An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time: Compiled from Original Authors; and Illustrated with Maps, Cuts, Notes, &c. With a General Index to the Whole. ...T. Osborne, in Gray's-Inn; A. Millar, in the Strand; and J. Osborn, in Pater-noster Row., 1747 |
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... fome ages after their fettlement . It is unjuft therefore to lay the whole blame of the confufion and uncertainty we find in the Egyptian history at the door of Manetho : he collected , for ought we know , faithfully from the records he ...
... fome ages after their fettlement . It is unjuft therefore to lay the whole blame of the confufion and uncertainty we find in the Egyptian history at the door of Manetho : he collected , for ought we know , faithfully from the records he ...
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... fome manner obliged to infert the following dark and antient fiction . Ofiris and Ifis were faid by fome to be the fon and daughter of Saturn and Rhea , but , according to others , their grand - fon and grand - daughter , being ...
... fome manner obliged to infert the following dark and antient fiction . Ofiris and Ifis were faid by fome to be the fon and daughter of Saturn and Rhea , but , according to others , their grand - fon and grand - daughter , being ...
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... fome have fuppofed these computa- tions to refer to verfes , others to leaves of the papyrus s and others again to fuccinct difcourfes and proverbs . But Clement of Alexandria will lead us out of this labyrinth , by the following ...
... fome have fuppofed these computa- tions to refer to verfes , others to leaves of the papyrus s and others again to fuccinct difcourfes and proverbs . But Clement of Alexandria will lead us out of this labyrinth , by the following ...
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... fome be- hind him to act as his governors , and others to gather in bis tribute . From Ethiopia he went into Arabia , and thus continued his travels till he had got beyond India . In India he built feveral cities , and particularly Nyfa ...
... fome be- hind him to act as his governors , and others to gather in bis tribute . From Ethiopia he went into Arabia , and thus continued his travels till he had got beyond India . In India he built feveral cities , and particularly Nyfa ...
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... fome children , who had feen Typhon's friends carrying it , gave her fome information . " Hence the Egyptians held children to be indued with a predictive faculty , and drew conjectures from what they faid whilst playing in temples ...
... fome children , who had feen Typhon's friends carrying it , gave her fome information . " Hence the Egyptians held children to be indued with a predictive faculty , and drew conjectures from what they faid whilst playing in temples ...
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