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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... mafs thofe remarkable events , which appearing every where promi- nent in the traditions of every nation , thence acquire a real authenticity as fundamental points of univerfal hiflory ; and to the offering a few dates , too high ...
... mafs thofe remarkable events , which appearing every where promi- nent in the traditions of every nation , thence acquire a real authenticity as fundamental points of univerfal hiflory ; and to the offering a few dates , too high ...
Page 115
... mafs , whofe birth terminated the Tayku , or the higheft antiquity . Here again he may be Noah fucceed- ing the antediluvian kings of the earth ; or elfe this whole paffage may dicate the creation of man fucceeding that of animals ...
... mafs , whofe birth terminated the Tayku , or the higheft antiquity . Here again he may be Noah fucceed- ing the antediluvian kings of the earth ; or elfe this whole paffage may dicate the creation of man fucceeding that of animals ...
Page 179
... mafs of the people , it stood prepared to throw off in- difcriminately , as equal prejudices , every remaining tie which united it in confraternity or bound it to authority . Hence that egotifm , regardless of family , friends or ...
... mafs of the people , it stood prepared to throw off in- difcriminately , as equal prejudices , every remaining tie which united it in confraternity or bound it to authority . Hence that egotifm , regardless of family , friends or ...
Page 189
... mafs of juftly diffatisfied men . Can government and the conftitution for ever remain fecure with fuch a leven , fermenting in fo large a portion of its fubjects ? Reftore to all their unre- ftricted rights , and all union is diffolved ...
... mafs of juftly diffatisfied men . Can government and the conftitution for ever remain fecure with fuch a leven , fermenting in fo large a portion of its fubjects ? Reftore to all their unre- ftricted rights , and all union is diffolved ...
Page 285
... mafs of vitreous matter in fufion , kept in ftrong and perpetual motion , firft by the preffure of the comets , which he and and at leaft to 115 , and fuppofes to amount to between 400 a 500 , afterwards accelerated by the additional ...
... mafs of vitreous matter in fufion , kept in ftrong and perpetual motion , firft by the preffure of the comets , which he and and at leaft to 115 , and fuppofes to amount to between 400 a 500 , afterwards accelerated by the additional ...
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