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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... such as are very different one from another : For some of them apply themselves to this part of learning to shew their great skill in composition , and that they may therein acquire a rep- utation for speaking finely ; others of them ...
... such as are very different one from another : For some of them apply themselves to this part of learning to shew their great skill in composition , and that they may therein acquire a rep- utation for speaking finely ; others of them ...
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... such as have abilities in what is useful and acceptable , to join their endeavors with his . I was also ashamed myself to permit any laziness of disposition to have a great- er influence upon me , than the delight of taking pains in such ...
... such as have abilities in what is useful and acceptable , to join their endeavors with his . I was also ashamed myself to permit any laziness of disposition to have a great- er influence upon me , than the delight of taking pains in such ...
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... such operations as become his power , and hath not preserved his writings from those indecent fables which others have framed , although by the great distance of time when he lived , he might have securely forged such lies ; for he ...
... such operations as become his power , and hath not preserved his writings from those indecent fables which others have framed , although by the great distance of time when he lived , he might have securely forged such lies ; for he ...
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... 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 wave the ...
... 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 wave the ...
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... Such of the priefts as were faved , " took the facred veffels of Jupiter Enyalius , and came to " Shinar of Babylonia . " 66 66 46 86 CHAP . V. After what manner the Pofterity of Noah fent out Colonies , and inhabited the whole Earth ...
... Such of the priefts as were faved , " took the facred veffels of Jupiter Enyalius , and came to " Shinar of Babylonia . " 66 66 46 86 CHAP . V. After what manner the Pofterity of Noah fent out Colonies , and inhabited the whole Earth ...
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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.