The Migration from Shinar: Or, the Earliest Links Between the Old and New ContinentsHodder and Stoughton, 1879 - 251 pages |
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... interesting tale of eighteen hundred years . Our Caledonian forefathers must then have been much misrepresented by the Romans . At the period of the Roman invasion the Celts could not have been rude savages . Proofs are before us which ...
... interesting tale of eighteen hundred years . Our Caledonian forefathers must then have been much misrepresented by the Romans . At the period of the Roman invasion the Celts could not have been rude savages . Proofs are before us which ...
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... interesting papers contributed to the Leisure Hour of 1874. He says , - " The time is probably approaching when it will be admitted that all languages are radically the same , and that they all have their roots in those archaic forms of ...
... interesting papers contributed to the Leisure Hour of 1874. He says , - " The time is probably approaching when it will be admitted that all languages are radically the same , and that they all have their roots in those archaic forms of ...
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... interesting fragment in the Sibylline oracles shows how widely was the cause of the dis- persion of the human race known : - " But when the judgments of the Almighty God Were ripe for execution ; when the Tower Rose to the skies upon ...
... interesting fragment in the Sibylline oracles shows how widely was the cause of the dis- persion of the human race known : - " But when the judgments of the Almighty God Were ripe for execution ; when the Tower Rose to the skies upon ...
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... interesting ruins which at the present day exist in Central America , as well as the ancient remains of populous nations that formerly lived on the plateaus of Mexico and Peru , races who pre- ceded the Aztecs and Peruvians , and who so ...
... interesting ruins which at the present day exist in Central America , as well as the ancient remains of populous nations that formerly lived on the plateaus of Mexico and Peru , races who pre- ceded the Aztecs and Peruvians , and who so ...
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... interesting work , describes them as being worthy of comparison with those existing in Egypt or India ! Few and slender are the links of the chain that connect the primitive races of the new continent with their brethren of the old ...
... interesting work , describes them as being worthy of comparison with those existing in Egypt or India ! Few and slender are the links of the chain that connect the primitive races of the new continent with their brethren of the old ...
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Page 42 - God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
Page xi - For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me : for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
Page 53 - Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; Thou crownedst him with glory and honour, And didst set him over the works of thy hands: Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet.
Page 247 - The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained...
Page 141 - And the Sun stood still, and the Moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies: is not this written in the book of Jasher ? so the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
Page 192 - In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Page 98 - Man was in ancient days of grosser mould, And Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyond the limits he had vainly set, The dullest seaboat soon shall wing her way. Men shall descry another hemisphere, Since to one common centre all things tend; So earth, by curious mystery divine Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres. At our antipodes are cities, states, And thronged empires, ne'er divined of yore. But see, the sun speeds on his western path To glad the nations with expected light.
Page 27 - Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. 7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
Page 3 - And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth : and Ham is the father of Canaan. 19 These are the three sons of Noah : and of them was the whole earth overspread.
Page 98 - Know that this theory is false, his bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashion'd like a wheel. Man was in ancient days of grosser mould, And Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyond the limits he had vainly set, The dullest seaboat soon shall wing her way. Men shall descry another hemisphere...