The Sacred and Profane History of the World Connected: From the Creation of the World to the Dissolution of the Assyrian Empire at the Death of Sardanapalus, and to the Declension of the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel Under the Reigns of Ahaz and Pekah: Including the Dissertation on the Creation and Fall of Man, Volym 2 |
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Sida xiii
The notion therefore of the received computed year ' s being too short , was new
in Solon ' s time . He was apprised that it was 50 ; but what Thales brought from
Egypt upon the subject was not yet generally known or understood ; and thus ...
The notion therefore of the received computed year ' s being too short , was new
in Solon ' s time . He was apprised that it was 50 ; but what Thales brought from
Egypt upon the subject was not yet generally known or understood ; and thus ...
Sida xx
Meton might not be so exact an astronomer as he is represented . The cycle
which goes under his name might be first projected by him ; but perhaps he did
not give it that perfection which it aftera wards received . Columella lived in the
time ...
Meton might not be so exact an astronomer as he is represented . The cycle
which goes under his name might be first projected by him ; but perhaps he did
not give it that perfection which it aftera wards received . Columella lived in the
time ...
Sida xcvii
... weighty and material ; for I have , considered the very points , which are the
foundation of this new scheme , and which , if I have sufficiently answered , will
leave me no very difficult task to defend my adhering to the received chronology .
... weighty and material ; for I have , considered the very points , which are the
foundation of this new scheme , and which , if I have sufficiently answered , will
leave me no very difficult task to defend my adhering to the received chronology .
Sida xcviii
... before Hipparchus , and almost three thousand years ago ; should have really
left a most difficult point of astronomy so exactly calculated and adjusted , as to
be a foundation for us now to overturn by it all the hitherto received chronology ?
... before Hipparchus , and almost three thousand years ago ; should have really
left a most difficult point of astronomy so exactly calculated and adjusted , as to
be a foundation for us now to overturn by it all the hitherto received chronology ?
Sida 107
The remainder he returned to the king of Sodom , refusing to be himself a gainer
by receiving any part of what this victorious ... Abram at this time had no son , but
upon his desiring one , he received not only a promise of one , but was informed
...
The remainder he returned to the king of Sodom , refusing to be himself a gainer
by receiving any part of what this victorious ... Abram at this time had no son , but
upon his desiring one , he received not only a promise of one , but was informed
...
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The Sacred and Profane History of the World Connected: From the ..., Volym 4 Samuel Shuckford Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1808 |
The Sacred and Profane History of the World Connected: From the ..., Volym 2 Samuel Shuckford Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1808 |
The Sacred and Profane History of the World Connected: From the ..., Volym 3 Samuel Shuckford Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1808 |
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Sida 262 - Isaac; (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth): it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Sida 115 - By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called : Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
Sida 444 - The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty ; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Sida 501 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night...
Sida 229 - And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
Sida 112 - But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
Sida 499 - And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.
Sida 498 - Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
Sida 248 - And he said, thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel : for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Sida 115 - And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham : and he said, Here am I.