A New System: Or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology ...J. Walker, 1807 |
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... reign'd With universal sway : but from on high Jove view'd his purpose , and oppos'd his power . For with a strong and desperate aim he hurl'd His dread artillery . Then the realms above , And earth with all its regions ; then the sea ...
... reign'd With universal sway : but from on high Jove view'd his purpose , and oppos'd his power . For with a strong and desperate aim he hurl'd His dread artillery . Then the realms above , And earth with all its regions ; then the sea ...
Page 119
... reign people had but one language ; and lived for many ages under the direction of Jupiter , without any cities being founded , or any laws pro- mulged . But after that Hermes had diversified the language of man , from whence ...
... reign people had but one language ; and lived for many ages under the direction of Jupiter , without any cities being founded , or any laws pro- mulged . But after that Hermes had diversified the language of man , from whence ...
Page 124
... reigns to an hundred " and twenty sari . " This last was the person who was warned to provide against the deluge . He accordingly built a vessel , by which means he was preserved . The history of this great event , together with the ...
... reigns to an hundred " and twenty sari . " This last was the person who was warned to provide against the deluge . He accordingly built a vessel , by which means he was preserved . The history of this great event , together with the ...
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... his ap pearing in the reign of Amenon . From what fixed term do they reckon ? to what year do they refer ? and whose are these reflexions ? 1 Abydenus , differing from both , makes the second Annedotus ANTIENT MYTHOLOGY . 125.
... his ap pearing in the reign of Amenon . From what fixed term do they reckon ? to what year do they refer ? and whose are these reflexions ? 1 Abydenus , differing from both , makes the second Annedotus ANTIENT MYTHOLOGY . 125.
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... reigns was an hundred and twenty sari . There seems to be some omission in the tran- script given by Eusebius from Apollodorus , which is supplied by Syncellus . He mentions " Amempsinus as eighth king in order , who " reigned ten sari ...
... reigns was an hundred and twenty sari . There seems to be some omission in the tran- script given by Eusebius from Apollodorus , which is supplied by Syncellus . He mentions " Amempsinus as eighth king in order , who " reigned ten sari ...
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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 natives Nimrod Oannes original 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 25 - 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 24 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Page 21 - Cush begat Nimrod : he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord : wherefore it is said, "Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord." And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Page 36 - 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 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.
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 39 - And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor : and they served other gods.
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 114 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 379 - That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.