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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... consequence of it ensued , The sacred historian , after this , mentions another act of a rebellious purpose , which con- sisted in building a lofty tower with a very evil intent . Most writers have described this and the former event as ...
... consequence of it ensued , The sacred historian , after this , mentions another act of a rebellious purpose , which con- sisted in building a lofty tower with a very evil intent . Most writers have described this and the former event as ...
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... the emigrants went probably directly east or west , in consequence of the situation to which they were appointed . But those who were 68 V. 1173 . 69 : destined to the southern parts of the great ANTIENT MYTHOLOGY . 31.
... the emigrants went probably directly east or west , in consequence of the situation to which they were appointed . But those who were 68 V. 1173 . 69 : destined to the southern parts of the great ANTIENT MYTHOLOGY . 31.
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... consequence of this , the latter part of their rout must have been in the direction mentioned in the Scriptures , which is very properly styled , a journeying from the east . I was surprized , after I had formed this opinion from the ...
... consequence of this , the latter part of their rout must have been in the direction mentioned in the Scriptures , which is very properly styled , a journeying from the east . I was surprized , after I had formed this opinion from the ...
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... consequence of it . It related only to the Cuthites of Shinar and Babel , and to those who had joined themselves to them . They seem to have been a very numerous body : and , in consequence of this calamity , they fled away ; not to any ...
... consequence of it . It related only to the Cuthites of Shinar and Babel , and to those who had joined themselves to them . They seem to have been a very numerous body : and , in consequence of this calamity , they fled away ; not to any ...
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... consequence of this failure . grew proud and unjust ; jealousies prevailed , at- tended with a love of rule ; which was followed with war and bloodshed . The chief person who began these innovations was Nimrod . The Greeks often call ...
... consequence of this failure . grew proud and unjust ; jealousies prevailed , at- tended with a love of rule ; which was followed with war and bloodshed . The chief person who began these innovations was Nimrod . The Greeks often call ...
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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.