The Sacred and Profane History of the World Connected: From the Creation of the World to the Dissolution of the Assyrian Empire at the Death of Sardanapalus, and to the Declension of the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel Under the Reigns of Ahaz and Pekah: Including the Dissertation on the Creation and Fall of Man, Volume 1Baynes, 1808 |
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Page viii
... Greek year . He flourished something more than fifty years after Nabonassar . He learned in Egypt that the year consisted of Connect . vol . i . Ann . ante Christum 509 , ' Diogenes Laert . in vit , Thaletis , three hundred and sixty ...
... Greek year . He flourished something more than fifty years after Nabonassar . He learned in Egypt that the year consisted of Connect . vol . i . Ann . ante Christum 509 , ' Diogenes Laert . in vit , Thaletis , three hundred and sixty ...
Page ix
... Greek year ; but he means , that they were the first of the Grecians who found out the deficiency of almost six hours in the year of Thales ; for he does not say , that Plato and Euxodus were the first that intro- duced three hundred ...
... Greek year ; but he means , that they were the first of the Grecians who found out the deficiency of almost six hours in the year of Thales ; for he does not say , that Plato and Euxodus were the first that intro- duced three hundred ...
Page x
... Greeks were about this time trying to fix the true measure of the year , and Solon determined in one way , and Thales in another . i Thus Ovid . Fast . lib . 1 . Tempora digereret cum Conditor Urbis , in Anno Constituit Menses quinque ...
... Greeks were about this time trying to fix the true measure of the year , and Solon determined in one way , and Thales in another . i Thus Ovid . Fast . lib . 1 . Tempora digereret cum Conditor Urbis , in Anno Constituit Menses quinque ...
Page xvii
... Greeks , who were men of an abounding fancy , and who , by new applications , and by increas- ing the number and the extravagancy of the fable , did in time leave but little appearance of any thing like truth in them . " We have much ...
... Greeks , who were men of an abounding fancy , and who , by new applications , and by increas- ing the number and the extravagancy of the fable , did in time leave but little appearance of any thing like truth in them . " We have much ...
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... Greek , and not Assyrian ; and it is said , that he represents the state of Assyria otherwise than it appears to have been Gen. xiv , when Abraham with his household beat the armies of the king of Shinaar , Elam , and three other kings ...
... Greek , and not Assyrian ; and it is said , that he represents the state of Assyria otherwise than it appears to have been Gen. xiv , when Abraham with his household beat the armies of the king of Shinaar , Elam , and three other kings ...
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Page 70 - For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of 'Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices : but this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people : and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Page 265 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 114 - 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 77 - 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.
Page 255 - And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
Page 295 - And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Page 273 - Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.
Page 265 - And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.
Page 265 - And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
Page 117 - 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.