The first eleven books of the Antiquities of the Jews, with a table of the Jewish coins, weights and measuresFor Thomas and Andrews, Boston, and Isaiah Thomas, Jun., Worcester, 1809 |
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... still explains such things as required a direct explication plainly , and expressly . However , those that have a mind to know the reasons of every thing , may Find here a very curious philosophical theory , which I now indeed shall ...
... still explains such things as required a direct explication plainly , and expressly . However , those that have a mind to know the reasons of every thing , may Find here a very curious philosophical theory , which I now indeed shall ...
Page 34
... still ftanding , I do not know . Its remote fituations , at the utmost fouthern point of the fea of Sodom , in the wild and dangerous deferts of Arabia , makes it exceeding difficult for inquifitive travellers to examine the place ; and ...
... still ftanding , I do not know . Its remote fituations , at the utmost fouthern point of the fea of Sodom , in the wild and dangerous deferts of Arabia , makes it exceeding difficult for inquifitive travellers to examine the place ; and ...
Page 50
... still call mandrakes , and their defcaptions by the ancient naturalifts and phyficians , as inclines me to think thele here mentioned were really mandrakes , and ne other . know of it before - hand . But the reason 50 [ Book 1 ...
... still call mandrakes , and their defcaptions by the ancient naturalifts and phyficians , as inclines me to think thele here mentioned were really mandrakes , and ne other . know of it before - hand . But the reason 50 [ Book 1 ...
Page 58
... still in the place where he fet it , but that their fheaves ran to bow down to it , as fervants bow down to their maflers . " But as foon as they perceiv- ed the vifion foretold that he fhould obtain power and great wealth , and that ...
... still in the place where he fet it , but that their fheaves ran to bow down to it , as fervants bow down to their maflers . " But as foon as they perceiv- ed the vifion foretold that he fhould obtain power and great wealth , and that ...
Page 63
... still greater advan- tages ; but that he muft look for revenge and hatred from her , in cafe he rejected her defires , and preferred the reputation of chastity before his miftrefs ; for that he would gain nothing by fuch procedure ...
... still greater advan- tages ; but that he muft look for revenge and hatred from her , in cafe he rejected her defires , and preferred the reputation of chastity before his miftrefs ; for that he would gain nothing by fuch procedure ...
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Abfalom Abimelech Accordingly affiftance againſt Ahab alfo alſo altar Amaziah Ammonites Antiq army Babylon becauſe befides Benhadad brought caft called Canaan Canaanites caufe CHAP commanded cubits David death defired deftroyed deftruction Egypt Egyptians enemies facrifices faid fame father feaft feems felf fend fent fervants feven fhall fhewed fhould fight filver fince firft flain flew fome foon foretold ftill ftones fuch fuffer fuppofe gave hath Hebrews himſelf honour houfe houſe hundred Ifrael Ifraelites Jeroboam Jerufalem Jews Joab Jofephus Jofephus's king king's kingdom land laws Mofes moft moſt multitude obferved occafion paffed perfon perfuaded Philiftines pleaſed pofterity prefent preferve priests promifed prophet punishment reafon refolved reft reign Samaria Saul Solomon Syria tabernacle temple thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou thoufand told took tribe tribe of Judah uſe whofe wicked wife worship
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Page 15 - They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies and their order. And, that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars...
Page 24 - For of the four sons of Ham, time has not at all hurt the name of Chus; for the Ethiopians, over whom he reigned, are even at this day, both by themselves and by all men in Asia, called Chusites.
Page 375 - ... the demon, as he went out of the man, to overturn it, and thereby to let the spectators know that he had left the man...
Page 16 - For many angels" of God accompanied with women, and begat sons that proved unjust, and despisers of all that was good, on account of the confidence they had in their own strength; for the tradition is, that these men did what resembled the acts of those whom the Grecians call giants.