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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... done , in memorial of a former flood , of which they made the overflowing of the Nile a type . 25 As the ... taken notice , that Inachus was 24 Lutatius Placidus in Stat . Theb . 1. 1. v . 265 , 25 L. 10. p . 881 . VOL . III ...
... done , in memorial of a former flood , of which they made the overflowing of the Nile a type . 25 As the ... taken notice , that Inachus was 24 Lutatius Placidus in Stat . Theb . 1. 1. v . 265 , 25 L. 10. p . 881 . VOL . III ...
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... taken notice of by many others . As we proceed towards the east , we shall find the traces of this event more vivid and determi- nate than those of Greece ; and more conformable to the accounts of Moses . Eusebius has pre- served a most ...
... taken notice of by many others . As we proceed towards the east , we shall find the traces of this event more vivid and determi- nate than those of Greece ; and more conformable to the accounts of Moses . Eusebius has pre- served a most ...
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... taken notice of a custom among the priests of Amon , who at particular seasons used to carry in procession a boat , in which was an oracular shrine , held in great veneration . They were said to have been eighty in number ; and to have ...
... taken notice of a custom among the priests of Amon , who at particular seasons used to carry in procession a boat , in which was an oracular shrine , held in great veneration . They were said to have been eighty in number ; and to have ...
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... take notice of the ignorance of the Greeks in respect to antient titles ; and have shewn their misapplication of terms in many instances : especially in their sup- posing temples to have been erected by persons , to whom they were in ...
... take notice of the ignorance of the Greeks in respect to antient titles ; and have shewn their misapplication of terms in many instances : especially in their sup- posing temples to have been erected by persons , to whom they were in ...
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... taken notice , that this history was pretty recent when these works were executed in Egypt , and when these rites were first estab- lished and there is reason to think , that in early times most shrines among the Mizraim were formed ...
... taken notice , that this history was pretty recent when these works were executed in Egypt , and when these rites were first estab- lished and there is reason to think , that in early times most shrines among the Mizraim were formed ...
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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.