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... limits . The most conspicuous event of which we have any account in that remote age , was the siege and destruction of Troy . It can hardly be called an his- torical event at all . A war in which the gods take sides , and enter into ...
... limits . The most conspicuous event of which we have any account in that remote age , was the siege and destruction of Troy . It can hardly be called an his- torical event at all . A war in which the gods take sides , and enter into ...
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... limits . This tendency to modernize is sometimes , doubtless , suffered to proceed too far . But however this may be , this fact may be regarded as estab- lished , viz . , that the ancient literature of India affords no materials for ...
... limits . This tendency to modernize is sometimes , doubtless , suffered to proceed too far . But however this may be , this fact may be regarded as estab- lished , viz . , that the ancient literature of India affords no materials for ...
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... limits very similar to those occupied by that particular combination of animals which are peculiar to the same tracts of land and sea . “ The region inhabited by the Mongolian race is also a natural zoological province , covered by a ...
... limits very similar to those occupied by that particular combination of animals which are peculiar to the same tracts of land and sea . “ The region inhabited by the Mongolian race is also a natural zoological province , covered by a ...
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... limits of two series of organized beings , so widely differing as man , and animals , and plants , and so entirely unconnected in point of descent , would , to the mind of a naturalist , amount to a demonstration that they originated ...
... limits of two series of organized beings , so widely differing as man , and animals , and plants , and so entirely unconnected in point of descent , would , to the mind of a naturalist , amount to a demonstration that they originated ...
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... limit the murderer's fears to persons then living ? There were generations to come , among whom he knew that the story would be told ; and he might well apprehend that some avenger of blood would arise long years after that , to redress ...
... limit the murderer's fears to persons then living ? There were generations to come , among whom he knew that the story would be told ; and he might well apprehend that some avenger of blood would arise long years after that , to redress ...
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Page 284 - And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
Page 285 - And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred' and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
Page 145 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 197 - No man hath seen God at any time ; the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
Page 13 - I need not dwell on the proofs of the low antiquity of our species, for it is not controverted by any experienced geologist ; indeed, the real difficulty consists in tracing back the signs of man's existence on the earth to that comparatively modern period when species, now his contemporaries, began to predominate. If there be a difference of opinion respecting the occurrence in certain deposits of the remains of man and his works, it...
Page 325 - ... composition with them, that they should leave Egypt, and go, without any harm to be done to them, whithersoever they would; and that, after this composition was made, they went away with their whole families and effects, not fewer in number than two hundred and forty thousand, and took their journey from Egypt, through the wilderness, for 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...
Page 324 - That under a king, whose name was Alisphragmuthosis, the shepherds were subdued by him, and were indeed driven out of other parts of Egypt, but were shut up in a place that contained ten thousand acres; this place was named Avaris-.
Page 284 - And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
Page 195 - He, having willed to produce various beings from his own divine substance, first with a thought created the waters, and placed in them a productive seed...
Page 127 - 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.