American Antiquities, and Discoveries in the West: Being an Exhibition of the Evidence that an Ancient Population ... Differing Entirely from ... the Present Indians, Peopled America Many Centuries Before Its Discovery by Columbus. And Inquiries Into Their Origin, with a Copious Description of Many of Their Stupendous Works Now in Ruins. With Conjectures what May Have Become of Them ...Hoffman & White, 1833 - 400 páginas |
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... king before the era of the flood of Noah . But to the research of this highly gifted antiquarian , Rafinesque , we are greatly indebted in one important respect : It is well known that persons in the learned world have greatly admired ...
... king before the era of the flood of Noah . But to the research of this highly gifted antiquarian , Rafinesque , we are greatly indebted in one important respect : It is well known that persons in the learned world have greatly admired ...
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... king , named F'et - ela , ( or dog , ) saved them- selves on a mountain of the same name , Coat - lan . But we consider this tradition to relate only to the first efforts at house building after the flood of Noah , round about the ...
... king , named F'et - ela , ( or dog , ) saved them- selves on a mountain of the same name , Coat - lan . But we consider this tradition to relate only to the first efforts at house building after the flood of Noah , round about the ...
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... king of Salem , " which word Mel- chisedec , was an epithet , or title of honor and respect , not a pro- per name , and therefore , as the head and father of his race , Abra- ham paid tithes to him . This seems to be well founded , and ...
... king of Salem , " which word Mel- chisedec , was an epithet , or title of honor and respect , not a pro- per name , and therefore , as the head and father of his race , Abra- ham paid tithes to him . This seems to be well founded , and ...
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... King , Jesus Christ , whose eternal generation who shall declare ! Ha Mashiach , the Lord's Anointed High Priest and King , after the order of Melchisedec ; only begotten , first born son . " Thus far for the preface on the subject of ...
... King , Jesus Christ , whose eternal generation who shall declare ! Ha Mashiach , the Lord's Anointed High Priest and King , after the order of Melchisedec ; only begotten , first born son . " Thus far for the preface on the subject of ...
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... King of Salem ; because , neither had he such a claim on the Jewish genealogies , as required by the Jews , so as to make him eligible to their priesthood , for they knew , or might have known , that Christ did not come of the Aa- ronic ...
... King of Salem ; because , neither had he such a claim on the Jewish genealogies , as required by the Jews , so as to make him eligible to their priesthood , for they knew , or might have known , that Christ did not come of the Aa- ronic ...
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Página 164 - And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom.
Página 149 - ... of his feet are still to be seen, and hurled his bolts among them till the whole were slaughtered, except the big bull, who presenting his forehead to the shafts, shook them off as they fell; but missing one at length, it wounded him in the side; whereon, springing round, he bounded over the Ohio, over the Wabash, the Illinois, and finally over the great lakes, where he is living at this day.
Página 144 - His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
Página 144 - Behold now Behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
Página 19 - Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
Página 23 - Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him, to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, (which is King of peace,) without father, without mother, without descent having neither beginning of days nor end of life ; but made like unto the Son of God, abideth a priest continually.
Página 149 - He may as well exist there now, as he did formerly where we find his bones. If he be a carnivorous animal, as some anatomists have conjectured, and the Indians affirm, his early retirement may be accounted for from the general destruction of the wild game by the Indians, which commences in the first instant of their connection with us, for the purpose of purchasing match-coats, hatchets, and fire-locks, with their skins.
Página 80 - He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered ? Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
Página 178 - The handle either of a small sword or a large knife, made of an elk's horn ; around the end where the blade had been inserted, was a ferule of silver, which, though black, was not much injured by time. Though the handle showed the hole where the blade had been inserted, yet no iron was found, but an oxyde remained of similar shape and size.
Página 42 - As for what is within the camp, it is set apart for tents, but the outward circumference hath the resemblance to a wall, and is adorned with towers at equal distances, where between the towers stand the engines for throwing arrows and darts, and for slinging stones, and where they lay all other engines that can annoy the enemy, all ready for their several operations. They also erect four gates, one at every side of the circumference, and those large enough for the entrance of the beasts, and wide...