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Page 642
... Herodotus to the later authorities , Diodorus , Eusebius , & c . , reduces Egyptian chronology within rather nar- row limits . To judge of the dependence to be placed on Greek dates , we must consider some facts in their early history ...
... Herodotus to the later authorities , Diodorus , Eusebius , & c . , reduces Egyptian chronology within rather nar- row limits . To judge of the dependence to be placed on Greek dates , we must consider some facts in their early history ...
Page 643
... Herodotus . But whatever refers to occurrences before that date , must be received as very uncertain , having seldom any support of cotemporary respectable evidence . Moderns may indeed talk of the concurrent testimony of ancient ...
... Herodotus . But whatever refers to occurrences before that date , must be received as very uncertain , having seldom any support of cotemporary respectable evidence . Moderns may indeed talk of the concurrent testimony of ancient ...
Page 646
... Herodotus , Diodorus Siculus , Pausanias , and especially Cicero , ' who devoted much time and attention to the subject , have all ' left this as their decided opinion . ' We seem to be carried back two centuries , on reading such ...
... Herodotus , Diodorus Siculus , Pausanias , and especially Cicero , ' who devoted much time and attention to the subject , have all ' left this as their decided opinion . ' We seem to be carried back two centuries , on reading such ...
Page 647
... Herodotus ; finally , this Sesostris is the Shishak named in the books of Kings and Chronicles . Ergo , the Grecian Jupiter is only a certain Egyptian king , who patronized Jeroboam , invaded the country of Rehoboam , and carried away ...
... Herodotus ; finally , this Sesostris is the Shishak named in the books of Kings and Chronicles . Ergo , the Grecian Jupiter is only a certain Egyptian king , who patronized Jeroboam , invaded the country of Rehoboam , and carried away ...
Page 649
... . Crosth- waite is really right , in contending with Sir Isaac Newton ( but against all our most celebrated antiquaries ) , that the Sesostris of * Herodotus is the Shishak of the Scripture . Not Crosthwaite's Synchronology . 649.
... . Crosth- waite is really right , in contending with Sir Isaac Newton ( but against all our most celebrated antiquaries ) , that the Sesostris of * Herodotus is the Shishak of the Scripture . Not Crosthwaite's Synchronology . 649.
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