Volume 1

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 / originally compiled by the Rev. Thomas Harmer, from relations incidentally mentioned in books of voyages and travels into the East.

  • Thomas Harmer
Date:
1808
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Credit: 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 / originally compiled by the Rev. Thomas Harmer, from relations incidentally mentioned in books of voyages and travels into the East. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS OF VOL. I. PACK PREFACE to the fourth edition. Preface by the Original Compiler, to the first edition of the two first Volumes i His Advertisement concerning the second edition of the two first Volumes xxv His Preface to the first edition of the two additional Volumes xxxi Advertisement to the short Account of Mr. Harmer xxxix Character of Mr. Harmer by Dr. Symonds xl Brief Memoirs of the Life, Character, and Writings of Mr. Harmer xliv A short Specimen of the Advantage that may be de- rived from Books of Travels into the East, for illustrating the Greek and Roman Classics, as also Josephus and Jcrom. OBSERVATION I. Of the Manner in which the Body was prepared for Interment Ii II. Of sleeping in the Porch of the Tent ]T III. On the Meaning of the Expression,iaWdiwgahowt an Oak or a Rock, used by Homer lix IV. Criticism on a remarkable Passage in the Rudens of Plautus ]xvj V. Curious Illustration of a Passage in Tibullus.. .. lxx VI. Of the Murrine Cups used by the Ancients lxxi VII. On Horace’s Opinion of the Excellence of the Flesh of those Goals which were fed on Vines lxxvii VIII. On the Greasy Water mentioned by Horace, Sat. lib. 2, ver. 68, 69 lxxviii IN. A curious Illustration of a Passage in Persius. Ixxxi X. Of the Earthenware boats, which Juvenal is sup- posed to ascribe to the Egyptians xc XI. Of the Eagle which appeared, according to Sueto- nius, in the Army of the Emperor Vitellius. xciv XII. Warriors slept in (heir Tents, with a Spear stuck in the Ground at their Head xeyi