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 ページ |
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... given them an energetic growth which no number of ages has been able to produce in others . Epic and tragic poetry scarcely experienced any infancy . Homer im- mediately elevated the former , and Sophocles fhortly raised the latter to ...
... given them an energetic growth which no number of ages has been able to produce in others . Epic and tragic poetry scarcely experienced any infancy . Homer im- mediately elevated the former , and Sophocles fhortly raised the latter to ...
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... given us by Sanconia- tho , is no other than an allegory of husbandry and its labours , re- peated under other points of view in the labours of Hercules ( ƒ ) . Unfortunately for true history , many nations prodigally bestowed on their ...
... given us by Sanconia- tho , is no other than an allegory of husbandry and its labours , re- peated under other points of view in the labours of Hercules ( ƒ ) . Unfortunately for true history , many nations prodigally bestowed on their ...
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... given to him . From thence the transition was easy , and one cannot be furprifed that nations plunged in corruption and ignorance should at length identify him with nature . The idea of a : spiritual invisible divinity was gradually ...
... given to him . From thence the transition was easy , and one cannot be furprifed that nations plunged in corruption and ignorance should at length identify him with nature . The idea of a : spiritual invisible divinity was gradually ...
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... given by the general refult of all antient traditions ? The more we examine Genefis , the more we are forced to allow that it feems to be the focus from which proceed , or in which concentrate , all antient truths fcattered over the ...
... given by the general refult of all antient traditions ? The more we examine Genefis , the more we are forced to allow that it feems to be the focus from which proceed , or in which concentrate , all antient truths fcattered over the ...
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... given of an historical fact . Here then is one great and important event , which , attefted by the unanimous consent of nations , can no longer admit of reasonable doubt . It remains to determine its date by approximation , not in- deed ...
... given of an historical fact . Here then is one great and important event , which , attefted by the unanimous consent of nations , can no longer admit of reasonable doubt . It remains to determine its date by approximation , not in- deed ...
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494 ページ - 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,
495 ページ - 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.
493 ページ - 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.
502 ページ - 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.
249 ページ - 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.
408 ページ - 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...
408 ページ - 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...
447 ページ - 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...
409 ページ - ... 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...