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, with the Treatise on the Creation and Fall of Man, Volume 1W. Tegg, 1858 - History, Ancient |
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Page viii
... took the greatest pains in searching the records of Taautus ; but some later writers [ probably the persons . before mentioned ] had corrupted his remains by their allegorical inter- pretations and physical additions ; for ( says Philo ) ...
... took the greatest pains in searching the records of Taautus ; but some later writers [ probably the persons . before mentioned ] had corrupted his remains by their allegorical inter- pretations and physical additions ; for ( says Philo ) ...
Page viii
... took care to tell them in a way and manner that should make them wonders in their own . a word , Moses is the only writer whose accounts are liable to no ex- ception . We must make allowances in many particulars to all others , and very ...
... took care to tell them in a way and manner that should make them wonders in their own . a word , Moses is the only writer whose accounts are liable to no ex- ception . We must make allowances in many particulars to all others , and very ...
Page ix
... took Babylon . Five generations , says Sir John Marsham , 2 could not make up 200 years . Herodotus has been thought to be mistaken in this point by all antiquity . Herennius ob- serves that Babylon3 was built by Belus , and makes it ...
... took Babylon . Five generations , says Sir John Marsham , 2 could not make up 200 years . Herodotus has been thought to be mistaken in this point by all antiquity . Herennius ob- serves that Babylon3 was built by Belus , and makes it ...
Page xi
... took no notice of what they had observed before Nabonassar , not intending to assert that they had made no observations , but , their astronomy not being at all exact , their observations were not thought worth examining . There are ...
... took no notice of what they had observed before Nabonassar , not intending to assert that they had made no observations , but , their astronomy not being at all exact , their observations were not thought worth examining . There are ...
Page xvii
... took pains to collect the ancient traditions . The first hints of physiology were brought into Greece by the poets Hesiod , Homer , Linus , and some others but these men had taken up their notions too hastily ; they gathered up a few of ...
... took pains to collect the ancient traditions . The first hints of physiology were brought into Greece by the poets Hesiod , Homer , Linus , and some others but these men had taken up their notions too hastily ; they gathered up a few of ...
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