Remains of Japhet: Being Historical Enquiries Into the Affinity and Origin of the European Languagesauthor: and sold, 1767 - 419 pages |
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Page xi
... different from one another . THE importance , therefore , of being verfed in the learned languages firft , is known to every one who has applied to b 2 the the study of any of the liberal profeffions ; for PREFACE . xi.
... different from one another . THE importance , therefore , of being verfed in the learned languages firft , is known to every one who has applied to b 2 the the study of any of the liberal profeffions ; for PREFACE . xi.
Page xii
... learned reader to have due weight . In the course of this research , feveral obfcure paffages in ancient history are cleared up , and others corrected : and many tranfactions rescued from oblivion , which will reflect the highest honour ...
... learned reader to have due weight . In the course of this research , feveral obfcure paffages in ancient history are cleared up , and others corrected : and many tranfactions rescued from oblivion , which will reflect the highest honour ...
Page xix
... learned men . They generally have stopped contentedly , where Herodotus led them to the com- pany of Cadmus , and gave it up , that he was the inventer of letters ; and that men were illiterate before his arrival in Greece . This was ...
... learned men . They generally have stopped contentedly , where Herodotus led them to the com- pany of Cadmus , and gave it up , that he was the inventer of letters ; and that men were illiterate before his arrival in Greece . This was ...
Page xx
... learned a new language , when there were no people but the few of his own family upon the face of the earth ; and it will appear , in this work , that the children of Gomer , Magog , Mefbech and Tubal , were in poffeffion of their own ...
... learned a new language , when there were no people but the few of his own family upon the face of the earth ; and it will appear , in this work , that the children of Gomer , Magog , Mefbech and Tubal , were in poffeffion of their own ...
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... learned differtation upon the antiquity of letters , and fome account of the Pelafgi . This could not fail of giving me the highest pleasure , be- cause it is the very fubject I have been feveral years confi- dering , of which two ...
... learned differtation upon the antiquity of letters , and fome account of the Pelafgi . This could not fail of giving me the highest pleasure , be- cause it is the very fubject I have been feveral years confi- dering , of which two ...
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Page 19 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the...
Page 22 - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Page 27 - These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations : and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Page 4 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 22 - So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth : and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.—Gen.
Page 32 - And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords...
Page 14 - And Cush begat Nimrod : he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Page 33 - Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil ? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil...
Page 32 - Gomer and all his bands: the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands, and many people with thee.
Page 27 - And unto Eber were born two sons : the name of the one was Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided : and his brother's name was Joktan.