The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery, Volum 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1833 |
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Side 5
... says , " were from Mesha , as thou goest unto Se- phar , a mount of the East . " This Sephar may possibly be the first range of the snowy mountains of Paropamisus , called also Sepyrrus by the ancients . But that the accurate knowledge ...
... says , " were from Mesha , as thou goest unto Se- phar , a mount of the East . " This Sephar may possibly be the first range of the snowy mountains of Paropamisus , called also Sepyrrus by the ancients . But that the accurate knowledge ...
Side 6
... says , " Whereupon are the foundations of the earth fastened ? or , who laid the corner - stone thereof ? or , who shut up the sea with doors ( boundaries ) ; when it brake forth , as if it had issued out of the womb ; when I made the ...
... says , " Whereupon are the foundations of the earth fastened ? or , who laid the corner - stone thereof ? or , who shut up the sea with doors ( boundaries ) ; when it brake forth , as if it had issued out of the womb ; when I made the ...
Side 8
... says , " Javan , Tubal , and Me- shech were thy merchants : they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market . " The nature of the mo- tives which actuated the Greeks in their earliest naval enter- prises is ...
... says , " Javan , Tubal , and Me- shech were thy merchants : they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market . " The nature of the mo- tives which actuated the Greeks in their earliest naval enter- prises is ...
Side 10
... says , it is much more likely that there was something in the religious habits and doctrines of those Asiatic tribes which compelled the veneration of the Greeks . The fame of Egypt offered the poet a fertile theme . He celebrates the ...
... says , it is much more likely that there was something in the religious habits and doctrines of those Asiatic tribes which compelled the veneration of the Greeks . The fame of Egypt offered the poet a fertile theme . He celebrates the ...
Side 12
... says that he reached even the uttermost bounds of the ocean . But what business have chart and compass in the ocean ... say , it is wholly derived from myths and traditions , without the slightest reference to dis- tance or local details ...
... says that he reached even the uttermost bounds of the ocean . But what business have chart and compass in the ocean ... say , it is wholly derived from myths and traditions , without the slightest reference to dis- tance or local details ...
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