A New System; Or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology:: Wherein an Attempt is Made to Divest Tradition of Fable; and to Reduce the Truth to Its Original Purity,J. Walker; W. J. and J. Richardson; R. Faulder and Son; R. Lea; J. Nunn; Cuthell and Martin; H.D. Symonds; Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe; E. Jeffery; Lackington, Allen, and Company; J. Booker; Black, Parry, and Kingsbury; J. Asperne; J. Murray; and J. Harris., 1807 |
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... Berosus mentions , that in this place he gave instructions to his children , and vanished from the sight of men . But the sa- cred writings are upon this head silent : they only mention his planting the vine , and seemingly taking up ...
... Berosus mentions , that in this place he gave instructions to his children , and vanished from the sight of men . But the sa- cred writings are upon this head silent : they only mention his planting the vine , and seemingly taking up ...
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... Berosus bears witness , who says , that in the first age Babylon was inhabited by people of different families and nations , who resided there in great numbers . 79 Εν δε τη Βαβυλωνι πολυ πλήθος ανθρωπων γενεσθαι αλλοεθνων κατοικησαντων ...
... Berosus bears witness , who says , that in the first age Babylon was inhabited by people of different families and nations , who resided there in great numbers . 79 Εν δε τη Βαβυλωνι πολυ πλήθος ανθρωπων γενεσθαι αλλοεθνων κατοικησαντων ...
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... BEROSUS OF BABYLONIA . I CANNOT proceed without taking notice of some extracts of Babylonish history , which time has happily spared us . From what has been already said it is evident that the history of nations must commence from the ...
... BEROSUS OF BABYLONIA . I CANNOT proceed without taking notice of some extracts of Babylonish history , which time has happily spared us . From what has been already said it is evident that the history of nations must commence from the ...
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... Berosus , a priest of Belus . He was a native of Babylonia , and lived in the time of Alexander , the son of Philip . The Grecians held him in great esteem ; and he is particularly quoted by the oriental fathers , as well as by Josephus ...
... Berosus , a priest of Belus . He was a native of Babylonia , and lived in the time of Alexander , the son of Philip . The Grecians held him in great esteem ; and he is particularly quoted by the oriental fathers , as well as by Josephus ...
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... Berosus : among these is Aby- denus . I will therefore begin with his account , as it is placed first in Eusebius ; the tenor of it is in this manner . " So much concerning the wisdom of the " Chaldeans . It is said that the first king ...
... Berosus : among these is Aby- denus . I will therefore begin with his account , as it is placed first in Eusebius ; the tenor of it is in this manner . " So much concerning the wisdom of the " Chaldeans . It is said that the first king ...
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Abydenus Ægyptus æra Africanus afterwards Alexander Polyhistor alluded Amenophis Amosis antient Apollodorus apud Arabia Ararat Armenia Arrian Auritæ Babel Babylon Babylonia Bacchus Belus Berosus Bochart called Canaan Chaldea Chron Colchis consequence Cronus Cutha Cuthites Deity deluge Diodorus Dionys dispersion dynasty earth Egypt Egyptians Erythrean Ethiopians Euseb Eusebius Gods Grecians Greece Greeks Hellenes Hence Herodotus Hesiod Ibid Indus Israelites Josephus king land language learned Manethon mankind mentioned mistake Mizraim Moses mountain nations Nimrod Oannes original Perieg person Præp princes Ptolemy region reign river sacred says Scythia Sethon Shepherds shew shewn Shinar signified sons of Chus speaks Strabo styled supposed Syncell Syncellus takes notice term Tigris tion Titanian Titans tower whence worship writers γαρ δε δι δια εις εκ εν Ενθα εξ επι και κατα μεν παρα περι προς τας τε τες τοις ύπο
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Page 24 - And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech : and it came to pass, as they journeyed from the East, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar ; and they dwelt there.
Page 42 - 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 38 - These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Page 341 - Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 24 - 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 18 - By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Page 21 - He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.
Page 18 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the people According to the number of the children of Israel : For the Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
Page 38 - So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth ; and they left off to build the city.
Page 141 - Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.