The Sacred and Profane History of the World Connected: From the Creation of the World to the Dissolution of the Assyrian Empire at the Death of Sardanapalus, and to the Declension of the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel Under the Reigns of Ahaz and Pekah: Including the Dissertation on the Creation and Fall of Man, Volume 2Baynes, 1808 - History, Ancient |
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... true religion , as they were willing to favour those , who , by proper arguments , and a just behaviour and disposition , were industrious to recom- mend it to the world . I am sensible that my ambition of your Lordship's favour may be ...
... true religion , as they were willing to favour those , who , by proper arguments , and a just behaviour and disposition , were industrious to recom- mend it to the world . I am sensible that my ambition of your Lordship's favour may be ...
Page ix
... true place of the Solstices in the days of Chiron , to be in the nineteenth degrees of the con- stellations ; it will be evident from what was their true place in the year of our Lord 1689 , as well as from what was their place Ann ...
... true place of the Solstices in the days of Chiron , to be in the nineteenth degrees of the con- stellations ; it will be evident from what was their true place in the year of our Lord 1689 , as well as from what was their place Ann ...
Page x
... true place of the Solstices with any tolerable exactness . The Egyptians were the first who found out , that the year con- sisted of more than three hundred and sixty days . Strabo informs us , that the Theban priests were the most ...
... true place of the Solstices with any tolerable exactness . The Egyptians were the first who found out , that the year con- sisted of more than three hundred and sixty days . Strabo informs us , that the Theban priests were the most ...
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... true measure of the year . Thales had found out , that the year consisted of three hundred and sixty - five days ; but the exact particulars of what he had learned in this point , were not immediately known all over Greece , and so ...
... true measure of the year . Thales had found out , that the year consisted of three hundred and sixty - five days ; but the exact particulars of what he had learned in this point , were not immediately known all over Greece , and so ...
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... true measure . The notion therefore of the received com- puted year's being too short , was new in Solon's time . He was apprised that it was so ; but what Thales brought from Egypt upon the subject was not yet generally known or ...
... true measure . The notion therefore of the received com- puted year's being too short , was new in Solon's time . He was apprised that it was so ; but what Thales brought from Egypt upon the subject was not yet generally known or ...
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Page 448 - The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty ; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Page 213 - Lord: 15 looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; " lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. " For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
Page 502 - And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians.
Page 505 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night.
Page 119 - By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called : Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
Page 119 - And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham, and he said, Here am I.
Page 233 - And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
Page 497 - Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it. 3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth...
Page 503 - And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.
Page 266 - Isaac; (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.