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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... im- mediately elevated the former , and Sophocles fhortly raised the latter to full maturity . It is certain that the immediate predeceffors per- of Praxiteles and Apelles found fculpture and painting as rude. 2 of 6 THOUGHTS ON THE.
... im- mediately elevated the former , and Sophocles fhortly raised the latter to full maturity . It is certain that the immediate predeceffors per- of Praxiteles and Apelles found fculpture and painting as rude. 2 of 6 THOUGHTS ON THE.
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... raised in a fucceffion of ages by feveral independent princes , on the frontiers of their feparate territories , as a barrier against their troublesome Tartar neighbours , and was only ftrengthened and connected by new ad- ditions , and ...
... raised in a fucceffion of ages by feveral independent princes , on the frontiers of their feparate territories , as a barrier against their troublesome Tartar neighbours , and was only ftrengthened and connected by new ad- ditions , and ...
Page 148
... Memphis ; and he afferts , that this change of channel con- tributed to raise by degrees the land of Delta and add it to the valley of Egypt . Egypt . The fea , according to the tradition of. 148 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
... Memphis ; and he afferts , that this change of channel con- tributed to raise by degrees the land of Delta and add it to the valley of Egypt . Egypt . The fea , according to the tradition of. 148 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
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... raise both the general face of the country and the bed of the river itself . The Greeks , and Romans after them , took fpecial care to keep thefe chan- nels open ; but the Mahometans having more and more neglected them , the port and ...
... raise both the general face of the country and the bed of the river itself . The Greeks , and Romans after them , took fpecial care to keep thefe chan- nels open ; but the Mahometans having more and more neglected them , the port and ...
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... raised ; and its waters will confequently equally overflow the adjacent coun- tries , and , if human industry was added , extend its fecundating powers to parts formerly inacceffible to its higheft inundations . Of this I will produce ...
... raised ; and its waters will confequently equally overflow the adjacent coun- tries , and , if human industry was added , extend its fecundating powers to parts formerly inacceffible to its higheft inundations . Of this I will produce ...
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