Remains of Japhet: Being Historical Enquiries Into the Affinity and Origin of the European Languagesauthor: and sold, 1767 - 419 páginas |
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Página v
... those fentiments of gratitude , which will ever reign in my breast , have proved no fmall incitement for making You this offering . BUT there are yet other more weighty rea- fons , which strongly urge me to hope for Your Lordship's ...
... those fentiments of gratitude , which will ever reign in my breast , have proved no fmall incitement for making You this offering . BUT there are yet other more weighty rea- fons , which strongly urge me to hope for Your Lordship's ...
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... them as a barbarous rude people , and Mr. Cox , treading in his fteps , thought he gratified those whom he flattered in his day , in reprefenting them as fo many favages . But both the Irish and Welsh were 6 many viii PREFACE .
... them as a barbarous rude people , and Mr. Cox , treading in his fteps , thought he gratified those whom he flattered in his day , in reprefenting them as fo many favages . But both the Irish and Welsh were 6 many viii PREFACE .
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... those times were not exempt from corruption . But this is not my present business ; and , indeed , fuch names , and the manner of their making a facrifice of truth to their own views , would only make so many blots upon honeft paper ...
... those times were not exempt from corruption . But this is not my present business ; and , indeed , fuch names , and the manner of their making a facrifice of truth to their own views , would only make so many blots upon honeft paper ...
Página xvi
... those of Moses and the prophets ; by which I was infenfibly led into the know- ledge of many of the heroes of Grecian hiftory , and thrown upon an amazing agreement between this and the records of the Irish filids ; who , by preferving ...
... those of Moses and the prophets ; by which I was infenfibly led into the know- ledge of many of the heroes of Grecian hiftory , and thrown upon an amazing agreement between this and the records of the Irish filids ; who , by preferving ...
Página xx
... those of Shem , were at all con- cerned in the affair of Babel , we must suppose them both to have been languages of the antediluvian world , and both in the house of Noah : even as many families in every nation , at this time , speak ...
... those of Shem , were at all con- cerned in the affair of Babel , we must suppose them both to have been languages of the antediluvian world , and both in the house of Noah : even as many families in every nation , at this time , speak ...
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Página 19 - 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...
Página 22 - 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.
Página 27 - 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.
Página 4 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Página 22 - So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of the earth: and they left off to build the city. 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.—Gen.
Página 32 - And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords...
Página 14 - 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.
Página 33 - Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil ? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil...
Página 32 - Gomer and all his bands: the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands, and many people with thee.
Página 27 - And unto Eber were born two sons : the name of the one was Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided : and his brother's name was Joktan.