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... Universal Deluge , in which eight perfons only were faved , than the fourth and fifth do to the punishment of impiety and the humiliation of the proud , we may for the present affume , that the fecond , or filver , age of the Hindus was ...
... Universal Deluge , in which eight perfons only were faved , than the fourth and fifth do to the punishment of impiety and the humiliation of the proud , we may for the present affume , that the fecond , or filver , age of the Hindus was ...
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... universal tradition of Yemen is , that YOKTAN , the fon of EBER , first settled his family in that country ; which fettlement , by the computation admitted in Europe , must have been above three thousand fix hundred years ago , and ...
... universal tradition of Yemen is , that YOKTAN , the fon of EBER , first settled his family in that country ; which fettlement , by the computation admitted in Europe , must have been above three thousand fix hundred years ago , and ...
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... universal and most na- tural of the fine arts , we find no genuine specimens afcribed to them , except fome horrible warfongs expreffed in Perfian by ALI ' of Yezd , and poffibly invented by him . After the conqueft of Perfia by the ...
... universal and most na- tural of the fine arts , we find no genuine specimens afcribed to them , except fome horrible warfongs expreffed in Perfian by ALI ' of Yezd , and poffibly invented by him . After the conqueft of Perfia by the ...
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... universal do- minion ; but the Romans appropriate to themselves the whole empire of Greece , and carry their arms into Britain , of which they speak with haughty contempt : the Goths , in the fulness of time , break to pieces the ...
... universal do- minion ; but the Romans appropriate to themselves the whole empire of Greece , and carry their arms into Britain , of which they speak with haughty contempt : the Goths , in the fulness of time , break to pieces the ...
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... universal , or mixed with undoubted facts , he argues from phenomena to theorems , from those theorems to other phenomena , from causes to effects , from effects to causes , and thus arrives at the demonstration of a first intelligent ...
... universal , or mixed with undoubted facts , he argues from phenomena to theorems , from those theorems to other phenomena , from causes to effects , from effects to causes , and thus arrives at the demonstration of a first intelligent ...
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