The Sacred and Profane History of the World Connected: From the Creation of the World to the Dissolution of the Assyrian Empire at the Death of Sardanapalus, and to the Declension of the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel Under the Reigns of Ahaz and Pekah: Including the Dissertation on the Creation and Fall of Man, Volume 2Baynes, 1808 - History, Ancient |
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... suppose we allow that Chiron did really place the Solstices as Sir Isaac Newton re- presents , ( though I think it most probable that he did not so place them ) yet it must be undeniably plain , that nothing can be certainly established ...
... suppose we allow that Chiron did really place the Solstices as Sir Isaac Newton re- presents , ( though I think it most probable that he did not so place them ) yet it must be undeniably plain , that nothing can be certainly established ...
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... suppose he could not find the true place of the Solstices with any tolerable exactness . The Egyptians were the first who found out , that the year con- sisted of more than three hundred and sixty days . Strabo informs us , that the ...
... suppose he could not find the true place of the Solstices with any tolerable exactness . The Egyptians were the first who found out , that the year con- sisted of more than three hundred and sixty days . Strabo informs us , that the ...
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... suppose ) in the fifteenth , then however true it be , that they were in the eleventh degrees in the time of Thales , yet it will not follow that Chiron lived but three hun- dred and twenty years before him . If Chiron could have been ...
... suppose ) in the fifteenth , then however true it be , that they were in the eleventh degrees in the time of Thales , yet it will not follow that Chiron lived but three hun- dred and twenty years before him . If Chiron could have been ...
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... suppose he was able to fore- see that there would be one , not that he could calculate exactly the time when ; per- haps he might guess within two or three weeks , and perhaps he might err above twice that number , and yet be thought in ...
... suppose he was able to fore- see that there would be one , not that he could calculate exactly the time when ; per- haps he might guess within two or three weeks , and perhaps he might err above twice that number , and yet be thought in ...
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... suppose the corrections made in his originals by later hands to be Meton's . We now call the nineteen years cycle by his name ; but I sup- pose that nothing more of it belongs to him , than an original design of something like it ...
... suppose the corrections made in his originals by later hands to be Meton's . We now call the nineteen years cycle by his name ; but I sup- pose that nothing more of it belongs to him , than an original design of something like it ...
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Page 264 - Isaac; (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth): it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Page 117 - By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called : Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
Page 446 - The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty ; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Page 503 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night...
Page 231 - And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
Page 114 - But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
Page 501 - And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.
Page 500 - Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
Page 250 - And he said, thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel : for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Page 117 - And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham : and he said, Here am I.