The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated: In Nine Books, Volume 3A. Millar, and J. and R. Tonson, 1765 - Bible |
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... expressed in their hieroglyphic writing , those things which had form , by figures ; others by arbitrary marks . See p . 72 , note ( 8 ) . But we shall fee , that when the Egyptians employed this writing for the vehicle of their fecrets ...
... expressed in their hieroglyphic writing , those things which had form , by figures ; others by arbitrary marks . See p . 72 , note ( 8 ) . But we shall fee , that when the Egyptians employed this writing for the vehicle of their fecrets ...
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... expression of the ab . stract conceptions of the mind , was by arbitrary marks : but yet the most ingenious way of ... expressed mental ideas by arbitrary marks , yet , as they improved their inventive faculties by use ; they fell ...
... expression of the ab . stract conceptions of the mind , was by arbitrary marks : but yet the most ingenious way of ... expressed mental ideas by arbitrary marks , yet , as they improved their inventive faculties by use ; they fell ...
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... and hiftorians of Greece and Rome should , out of choice , ufe a method [ FIGURATIVE EXPRESSION ] to which the high speculations , conveyed in it , requi-. perfect * Hirap . 1. i . c . 6 . 140 The Divine Legation BOOK IV .
... and hiftorians of Greece and Rome should , out of choice , ufe a method [ FIGURATIVE EXPRESSION ] to which the high speculations , conveyed in it , requi-. perfect * Hirap . 1. i . c . 6 . 140 The Divine Legation BOOK IV .
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... expressed by the fun and moon , sometimes by the basilisk ' ; Egypt , sometimes by the crocodile , sometimes by a burning censer with a heart upon it S : where the fimplicity of the first representation and the abstruseness of the ...
... expressed by the fun and moon , sometimes by the basilisk ' ; Egypt , sometimes by the crocodile , sometimes by a burning censer with a heart upon it S : where the fimplicity of the first representation and the abstruseness of the ...
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... expressed , partly by FIGURES of animals , " and partly by certain MARKS or notes , intricately knotted , revolving in the manner of a wheel , and " crouded together and curled inward like the " tendrels of a vine , fo as to hide the ...
... expressed , partly by FIGURES of animals , " and partly by certain MARKS or notes , intricately knotted , revolving in the manner of a wheel , and " crouded together and curled inward like the " tendrels of a vine , fo as to hide the ...
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againſt alphabet amongſt ancient antiquity Apuleius becauſe cafe caufe cauſe characters Chineſe Chriftians circumftance confequently Diodorus Diodorus Siculus divine Egyp Egypt Egyptian hieroglyphics Egyptians eſtabliſhed exprefs facred faid fame fays fecond feems fenfe fhall fhew fhewn fhould fignify figns figures fimple firft firſt fome fometimes fpeaking ftand ftill fubject fuch fuperftition fuppofe fupport fymbolic glyphics Gods Greece Greeks hath Herodotus hiero hiftory himſelf Hippocrates invention learned letters likewife marks miſtake Mofes moft moſt muſt myſterious nature obferved occafion Ofiris perfecution perfons Pharaoh phyficians Plutarch Porphyry prefent prieſts prophet purpoſe queſtion Quintilian racters reaſon Religion reprefented ſays ſee ſeems Sefoftris ſeveral ſhall ſpeaking ſtanding ſtate Strabo ſuch ſuppoſe Tacitus tells thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe tion Typhon underſtand underſtood uſe whofe words worship γὰρ δὲ ἐκ ἐν καὶ μὲν οἱ τὰ τὰς τε τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τῶν
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Page 310 - Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full ; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Page iii - For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
Page vi - And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
Page 299 - Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us...
Page 107 - Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us. And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us.
Page xxxvi - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Page 310 - And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's. And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
Page 111 - And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all 34 the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
Page 240 - The -whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make, an enemy of all mankind! Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose.
Page 107 - Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow : and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.