The Scriptural History of the Earth and of Mankind: Compared with the Cosmogonies, Chronologies, and Original Traditions of Ancient Nations; an Abstract and Review of Several Modern Systems; with an Attempt to Explain Philosophically, the Mosaical Account of the Creation and Deluge, and to Deduce from this Last Event the Causes of the Actual Structure of the Earth, in a Series of LettersR. Faulder, 1797 - 602 páginas |
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... equally preferved fome idea . Almost every confiderable tribe into which mankind has been divided , has been ambitious of that fort of pre - eminence which higher antiquity , and the honour of having invented or perfectioned the arts ...
... equally preferved fome idea . Almost every confiderable tribe into which mankind has been divided , has been ambitious of that fort of pre - eminence which higher antiquity , and the honour of having invented or perfectioned the arts ...
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... equally igno- rant of practice and of theory . Whilft fuch was its fate in the fcience were re - difcovered in The foundations on which certain nations have endeavoured to fupport their pretenfions to unbounded antiquity , fall of ...
... equally igno- rant of practice and of theory . Whilft fuch was its fate in the fcience were re - difcovered in The foundations on which certain nations have endeavoured to fupport their pretenfions to unbounded antiquity , fall of ...
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... Equally ambitious of high antiquity , each has very naturally taken the birth of this common father for the remote date of their origin ; and by this means the 600 years of Noah before the flood are every where added to the times ...
... Equally ambitious of high antiquity , each has very naturally taken the birth of this common father for the remote date of their origin ; and by this means the 600 years of Noah before the flood are every where added to the times ...
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... equally worthy of the most celebrated artists . It is not however neceffary to fuppofe , that any artist , even in Homer's time , could have ex- ecuted it with all that truth and elegance with which the poet con- ceived it . It was his ...
... equally worthy of the most celebrated artists . It is not however neceffary to fuppofe , that any artist , even in Homer's time , could have ex- ecuted it with all that truth and elegance with which the poet con- ceived it . It was his ...
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... equally ftrangers . The remaining Abori- gines and Siculi who still strayed in thefe folitudes were incapable of refifting these new - comers , better united , and more experienced in war . The Siculi , more obftinate , driven to the ...
... equally ftrangers . The remaining Abori- gines and Siculi who still strayed in thefe folitudes were incapable of refifting these new - comers , better united , and more experienced in war . The Siculi , more obftinate , driven to the ...
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Página 494 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Página 495 - And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness : and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Página 493 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Página 502 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.
Página 249 - They were all men of good morals, excellent in virtue and virtuous deeds, skilled in the use of weapons to strike with or to be thrown ; brave men, eager for victory in battle. 3. " But SATYAVARMAN, being continually delighted with devout meditation, and seeing his sons fit for dominion, laid upon them the burden of government. 4.
Página 408 - Wind-gap," a place several miles to the westward, and about a hundred feet higher than the present bed of the river. This Wind-gap is about a mile broad, and the stones in it such as seem to have been washed for ages by water running over them. Should this have been the case, there must have been a large lake behind that mountain, and by some uncommon swell in the waters, or by some convulsion of nature, the river must have opened its way through a different...
Página 408 - Wind-gap is about a mile broad, and the stones in it such as seem to have been washed for ages by water running over them. Should this have been the case, there must have been a large lake behind that mountain, and by some uncommon swell in the waters, or by some convulsion of nature, the river must have opened its way through a different part of the mountain, and meeting there with less...
Página 447 - To us invifible, or dimly feen In thefe thy loweft works ; yet thefe declare Thy goodnefs beyond thought, and pow'r divine. Speak ye who beft can tell, ye fons of light...
Página 409 - ... collection of waters to which this new passage gave vent. There are still remaining, and daily discovered, innumerable instances of such a deluge on both sides of the river, after it passed the hills above the falls of Trenton, and reached the champaign. On the...