A New System: Or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology ...J. Walker, 1807 - Folklore and history |
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... dynasties through ignorance of arrangement . What the Orientals wrote from right to left , they were apt to confound by a wrong disposition , and to de- scribe in an inverted series . Hence these supposed kings , who , according to ...
... dynasties through ignorance of arrangement . What the Orientals wrote from right to left , they were apt to confound by a wrong disposition , and to de- scribe in an inverted series . Hence these supposed kings , who , according to ...
Page 147
... dynasty ? Where is it to be found ? The history of Babylon , and of its princes , taken from the later æra , would be of vast consequence : it is of so early a date , as to be almost coeval with the annals of the new world ; and must be ...
... dynasty ? Where is it to be found ? The history of Babylon , and of its princes , taken from the later æra , would be of vast consequence : it is of so early a date , as to be almost coeval with the annals of the new world ; and must be ...
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... dynasty is not given to us , though so necessary to be made known : and much I fear that we are deprived of the second book of Po- lyhistor from Berosus ; because this dynasty of kings was to be found there , probably differently ...
... dynasty is not given to us , though so necessary to be made known : and much I fear that we are deprived of the second book of Po- lyhistor from Berosus ; because this dynasty of kings was to be found there , probably differently ...
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... dynasty of antediluvian kings , was the genealogy of Nimrod , the first king of the coun- try , in which were contained four persons ; Sisu- thrus , or the Patriarch : next , under the character of 52 Amenon , Amelon , Amilarus , is Ham ...
... dynasty of antediluvian kings , was the genealogy of Nimrod , the first king of the coun- try , in which were contained four persons ; Sisu- thrus , or the Patriarch : next , under the character of 52 Amenon , Amelon , Amilarus , is Ham ...
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... dynasties in the Egyptian chronology , mentions the Auritæ as the first who reigned . Πρωτον των Αυρίτων . They were the same as the Ἡμιθεοι , Semidei , who are placed in the same rank . 15 We are told by Manethon , that the whole body ...
... dynasties in the Egyptian chronology , mentions the Auritæ as the first who reigned . Πρωτον των Αυρίτων . They were the same as the Ἡμιθεοι , Semidei , who are placed in the same rank . 15 We are told by Manethon , that the whole body ...
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Abydenus Ægyptus æra Africanus afterwards Alexander Polyhistor alluded Amenophis Amosis antient Apollodorus apud Arabia Ararat Armenia Arrian Auritæ Babel Babylon Babylonia Bacchus Belus Berosus Bochart called Canaan Chaldea Chron Colchis consequence Cronus Cutha Cuthites Deity deluge Diodorus Dionys dispersion dynasty earth Egypt Egyptians Erythrean Ethiopians Euseb Eusebius Gods Grecians Greeks Hellenes Hence Herodotus Hesiod Ibid Indus Israelites Josephus king land language learned Manethon mankind mentioned Mizraïm Moses nations Nimrod Oannes original Perieg person Præp princes Ptolemy region reign river Sacæ sacred says Scythia Sethon Shepherds shew shewn Shinar signified sons of Chus speaks Strabo styled supposed Syncell Syncellus takes notice term Tigris tion Titanian Titans tower whence worship writers ανθρωπων γαρ δε δι δια εις εκ εν ενθα εξ επι και κατα μεν ὁι παρα περι προς τας τε τες τοις ὑπο ὡς
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Page 24 - And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
Page 24 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 38 - These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Page 341 - Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 18 - By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Page 24 - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Page 83 - And Cush begat Nimrod : he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Page 284 - And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Page 36 - And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Page 24 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth : and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.