Remains of Japhet: Being Historical Enquiries Into the Affinity and Origin of the European Languagesauthor: and sold, 1767 - 419 páginas |
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Página viii
... writers were pleased to afford them . Bollandus denied the Irish the use of letters , till their converfion by Patrick . G. Cam- brenfis counted them as a barbarous rude people , and Mr. Cox , treading in his fteps , thought he ...
... writers were pleased to afford them . Bollandus denied the Irish the use of letters , till their converfion by Patrick . G. Cam- brenfis counted them as a barbarous rude people , and Mr. Cox , treading in his fteps , thought he ...
Página x
... writers have advanced through ignorance , or malice , and refer the reader to their confutation in the progress of this work . But with great regret I must take further notice , that it is too much the difpofition of some among us , to ...
... writers have advanced through ignorance , or malice , and refer the reader to their confutation in the progress of this work . But with great regret I must take further notice , that it is too much the difpofition of some among us , to ...
Página xiii
... O Flaherty , and others , have led feveral modern writers to that opinion , which I am prevented affenting to from the course I have taken in tracing them out ... • IN In order to do this , the beft method that PREFACE . хій.
... O Flaherty , and others , have led feveral modern writers to that opinion , which I am prevented affenting to from the course I have taken in tracing them out ... • IN In order to do this , the beft method that PREFACE . хій.
Página xiv
... writing carries with it the ftrongest resem- blance of theirs and it is as certain , the Trojans were of the Scythian race ; and the auxiliaries of Troy , con- feffedly 6 " feffedly Scythian princes , feveral of whom Homer enu- merates ...
... writing carries with it the ftrongest resem- blance of theirs and it is as certain , the Trojans were of the Scythian race ; and the auxiliaries of Troy , con- feffedly 6 " feffedly Scythian princes , feveral of whom Homer enu- merates ...
Página xv
... writers , from their extravagant mythologic fables ; nay , more difficult than from the Irish fileads , or philids : and , if the world had not been happy in what Moses and the prophets have left us , the Grecian history would have ...
... writers , from their extravagant mythologic fables ; nay , more difficult than from the Irish fileads , or philids : and , if the world had not been happy in what Moses and the prophets have left us , the Grecian history would have ...
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Página 19 - 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...
Página 22 - 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.
Página 27 - 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.
Página 4 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Página 22 - So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of the earth: and they left off to build the city. 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.—Gen.
Página 32 - And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords...
Página 14 - And 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.
Página 33 - Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil ? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil...
Página 32 - Gomer and all his bands: the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands, and many people with thee.
Página 27 - And unto Eber were born two sons : the name of the one was Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided : and his brother's name was Joktan.