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... kingdoms and ftates were formed . The annals of these kingdoms and states conftitute Modern Hiftory . The investigation of the manner in which these events were effected , elucidates one of the most interesting subjects of historical ...
... kingdoms and ftates were formed . The annals of these kingdoms and states conftitute Modern Hiftory . The investigation of the manner in which these events were effected , elucidates one of the most interesting subjects of historical ...
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... kingdom of his father , married his fifter Ge , and had by her four fons ; Hus , who is called Chronus ( or Saturn ) ; Betylus ; Dagon , who is Siton , or the god of corn ; and Atlas ; but by other wives Uranus had much iffue ...
... kingdom of his father , married his fifter Ge , and had by her four fons ; Hus , who is called Chronus ( or Saturn ) ; Betylus ; Dagon , who is Siton , or the god of corn ; and Atlas ; but by other wives Uranus had much iffue ...
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... reigned before the flood , even according to the Hebrew account ; and , Africanus , Eufebius , Panodoros , & Syncellus . if the epoch of the Egyptian kingdom began the same E 3 if The General Hiftory to the Flood . 53.
... reigned before the flood , even according to the Hebrew account ; and , Africanus , Eufebius , Panodoros , & Syncellus . if the epoch of the Egyptian kingdom began the same E 3 if The General Hiftory to the Flood . 53.
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Universal history. if the epoch of the Egyptian kingdom began the same year with that of the Babylonians , as is exprefsly faid , the total of the reigns of their antediluvian princes could not exceed twelve hundred years . Befides , the ...
Universal history. if the epoch of the Egyptian kingdom began the same year with that of the Babylonians , as is exprefsly faid , the total of the reigns of their antediluvian princes could not exceed twelve hundred years . Befides , the ...
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... kingdom in those early times , when few kings i Vide Marfh . Chron . Can . p . 18. 23. Hornius ad Sulpit . Sever . p . 21 . ( N ) The Orientals make Nimrod the author of the fect of the Magi , or worshipers of fire ; they tell us , that ...
... kingdom in those early times , when few kings i Vide Marfh . Chron . Can . p . 18. 23. Hornius ad Sulpit . Sever . p . 21 . ( N ) The Orientals make Nimrod the author of the fect of the Magi , or worshipers of fire ; they tell us , that ...
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Page 178 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs : but the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...
Page 64 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 33 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
Page 110 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 6 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison : that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold ; and the gold of that land is good : there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Page 417 - And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD...
Page 131 - By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Page 112 - And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Page 183 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Page 112 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.