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 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 61
Page
... fecond Syftem , founded on an Indian Era pretended to be fixed on real Aftronomical Obfer- vations . Notes and Illuftrations to Letter III . LETTER IV . 261 277-280 Remarks on the Monuments of Nature alledged as Proofs of the Antiquity ...
... fecond Syftem , founded on an Indian Era pretended to be fixed on real Aftronomical Obfer- vations . Notes and Illuftrations to Letter III . LETTER IV . 261 277-280 Remarks on the Monuments of Nature alledged as Proofs of the Antiquity ...
Page 14
... fecond race . Sanconiatho , a Phrygian , reckons ten generations of gods or demigods between Uranus and the prefent race of mortals . Berofus , a Chaldean , counts the fame number before a general de- luge . The Egyptians give the like ...
... fecond race . Sanconiatho , a Phrygian , reckons ten generations of gods or demigods between Uranus and the prefent race of mortals . Berofus , a Chaldean , counts the fame number before a general de- luge . The Egyptians give the like ...
Page 21
... fecond within 4000 years before the Chriftian era . If fome nations , ambitious of very high antiquity , have carried ftill higher the origin of the world , let us remark , that it is no longer for the habitation of man , but for that ...
... fecond within 4000 years before the Chriftian era . If fome nations , ambitious of very high antiquity , have carried ftill higher the origin of the world , let us remark , that it is no longer for the habitation of man , but for that ...
Page 22
... fecond letter , a fyftem which requires a fuc- ceffion , uninterrupted by any great revolution of the earth , not of 4000 , but of at leaft 30,000 years , he has given to the public another work on the aftronomy of the Indians . His ...
... fecond letter , a fyftem which requires a fuc- ceffion , uninterrupted by any great revolution of the earth , not of 4000 , but of at leaft 30,000 years , he has given to the public another work on the aftronomy of the Indians . His ...
Page 35
... fecond in antiquity , does not take place , according to them , till 282 years after . The city of Athens , fo renowned in the bright ages of Greece , is founded by Cecrops in 1556. Thebes is built by Cadmus a Phoenician , who first ...
... fecond in antiquity , does not take place , according to them , till 282 years after . The city of Athens , fo renowned in the bright ages of Greece , is founded by Cecrops in 1556. Thebes is built by Cadmus a Phoenician , who first ...
Other editions - View all
The Scriptural History of the Earth and of Mankind: Compared With the ... No preview available - 2020 |
The Scriptural History of the Earth and of Mankind: Compared with the ... Philip Howard No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
afferts Afia ages alfo almoft antediluvian antient antiquity appears Bailly becauſe bodies Buffon calcareous Caphtor caufe Chineſe Chrift chronology circumftances coafts compofed confequently confiderable convulfion courfe defcendants deluge depofited diftant diftinct dynafty earth Egypt Egyptian exifting faid fame fays fcience fecond feems feparation feven feveral fhall fhew fhould fide fince fire firft fituation fmall folar folid fome foon formed fouthern ftate ftill ftrata fubftances fubject fucceeded fucceffion fucceffive fuch fufficient fufion fuperior fuppofed furely furface fyftem globe Greece heat Herodotus hiftory himſelf iflands immenfe increaſe inhabitants interfected itſelf kings laft land leaft lefs mafs Manetho mankind matter Mofes moft moſt mountains muft muſt nations nature neceffary northern obfervations occafioned ocean Ogyges paffage philofophers planets poffible pofition prefent preferved probably progreffive raiſed reafon refpect reign Ruffia Septuagint Siberia ſpace terreftrial thefe themſelves thence theſe thofe thoſe tion traditions univerfal Wallerius waters weft whilft whofe whole