A New System; Or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology:: Wherein an Attempt is Made to Divest Tradition of Fable; and to Reduce the Truth to Its Original Purity,, Volume 3J. Walker; W. J. and J. Richardson; R. Faulder and Son; R. Lea; J. Nunn; Cuthell and Martin; H.D. Symonds; Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe; E. Jeffery; Lackington, Allen, and Company; J. Booker; Black, Parry, and Kingsbury; J. Asperne; J. Murray; and J. Harris., 1807 - History, Ancient |
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... poets , were in reality temples , Dracontia ; where , among other rites , the worship of the ser- pent was instituted . There is therefore reason to think , that this temple , as well as that of Sesostris , was fashioned in respect to ...
... poets , were in reality temples , Dracontia ; where , among other rites , the worship of the ser- pent was instituted . There is therefore reason to think , that this temple , as well as that of Sesostris , was fashioned in respect to ...
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... Poet . Astronom . c . 29. p . 482 . Audi Scholiasten Germanici Aquario - Nigidius Hydrochoon sive Aquarium existimat esse Deucalionem Thessalum , qui in max- imo cataclysmo sit relictus cum uxore Pyrrhâ in monte Ætnâ , qui est ...
... Poet . Astronom . c . 29. p . 482 . Audi Scholiasten Germanici Aquario - Nigidius Hydrochoon sive Aquarium existimat esse Deucalionem Thessalum , qui in max- imo cataclysmo sit relictus cum uxore Pyrrhâ in monte Ætnâ , qui est ...
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... Poet . Astron . c . 41. p . 494 . 2 Eratosthenes ex eo pisce natos homines dicit . Hygin . Poet . Astron . 1. 2. c . 30 . 3 Ερατοσθένης δε φησί , τ8το θυτήριον είναι , εν ᾧ το πρωτον οι θεοί συνωμοσίαν εποιήσαντο . Theon . ad Arctum ...
... Poet . Astron . c . 41. p . 494 . 2 Eratosthenes ex eo pisce natos homines dicit . Hygin . Poet . Astron . 1. 2. c . 30 . 3 Ερατοσθένης δε φησί , τ8το θυτήριον είναι , εν ᾧ το πρωτον οι θεοί συνωμοσίαν εποιήσαντο . Theon . ad Arctum ...
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... poet Rhianus mentions by the title of Αρχαία άλοχος . 33 Πυῤῥαν δη ποτε την γε παλαιότεροι καλέεσκον Πυῤῥας Δευκαλίωνος απ ' αρχαίας αλόχοιο . 32 L. 12. p . 835 . 33 Strabo . 1. 9. p . 677. See Schol . Apol . Rhod . 1. 3. ν . 1089 ...
... poet Rhianus mentions by the title of Αρχαία άλοχος . 33 Πυῤῥαν δη ποτε την γε παλαιότεροι καλέεσκον Πυῤῥας Δευκαλίωνος απ ' αρχαίας αλόχοιο . 32 L. 12. p . 835 . 33 Strabo . 1. 9. p . 677. See Schol . Apol . Rhod . 1. 3. ν . 1089 ...
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... poet Templorum positor , templorum sancte refector . By this is meant , that he was a renewer of religious rites , and the worship of the Deity . Some would confine this to Italy . Xenon accordingly says of Janus , " in Italiâ primum ...
... poet Templorum positor , templorum sancte refector . By this is meant , that he was a renewer of religious rites , and the worship of the Deity . Some would confine this to Italy . Xenon accordingly says of Janus , " in Italiâ primum ...
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Page 128 - And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child ; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father. 60 And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John. 61 And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name.
Page 3 - And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him : and the LORD shut him in.
Page 3 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 5 - And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
Page 5 - And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: and he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Page 128 - And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest, for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways...
Page 197 - This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations. I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
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