 | Jacob Bryant - 1793 - 512 pages
...thence proceeded the plenty, with which the prefent world is bleft. There feems to have been a nption, which of old prevailed greatly, that the Antediluvian world was under a curfe, and the earth very barren. Hence the ancient Mythologifts refer the commencement of all plenty,... | |
 | Jacob Bryant - 1807 - 448 pages
...blessing: for from thence proceeded the plenty, with which the present world is blest. There seems to have been a notion, which of old prevailed greatly,...all plenty, as well as of happiness in life, to the sera of the Deluge. And as the means by which mankind, and the fruits of the earth were preserved,... | |
 | 1819 - 496 pages
...tlie ground for thy sake : in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. V^ There seems to have been a notion, which of old prevailed greatly,...under a curse, and the earth very barren. Hence the ancient mythologists refer the commencement of all plenty as well as of happiness in life, to the aera... | |
 | 1812 - 494 pages
...greatly, that the antediluvian world was under a curse, and the earth very barren. Hence the ancient mythologists refer the commencement of all plenty as well as of happiness in life, to the asra of the Deluge. Bryant's Myth. V. vp 279The Hindus and Chinese believe that all nature is contaminated,... | |
 | 1817 - 292 pages
...sake." — There seems to have been a notion, which, of ohi prevailed greatly, that the antideluvian world was under a curse, and the earth very barren. Hence the ancient mythologists refer the commencement of all plenty as well as happiness in life, to the sera... | |
 | 1828 - 818 pages
...for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of tbjr life." There seems to have been ? notion, which of old prevailed greatly, that the Antediluvian...under a curse, and the earth very barren. Hence the ancient mythologists refer the commencement of all plenty, as well as of happiness in life, to the... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1824 - 622 pages
...that the antediluvian world was under a curse, and that the earth was very barren : hence the ancient mythologists refer the commencement of all plenty, as well as of happiness in life, to the sera of the deluge. This notion is much confirmed by Lamech's speech on the birth of Noah, which speech,... | |
 | 1828 - 580 pages
...that the antediluvian world was under a curse, and that the earth was very barren : hence the ancient mythologists refer the commencement of all plenty, as well as of happiness in life, to the tera of the deluge. This notion is much confirmed by Lantech's speech on the birth of Noah, which speech... | |
 | 1828 - 586 pages
...is the ground for thy sake ; in sorrow ehalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life." THERE seems to have been a notion, which of old prevailed greatly, that the Antediluvian world was ander a curse, and the earth тегу barren. Hence the ancient mythologists refer the commencement... | |
 | William Fleming - 1838 - 612 pages
...guidance of human actions." It is curious that a notion prevailed to a great extent among various nations that the Antediluvian world was under a curse, and the earth very barren ; hence the ancient mythologists refer the commencement of all plenty as well as of all happiness in life to the... | |
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There seems to have been a notion, which of old prevailed greatly, that the antediluvian world was under a curse, and the earth very barren. Hence the ancient mythologists refer the commencement of all plenty as well as of happiness in life, to the aera... 