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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... supposed to have reigned at Argos . For colonies , wherever they came , in process of time superadded the tradi- tions , which they brought , to the histories of the countries , where they settled . Hence Inachus was made a king of ...
... supposed to have reigned at Argos . For colonies , wherever they came , in process of time superadded the tradi- tions , which they brought , to the histories of the countries , where they settled . Hence Inachus was made a king of ...
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... supposed king of Argos ? By Inachus is certainly meant Noah : and the history relates to some of the more early descendants of the Patri- arch . His name has been rendered very unlike itself , by having been lengthened with termina ...
... supposed king of Argos ? By Inachus is certainly meant Noah : and the history relates to some of the more early descendants of the Patri- arch . His name has been rendered very unlike itself , by having been lengthened with termina ...
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... supposed him to have been a king . Sometimes he is de- scribed as monarch of the whole earth : at other times he is reduced to a petty king of Thessaly . He is mentioned by " Hellanicus in the latter ca- pacity , who speaks of the ...
... supposed him to have been a king . Sometimes he is de- scribed as monarch of the whole earth : at other times he is reduced to a petty king of Thessaly . He is mentioned by " Hellanicus in the latter ca- pacity , who speaks of the ...
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... supposed to have founded the temple at Hierapolis ; where was a chasm , through which the waters after the deluge were said to have 4 retreated . He was likewise reported to have built the temple of Jupiter at Athens ; where was a ...
... supposed to have founded the temple at Hierapolis ; where was a chasm , through which the waters after the deluge were said to have 4 retreated . He was likewise reported to have built the temple of Jupiter at Athens ; where was a ...
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... supposed to have come thither in this manner from Phenicia . 66 Σχεδια γαρ ξυλων , και επ αυτης θεος . 67 Aristides mentions , that at Smyrna , upon the feast called Dionusia , a ship used to be carried in procession , The same custom ...
... supposed to have come thither in this manner from Phenicia . 66 Σχεδια γαρ ξυλων , και επ αυτης θεος . 67 Aristides mentions , that at Smyrna , upon the feast called Dionusia , a ship used to be carried in procession , The same custom ...
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Æneid alluded antient Apis Apollodorus Apollon apud Architis Argo Argonauts Arkite Atargatis Athenæus Baris Berith Beroë called Chron Cibotus Cronus Dæmons Damater Danaus Deity Deluge denominated described Deucalion Diodorus Dionusus earth Egypt Egyptians emblem Erech esteemed Euseb Goddess Grecians Greece Greeks Helius Hence Herodotus Hesych Hesychius hieroglyphic Hyginus Hymn Ibid Inachus Iöna Iönah Isis et Osiris Janus Juno Lunus Macrob mankind memorial mentioned Minyæ mythology nations Noah Nonnus Orphic Osiris Ovid particular Patriarch Pausan Pausanias Peleiades person personage Phoroneus Plutarch poet Poseidon preserved priests purport represented rites sacred says Schol Scholia shew shewn ship signified speaks Strabo styled supposed Syria taken notice temple term Theba Thessaly tion Typhon Venus whence worship writers Zeus Zeuth γαρ δε δι δια εις εκ εν εξ επι ες Ζευς Θεων και κατα μεν περι προς τε τοις ὡς
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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.
Page 5 - But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark...
Page 38 - And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
Page 2 - A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.