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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... fuppofed fuccef- fion of princes who were either allegorical perfonages miftaken for real , or , if real mortals , were by the gratitude of pofterity adorned with the longevity and other attributes as well as with the names of their ...
... fuppofed fuccef- fion of princes who were either allegorical perfonages miftaken for real , or , if real mortals , were by the gratitude of pofterity adorned with the longevity and other attributes as well as with the names of their ...
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... fuppofed duration of the third age . He conjectures , that the years of this age are really to be refolved into fo many days ; and proves it by a paffage of the Begavedam itself . Thus reduced , this age , including the interval ...
... fuppofed duration of the third age . He conjectures , that the years of this age are really to be refolved into fo many days ; and proves it by a paffage of the Begavedam itself . Thus reduced , this age , including the interval ...
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... the cafe in Ireland , to a chief king , whofe family , either from fuppofed pre - eminence or from election , was looked upon in the fame light 09 01 as That as the prefent emperors of Germany are by their. 28 THOUGHTS ON THE.
... the cafe in Ireland , to a chief king , whofe family , either from fuppofed pre - eminence or from election , was looked upon in the fame light 09 01 as That as the prefent emperors of Germany are by their. 28 THOUGHTS ON THE.
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... fuppofed to have taken place in Afia and Egypt , abfolutely filent as to thofe which may have paffed in other parts of the world , fhews us very explicitly , even admitting the exactitude of antient chronology , that the finest climates ...
... fuppofed to have taken place in Afia and Egypt , abfolutely filent as to thofe which may have paffed in other parts of the world , fhews us very explicitly , even admitting the exactitude of antient chronology , that the finest climates ...
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... fuppofed him born in Egypt , of a daughter of Orus . This is probably a groundlefs fuppofition ; but we may by the way re- mark , that this would fhew that the demigods of Egypt were not always thought fo antient as is pretended ...
... fuppofed him born in Egypt , of a daughter of Orus . This is probably a groundlefs fuppofition ; but we may by the way re- mark , that this would fhew that the demigods of Egypt were not always thought fo antient as is pretended ...
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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