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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... lefs cogent to reftrict them within very moderate bounds . I am inclined to think one general circum- ftance contributed much to extend the accounts of them all . Every nation is defcended from the chief of the family which was faved ...
... lefs cogent to reftrict them within very moderate bounds . I am inclined to think one general circum- ftance contributed much to extend the accounts of them all . Every nation is defcended from the chief of the family which was faved ...
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... lefs faulty and incomplete than the fragments we have of Berofus and Manetho . From the deftruction of the antient records of that country we are affured that , for all events preceding three centuries before Chrift , their history ...
... lefs faulty and incomplete than the fragments we have of Berofus and Manetho . From the deftruction of the antient records of that country we are affured that , for all events preceding three centuries before Chrift , their history ...
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... lefs true for that whole region than for Greece , that beyond that time hiftory contains more of fable than reality . If we carry our views beyond 1500 years , even that medley of truth and fable difappears , and nothing remains but a ...
... lefs true for that whole region than for Greece , that beyond that time hiftory contains more of fable than reality . If we carry our views beyond 1500 years , even that medley of truth and fable difappears , and nothing remains but a ...
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... remarks on the more or lefs fu- perior credibility which , it appears to me , belongs to one or the other , as they relate to different eras of the world . Hebrew Hebrew chronology . Begat at the age of Lived in. 58 30THOUGHTS ON THE.
... remarks on the more or lefs fu- perior credibility which , it appears to me , belongs to one or the other , as they relate to different eras of the world . Hebrew Hebrew chronology . Begat at the age of Lived in. 58 30THOUGHTS ON THE.
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