ptolemy Raamah race Roman Sabeans sacred Sanaa Scripture seat Sephar settlements Sheba sons of Ishmael southern Strabo Syria Tema Themi tion town traced Uzal wilderness writers Yemen Zames καὶ
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Sida 177 - And God heard the voice of the lad ; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar ? fear not ; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. № Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand ; for I will make him a great nation.
Sida 176 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
Sida 240 - Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit : let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.
Sida 239 - HE calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: If ye will enquire, enquire ye: Return, come.
Sida 162 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
Sida 186 - And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea ; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod...
Sida 213 - All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, The rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: They shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, And I will glorify the house of my glory.
Sida 187 - Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? Where is he that put his Holy Spirit within him?
Sida 182 - But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
Sida xiv - Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!