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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... faid , that one of their kings firft drew men from caves and hollow trees to inhabit huts made of reeds , and firft fub- ftituted corn to wild fruits and acorns . Some of his fucceffors are cited as the inventors of the firft rude arts ...
... faid , that one of their kings firft drew men from caves and hollow trees to inhabit huts made of reeds , and firft fub- ftituted corn to wild fruits and acorns . Some of his fucceffors are cited as the inventors of the firft rude arts ...
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... faid to be the firft town of Greece or Europe , and is pretended by the Grecian chronologers to have been built 2089 years before Chrift ( i ) . The foundation of Argos , the fecond in antiquity , does not take place , according to them ...
... faid to be the firft town of Greece or Europe , and is pretended by the Grecian chronologers to have been built 2089 years before Chrift ( i ) . The foundation of Argos , the fecond in antiquity , does not take place , according to them ...
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... faid with a certain degree of authenticity 1500 years before Chrift . If the Greeks back carry the pretended foundation of fome of their cities to above 2000 years , they at the fame time own all the events of thofe times , and of feve ...
... faid with a certain degree of authenticity 1500 years before Chrift . If the Greeks back carry the pretended foundation of fome of their cities to above 2000 years , they at the fame time own all the events of thofe times , and of feve ...
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... faid to be contemporary ; and it is evident that no very extenfive conquefts in Afia are owned by any other people before his time . Although his are not durable , Egypt becomes potent from that era . The fame learned author has , by a ...
... faid to be contemporary ; and it is evident that no very extenfive conquefts in Afia are owned by any other people before his time . Although his are not durable , Egypt becomes potent from that era . The fame learned author has , by a ...
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... faid of all the other iflands of the Archipelago , and of all the coafts of Greece and Afia minor . From Phoenicia a fet of men called Curetes , fkilled in the arts of that country , fettled , fome in Phrygia , where they were called ...
... faid of all the other iflands of the Archipelago , and of all the coafts of Greece and Afia minor . From Phoenicia a fet of men called Curetes , fkilled in the arts of that country , fettled , fome in Phrygia , where they were called ...
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