The Scriptural History of the Earth and of Mankind: Compared with the Cosmogonies, Chronologies, and Original Traditions of Ancient Nations; an Abstract and Review of Several Modern Systems; with an Attempt to Explain Philosophically, the Mosaical Account of the Creation and Deluge, and to Deduce from this Last Event the Causes of the Actual Structure of the Earth, in a Series of LettersR. Faulder, 1797 - 602 páginas |
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... necessary arts in those very regions in times not very remote , the fucceffive emigrations at much later periods of feeble colonies ( b ) into fertile and in aftertimes celebrated countries , then nearly un- inhabited , fhew the ...
... necessary arts in those very regions in times not very remote , the fucceffive emigrations at much later periods of feeble colonies ( b ) into fertile and in aftertimes celebrated countries , then nearly un- inhabited , fhew the ...
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... necessary to examine those first fources from which we have both of us drawn .. According to Plato , a learned prieft of Egypt informed : Solon , that in the temples of Sais in Lower Egypt were preserved the re- cords of 8000 years ...
... necessary to examine those first fources from which we have both of us drawn .. According to Plato , a learned prieft of Egypt informed : Solon , that in the temples of Sais in Lower Egypt were preserved the re- cords of 8000 years ...
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... necessary that all of them should be diffolved ; it is fufficient that that vehicle fhall help minute particles to infert themselves between larger ones , fo as to multiply the points of contact in the mass , thereby consolidating them ...
... necessary that all of them should be diffolved ; it is fufficient that that vehicle fhall help minute particles to infert themselves between larger ones , fo as to multiply the points of contact in the mass , thereby consolidating them ...
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... necessary to admit fuch alterations in that part of the world fince the deluge , in order to explain the finding of elephants in the Mo- 3 A luccos luccos long before the conftruction of ships fufficiently capacious to STRUCTURE OF THIS ...
... necessary to admit fuch alterations in that part of the world fince the deluge , in order to explain the finding of elephants in the Mo- 3 A luccos luccos long before the conftruction of ships fufficiently capacious to STRUCTURE OF THIS ...
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... necessary fer- mentation . Could then the great Creator , who had all the materials and all the forces of univerfal nature at his command , require innu- merable ages to accomplish operations which are not in fact more difficult to be ...
... necessary fer- mentation . Could then the great Creator , who had all the materials and all the forces of univerfal nature at his command , require innu- merable ages to accomplish operations which are not in fact more difficult to be ...
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afferts Afia againſt ages alfo almoſt alſo amongſt antediluvian antient antiquity Bailly becauſe Buffon calcareous caufe cauſe Chineſe Chrift chronology coafts compofed confequently confiderable convulfion courſe defcendants deluge depofited diftinct earth Egypt Egyptian eſtabliſhed exifting exiſtence faid fame fays feems feparation feven feveral fhall fhew fhould fince fire firft firſt fituation folar fome foon formed fouthern ftate ftill ftrata fubftances fubject fucceeded fucceffive fuch fufficient fuppofed furely furface fyftem globe greateſt Greece heat Herodotus higheſt himſelf hiſtory increaſe inhabitants interfected iſlands itſelf kings laft land laſt leaſt lefs leſs Manetho mankind matter Mofes moft moſt mountains muft muſt nations nature neceffary notwithſtanding obfervations occafioned Ogyges paffage philofophers planets poffible prefent preferved probably purpoſe raiſed reaſon reign ſea ſeems Septuagint ſeveral ſhall ſmall ſpace ſtate ſtill ſubſtances ſuch ſyſtem terreftrial thefe themſelves thence theſe thofe thoſe tion univerfal Wallerius waters whilft whofe whole whoſe
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Página 494 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Página 495 - And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness : and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Página 493 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Página 502 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.
Página 249 - They were all men of good morals, excellent in virtue and virtuous deeds, skilled in the use of weapons to strike with or to be thrown ; brave men, eager for victory in battle. 3. " But SATYAVARMAN, being continually delighted with devout meditation, and seeing his sons fit for dominion, laid upon them the burden of government. 4.
Página 249 - Charma, and by him were his two brothers called.
Página 408 - Wind-gap," a place several miles to the westward, and about a hundred feet higher than the present bed of the river. This Wind-gap is about a mile broad, and the stones in it such as seem to have been washed for ages by water running over them. Should this have been the case, there must have been a large lake behind that mountain, and by some uncommon swell in the waters, or by some convulsion of nature, the river must have opened its way through a different...
Página 408 - Wind-gap is about a mile broad, and the stones in it such as seem to have been washed for ages by water running over them. Should this have been the case, there must have been a large lake behind that mountain, and by some uncommon swell in the waters, or by some convulsion of nature, the river must have opened its way through a different part of the mountain, and meeting there with less...
Página 447 - To us invifible, or dimly feen In thefe thy loweft works ; yet thefe declare Thy goodnefs beyond thought, and pow'r divine. Speak ye who beft can tell, ye fons of light...
Página 409 - ... collection of waters to which this new passage gave vent. There are still remaining, and daily discovered, innumerable instances of such a deluge on both sides of the river, after it passed the hills above the falls of Trenton, and reached the champaign. On the...