The Scriptural History of the Earth and of Mankind: Compared with the Cosmogonies, Chronologies, and Original Traditions of Ancient Nations; an Abstract and Review of Several Modern Systems; with an Attempt to Explain Philosophically, the Mosaical Account of the Creation and Deluge, and to Deduce from this Last Event the Causes of the Actual Structure of the Earth, in a Series of LettersR. Faulder, 1797 - 602 pages |
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... fuch was its fate in the fcience were re - difcovered in The foundations on which certain nations have endeavoured to fupport their pretenfions to unbounded antiquity , fall of themfelves , in the eye of criticifm , from the moment they ...
... fuch was its fate in the fcience were re - difcovered in The foundations on which certain nations have endeavoured to fupport their pretenfions to unbounded antiquity , fall of themfelves , in the eye of criticifm , from the moment they ...
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... fuch facts as by their univerfality bid faireft to be authentic . Thefe few confentaneous points , forming the moft ftriking features of almost every national record , we fhall find concurring to eftablish the truth of a general deluge ...
... fuch facts as by their univerfality bid faireft to be authentic . Thefe few confentaneous points , forming the moft ftriking features of almost every national record , we fhall find concurring to eftablish the truth of a general deluge ...
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... fuch reigns are either reduced to their juft value , or vanish before fober criticifm . On a fubject fo intricate you will pardon me , Sir , if I attend more to plain difcuffion than to elegance of ftyle . Beido In feeking to penetrate ...
... fuch reigns are either reduced to their juft value , or vanish before fober criticifm . On a fubject fo intricate you will pardon me , Sir , if I attend more to plain difcuffion than to elegance of ftyle . Beido In feeking to penetrate ...
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... fuch as were really proper to these deified mortals , were attributed not to one only , but to feveral true perfonages , who lived in ages and countries very remote . When the genealogies and hiftories of these deities came to be made ...
... fuch as were really proper to these deified mortals , were attributed not to one only , but to feveral true perfonages , who lived in ages and countries very remote . When the genealogies and hiftories of these deities came to be made ...
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... fuch event , the date of which could not in his time be very far removed . All the general facts of which he speaks are confirmed by , or connected with , the conftant and uncommunicated traditions of every people on earth ; and ...
... fuch event , the date of which could not in his time be very far removed . All the general facts of which he speaks are confirmed by , or connected with , the conftant and uncommunicated traditions of every people on earth ; and ...
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