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 sidor |
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... last Event The Caufes of the Actual Structure of the Earth IN A SERIES OF LETTERS . WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS . By PHILIP HOWARD , Efq . Nullius addictus jurare in verba magiftri quærere verum . HORATIUS .. LONDON : PRINTED FOR R ...
... last Event The Caufes of the Actual Structure of the Earth IN A SERIES OF LETTERS . WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS . By PHILIP HOWARD , Efq . Nullius addictus jurare in verba magiftri quærere verum . HORATIUS .. LONDON : PRINTED FOR R ...
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... last kings and their ftill exifting rajahs call themselves of the race of the fun , or of the moon . The creation of these fuperior beings , as well as that of men and of the whole universe , seems to have been very generally at first ...
... last kings and their ftill exifting rajahs call themselves of the race of the fun , or of the moon . The creation of these fuperior beings , as well as that of men and of the whole universe , seems to have been very generally at first ...
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... last peopled region . The fact of the reftorer of mankind , not un- 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 ...
... last peopled region . The fact of the reftorer of mankind , not un- 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 ...
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... last - named emperor the Chinese occupied only four provinces on the north - weft of the empire . It was in his reign , fay they , that several provinces to the fouth were discovered , into which colonies were fent . It was under his ...
... last - named emperor the Chinese occupied only four provinces on the north - weft of the empire . It was in his reign , fay they , that several provinces to the fouth were discovered , into which colonies were fent . It was under his ...
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... last gained the Bofphorus of Thrace , through which that fea had not yet forced a paffage for the discharge of great part of its waters , they foon perceived themselves environ- ed by the mountains of Hamus . The different families into ...
... last gained the Bofphorus of Thrace , through which that fea had not yet forced a paffage for the discharge of great part of its waters , they foon perceived themselves environ- ed by the mountains of Hamus . The different families into ...
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Sida 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,
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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...
Sida 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...
Sida 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...
Sida 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...