The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery, Volum 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1833 |
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... earth , to mark the knowledge they obtained of one another , and the extent of their mutual acquaintance . The principal charm of savage life arises from the unlimited range which it allows over the face of nature . Those who have once ...
... earth , to mark the knowledge they obtained of one another , and the extent of their mutual acquaintance . The principal charm of savage life arises from the unlimited range which it allows over the face of nature . Those who have once ...
Side 2
... earth was enlarged by the dispersion of the human species . The family of Shem comprised the pastoral nations which were spread over the plains between the Euphrates and the shores of the Mediterranean , from Ararat to Arabia . The ...
... earth was enlarged by the dispersion of the human species . The family of Shem comprised the pastoral nations which were spread over the plains between the Euphrates and the shores of the Mediterranean , from Ararat to Arabia . The ...
Side 4
... earth , bears a sense which is well adapted to the numbers and the eminence of his descendants . The eldest of Japhet's sons was Gomer , who , Josephus tells us , was the father of the Celts . Magog , we must be content- ed to suppose ...
... earth , bears a sense which is well adapted to the numbers and the eminence of his descendants . The eldest of Japhet's sons was Gomer , who , Josephus tells us , was the father of the Celts . Magog , we must be content- ed to suppose ...
Side 5
... earth ; and we do not find in the prophetic . writings any trace of geogra- phical information much exceeding that which was possessed by Moses . Some , indeed , have imagined the Ophir of scrip- ture to mean Peru ; and the Tarshish ...
... earth ; and we do not find in the prophetic . writings any trace of geogra- phical information much exceeding that which was possessed by Moses . Some , indeed , have imagined the Ophir of scrip- ture to mean Peru ; and the Tarshish ...
Side 6
... earth . With Egypt and Arabia the early Hebrews were well acquaint- ed ; but towards the West their knowledge hardly reached as far as the shores of Greece . The cosmological ideas scattered through the scriptures are few in number ...
... earth . With Egypt and Arabia the early Hebrews were well acquaint- ed ; but towards the West their knowledge hardly reached as far as the shores of Greece . The cosmological ideas scattered through the scriptures are few in number ...
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