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 էջ |
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Արդյունքներ 8–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... caphtor , the island of Caphtor , from whence its old inhabitants are yet called Cophts . The Ruffians and Mufcovites , whofe frozen climates have never invited conquerors to come and change their names , derive them vifibly from Rofs ...
... caphtor , the island of Caphtor , from whence its old inhabitants are yet called Cophts . The Ruffians and Mufcovites , whofe frozen climates have never invited conquerors to come and change their names , derive them vifibly from Rofs ...
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... caphtor . The found of fome names indeed totally difappears in tranflations . But it is no lefs fingular than worthy of remark , that the Tartars and Arabs , un- fubdued by the arms or ufages of thofe various conquerors , have reftored ...
... caphtor . The found of fome names indeed totally difappears in tranflations . But it is no lefs fingular than worthy of remark , that the Tartars and Arabs , un- fubdued by the arms or ufages of thofe various conquerors , have reftored ...
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... Caphtor . Turgoma has again given his to the Turcomans and their country . It is probable that the name of the province of Irac is a fmall vari- ation of Erech or Arach , one of thofe towns built by Nimrod in that country . Tchin ...
... Caphtor . Turgoma has again given his to the Turcomans and their country . It is probable that the name of the province of Irac is a fmall vari- ation of Erech or Arach , one of thofe towns built by Nimrod in that country . Tchin ...
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... Caphtor , fon of Mef- raim , whofe name is inherited in our days by the antient natives of Egypt ; of Gog or Gin , father of the oriental Tartars and of the Chinefe , who are ftill called by his name , foftened into Tchin ; of Gomer ...
... Caphtor , fon of Mef- raim , whofe name is inherited in our days by the antient natives of Egypt ; of Gog or Gin , father of the oriental Tartars and of the Chinefe , who are ftill called by his name , foftened into Tchin ; of Gomer ...
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... Caphtor or of Coptos . If later authors referred thefe changes to higher antiquity , it was because the Egyptians gave falfe dates to the towns built on the Delta . But Homer could not fpeak either of lands or towns which exift- ed not ...
... Caphtor or of Coptos . If later authors referred thefe changes to higher antiquity , it was because the Egyptians gave falfe dates to the towns built on the Delta . But Homer could not fpeak either of lands or towns which exift- ed not ...
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afferts Afia ages alfo almoft antediluvian antient antiquity appears Bailly becauſe bodies Buffon calcareous Caphtor caufe Chineſe Chrift chronology circumftances coafts compofed confequently confiderable convulfion courfe defcendants deluge depofited diftant diftinct dynafty earth Egypt Egyptian exifting faid fame fays fcience fecond feems feparation feven feveral fhall fhew fhould fide fince fire firft fituation fmall folar folid fome foon formed fouthern ftate ftill ftrata fubftances fubject fucceeded fucceffion fucceffive fuch fufficient fufion fuperior fuppofed furely furface fyftem globe Greece heat Herodotus hiftory himſelf iflands immenfe increaſe inhabitants interfected itſelf kings laft land leaft lefs mafs Manetho mankind matter Mofes moft moſt mountains muft muſt nations nature neceffary northern obfervations occafioned ocean Ogyges paffage philofophers planets poffible pofition prefent preferved probably progreffive raiſed reafon refpect reign Ruffia Septuagint Siberia ſpace terreftrial thefe themſelves thence theſe thofe thoſe tion traditions univerfal Wallerius waters weft whilft whofe whole