Analysis of Researches Into the Origin and Progress of Historical Time, from the Creation to the Accession of C. Caligula: ...T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, (successors to Mr. Cadell) Sold also, 1796 - 446 pages |
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... from corrected texts of the original . In the former cafe , extreme credulity , in the latter , the deceiveableness of Romish imposture , is exemplified . a 4 confidered confidered , and a more fuccinet view exhibited in the PREFACE . vii.
... from corrected texts of the original . In the former cafe , extreme credulity , in the latter , the deceiveableness of Romish imposture , is exemplified . a 4 confidered confidered , and a more fuccinet view exhibited in the PREFACE . vii.
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... original ; or , to invert the argument , is it pro . bable , that the teftimony of Mofes , alone , was fuf- ficient to induce conviction ; and that the teftimony of 70 Scribes , fhut up in feparate cells , who all tranflated the fame ...
... original ; or , to invert the argument , is it pro . bable , that the teftimony of Mofes , alone , was fuf- ficient to induce conviction ; and that the teftimony of 70 Scribes , fhut up in feparate cells , who all tranflated the fame ...
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... original . More regard , however , was had to the number of names , than to physical poffibility . 3. WHETHER the Hebrew numbers were curtailed , or thofe of the Greek verfion enlarged , the fraud was executed , wilfully , methodically ...
... original . More regard , however , was had to the number of names , than to physical poffibility . 3. WHETHER the Hebrew numbers were curtailed , or thofe of the Greek verfion enlarged , the fraud was executed , wilfully , methodically ...
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... original was tranfmitted from Jerufalem to Alexandria . To prevent the danger of a shameful detection , that one copy , if difmembered and destroyed , could never be produced , as an evidence either of fidelity or fraud . But at ...
... original was tranfmitted from Jerufalem to Alexandria . To prevent the danger of a shameful detection , that one copy , if difmembered and destroyed , could never be produced , as an evidence either of fidelity or fraud . But at ...
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... original Hebrew . One motive , as felf evident , fuperfedes a train of arguments ; both parties were totally ignorant of the language , in which the facred oracles had been compofed . THE pofterity of thofe Jews , who accompanied Onias ...
... original Hebrew . One motive , as felf evident , fuperfedes a train of arguments ; both parties were totally ignorant of the language , in which the facred oracles had been compofed . THE pofterity of thofe Jews , who accompanied Onias ...
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