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... materials collected from the archives of the Phoenician cities . It was translated into Greek by Philo Byblius , and for the preservation of these fragments we are indebted to the care of Eusebius . The Cosmogony * I shall have occasion ...
... materials collected from the archives of the Phoenician cities . It was translated into Greek by Philo Byblius , and for the preservation of these fragments we are indebted to the care of Eusebius . The Cosmogony * I shall have occasion ...
Page xxiii
... materials from whence it was compiled . I have placed the six different versions of the Dynasties of Manetho that are extant confronting each other . The Canon of the kings of Egypt from Josephus , § I have compiled from the historical ...
... materials from whence it was compiled . I have placed the six different versions of the Dynasties of Manetho that are extant confronting each other . The Canon of the kings of Egypt from Josephus , § I have compiled from the historical ...
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... materials , I shall dwell but little upon Chronology . By far the most authentic record that has come down to us is the Canon of Ptolemæus . * It commences from the Chaldæan era of Nabonasar , and is continued to the conclusion of the ...
... materials , I shall dwell but little upon Chronology . By far the most authentic record that has come down to us is the Canon of Ptolemæus . * It commences from the Chaldæan era of Nabonasar , and is continued to the conclusion of the ...
Page xl
... Material substance , both of which were conceived by the ancients to have pre - existed , before they became united in the compound individual animal , the Man . When thus united , they appear to have conceived a triad of intellectual ...
... Material substance , both of which were conceived by the ancients to have pre - existed , before they became united in the compound individual animal , the Man . When thus united , they appear to have conceived a triad of intellectual ...
Page xli
... materials , created by the immediate agency of an Almighty power . The subsequent process of formation so com- pletely corresponds in both systems , that if they were not borrowed the one from the other , ( a po- sition which cannot be ...
... materials , created by the immediate agency of an Almighty power . The subsequent process of formation so com- pletely corresponds in both systems , that if they were not borrowed the one from the other , ( a po- sition which cannot be ...
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Page xvi - So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth : and they left off to build the city.
Page xlii - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Page 24 - ... with the heads of dogs ; men, too, and other animals, with the heads and bodies of horses, and the tails of fishes. In short, there were creatures in which were combined the limbs of every species of animals.
Page 39 - Babylon, that none who should besiege it afterwards might have it in their power to divert the river, so as to facilitate an entrance into it ; and this he did by building three walls about the inner city, and three about the outer.
Page 27 - Daesius, there would be a flood, by which mankind would be destroyed. He, therefore, enjoined him to write a history of the beginning...
Page 29 - ... them that it was upon account of his piety that he was translated to live with the gods ; that his wife and daughter, and the pilot, had obtained the same honour.
Page 172 - Syria; but that as they were in fear of the Assyrians, who had then the dominion over Asia, they built a city in that country which is now called Judea, and that large enough to contain this great number of men, and called it Jerusalem.
Page 285 - that the Egyptians esteem the sun to be the Demiurgus ; and hold the legends about Osiris and Isis, and all their other mythological fables, to have reference to the stars, their appearances and occultations, and the periods of their risings, or to the increase and decrease of the moon, to the cycles of the sun, to the diurnal and nocturnal hemispheres, or to the river.
Page 320 - Conflagration and the Deluge. He maintains that all terrestrial things will be consumed when the planets, which now are traversing their different courses, shall all coincide in the sign of Cancer, and be so placed that a straight line could pass directly through all their orbs. But the inundation will take place when the same conjunction of the planets shall occur in Capricorn.
Page 23 - He taught them to construct cities, to found temples, to compile laws, and explained to them the principles of geometrical knowledge. He made them distinguish the seeds of the earth, and showed them how to collect the fruits ; in short he instructed them in everything which could tend to soften manners and humanise their lives.