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 pages |
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... ages . In confequence of this predilection for a fingle agent , whether fire or water , they frequently fee their fyftems expofed to embarraffing dilemmas , or overturned by contradictory facts . I should rather think that it is by ...
... ages . In confequence of this predilection for a fingle agent , whether fire or water , they frequently fee their fyftems expofed to embarraffing dilemmas , or overturned by contradictory facts . I should rather think that it is by ...
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... age , the thinness of population , the tardy birth and flow progrefs of the moft neceffary arts in thofe very regions in ... ages has been able to produce in others . Epic and tragic poetry fcarcely experienced any infancy . Homer im ...
... age , the thinness of population , the tardy birth and flow progrefs of the moft neceffary arts in thofe very regions in ... ages has been able to produce in others . Epic and tragic poetry fcarcely experienced any infancy . Homer im ...
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... ages , and it is not from their ftate we are to deduce the antiquity of nations ( c ) . Aftronomy alone feems to have a claim to an antiquity beyond the reach of record . In times abfolutely unknown the theoretical part feems to have ...
... ages , and it is not from their ftate we are to deduce the antiquity of nations ( c ) . Aftronomy alone feems to have a claim to an antiquity beyond the reach of record . In times abfolutely unknown the theoretical part feems to have ...
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... ages , nearly coinciding , as if by confent , in the annals of thofe nations , with the probable date of the deluge , bears teftimony to the recency of that great event commemorated in the traditions of almoft all ages and countries ...
... ages , nearly coinciding , as if by confent , in the annals of thofe nations , with the probable date of the deluge , bears teftimony to the recency of that great event commemorated in the traditions of almoft all ages and countries ...
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... ages and countries very remote . When the genealogies and hiftories of these deities came to be made out and collected , all thofe fcattered anecdotes were attributed to one and the fame god . Thus a multiplicity of Herculefes of various ...
... ages and countries very remote . When the genealogies and hiftories of these deities came to be made out and collected , all thofe fcattered anecdotes were attributed to one and the fame god . Thus a multiplicity of Herculefes of various ...
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