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We are an arbitrary and destructive confusion of indubitable history ; in an octavo volume of Animadversions , 1728. Afterwards , the learned Shuckford , in the prefaces to his Connection of Sacred and Profane History , urged further ...
We are an arbitrary and destructive confusion of indubitable history ; in an octavo volume of Animadversions , 1728. Afterwards , the learned Shuckford , in the prefaces to his Connection of Sacred and Profane History , urged further ...
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... volume is intitled , Elements of Sacred Geography . The author con- siders the site of paradise , the phænomenon and effects of the deluge , partial deluges , as those of Ogyges and Deu- calion , the settlements of the Noachida and ...
... volume is intitled , Elements of Sacred Geography . The author con- siders the site of paradise , the phænomenon and effects of the deluge , partial deluges , as those of Ogyges and Deu- calion , the settlements of the Noachida and ...
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... printed more carefully and with accents . The appear- ance of the book is handsome , and the plates , which are six in number , are well engraved . The The second volume is to contain the whole body of Hales's Analysis of Chronology .
... printed more carefully and with accents . The appear- ance of the book is handsome , and the plates , which are six in number , are well engraved . The The second volume is to contain the whole body of Hales's Analysis of Chronology .
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The second volume is to contain the whole body of Sacred Chronology ; and the third is to be devoted to all the branches of Profane Chronology . Art . II . Essays on Professional Education , by R. L. Edgeworth , Esq ...
The second volume is to contain the whole body of Sacred Chronology ; and the third is to be devoted to all the branches of Profane Chronology . Art . II . Essays on Professional Education , by R. L. Edgeworth , Esq ...
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... volume . On the present occasion , we say nothing of the Treatises on Trigonometry by Cagnoli and Bonnycastle ; because it might be thought uncandid to institute a comparison be- tween Mr. W.'s performance and others of double the size ...
... volume . On the present occasion , we say nothing of the Treatises on Trigonometry by Cagnoli and Bonnycastle ; because it might be thought uncandid to institute a comparison be- tween Mr. W.'s performance and others of double the size ...
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Page 108 - ... sun. And behold a man bent with age coming from the way of the wilderness leaning on a staff. And Abraham arose, and met him, and said unto him, ' Turn in, I pray thee, and wash thy feet, and tarry all night ; and thou shall arise early in the morning, and go on thy way.' And the man said, 'Nay; for I will abide under this tree.