Remains of Japhet: Being Historical Enquiries Into the Affinity and Origin of the European Languagesauthor: and sold, 1767 - 419 pages |
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... ages ; and this method appeared , all along , to be the most likely to arrive at the wifhed - for haven , in this research into very high antiquity , as well as less perplexed , and consequently more easily understood , than any other ...
... ages ; and this method appeared , all along , to be the most likely to arrive at the wifhed - for haven , in this research into very high antiquity , as well as less perplexed , and consequently more easily understood , than any other ...
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... these fons were about that age in their degrees . Now these men must have been verfed in all the knowledge and arts that were practised in the antidi- luvian I luvian world , as well as in the geography of 2 CHAP . I. THE REMAINS.
... these fons were about that age in their degrees . Now these men must have been verfed in all the knowledge and arts that were practised in the antidi- luvian I luvian world , as well as in the geography of 2 CHAP . I. THE REMAINS.
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... age of thirty - five , and begat his first born ; and afterwards all that line , as well as their fons , began to get children at about the age of thirty down to Terah , Abram's father ; and even he was but Leventy seventy when he begat ...
... age of thirty - five , and begat his first born ; and afterwards all that line , as well as their fons , began to get children at about the age of thirty down to Terah , Abram's father ; and even he was but Leventy seventy when he begat ...
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... ages , begetting fons and daughters after those children mentioned in Scripture to have been first born . THE ufe I would make of this observation is , by the bye , to ftrengthen what I had before hinted ( as I would omit nothing that I ...
... ages , begetting fons and daughters after those children mentioned in Scripture to have been first born . THE ufe I would make of this observation is , by the bye , to ftrengthen what I had before hinted ( as I would omit nothing that I ...
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... and his feed in after ages . It fully and clearly appears , from Genefis x . that when the grandchildren of Noah were increased , he ordered their divifion and dwelling places according to his own discretion their CHAP . I. 7 OF JAPHET .
... and his feed in after ages . It fully and clearly appears , from Genefis x . that when the grandchildren of Noah were increased , he ordered their divifion and dwelling places according to his own discretion their CHAP . I. 7 OF JAPHET .
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 4 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 32 - Gomer and all his bands: the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands, and many people with thee.
Page 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.