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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... known planets : with these were joined fire , water , and air , the god of the inferior regions , and the goddess of wisdom , to make up the circle of the twelve greater gods . Thefe , the most obvious objects of veneration , were ...
... known planets : with these were joined fire , water , and air , the god of the inferior regions , and the goddess of wisdom , to make up the circle of the twelve greater gods . Thefe , the most obvious objects of veneration , were ...
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... known that the fepulchre of the Cretan Ju- piter was fhewn long after this historian . Chronology fuffered ftill more from this ftrange mixture and con- C 2 fufion fusion of fictive and real perfonages and actions . The STRUCTURE OF ...
... known that the fepulchre of the Cretan Ju- piter was fhewn long after this historian . Chronology fuffered ftill more from this ftrange mixture and con- C 2 fufion fusion of fictive and real perfonages and actions . The STRUCTURE OF ...
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... known to and under the eyes of that people . The age in which he lived coincides with times in which , as we fhall foon obferve , our Europe was as yet .... very very thinly inhabited by a few barbarous and wandering tribes STRUCTURE OF ...
... known to and under the eyes of that people . The age in which he lived coincides with times in which , as we fhall foon obferve , our Europe was as yet .... very very thinly inhabited by a few barbarous and wandering tribes STRUCTURE OF ...
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... known to the whole east under the varied pronunciations of Gin and Magin , Tchin and Matchin : from thefe the Chinese defcend , and as yet bear their names . It should feem that the name of Goth , fo famed in the weft , is also another ...
... known to the whole east under the varied pronunciations of Gin and Magin , Tchin and Matchin : from thefe the Chinese defcend , and as yet bear their names . It should feem that the name of Goth , fo famed in the weft , is also another ...
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... known to profane authors under his Hebrew name , or such as are evidently flight deviations from it , faved from the waters in a ship ( m ) , is repeated by all nations from China to the fhores of the Mediterranean and Baltic feas . The ...
... known to profane authors under his Hebrew name , or such as are evidently flight deviations from it , faved from the waters in a ship ( m ) , is repeated by all nations from China to the fhores of the Mediterranean and Baltic feas . The ...
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Էջ 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,
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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...