Origines Sacrae Or a Rational Account of the Grounds of Natural and Revealed Religion: To which is Added Part of Another Book Upon the Same Subject, Left Unfinished by the Author : Together with a Letter to a Deist, Volume 2 |
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Page 213
That the memory of Joseph in Egypt CHAP . was preserved under the Egyptian
Apis , hath been shewed with a great deal ... The greatness of the benefit which
the Egyptians received by Joseph ; which was of that nature that it could not
easily ...
That the memory of Joseph in Egypt CHAP . was preserved under the Egyptian
Apis , hath been shewed with a great deal ... The greatness of the benefit which
the Egyptians received by Joseph ; which was of that nature that it could not
easily ...
Page 260
... Cadmus , Danaus , and Erechtheus ; and it is very probable that they carried
the Egyptian superstitions along with them : but the person who is pretended to
have settled religion among the Greeks was Orpheus ; who is said to have
reduced ...
... Cadmus , Danaus , and Erechtheus ; and it is very probable that they carried
the Egyptian superstitions along with them : but the person who is pretended to
have settled religion among the Greeks was Orpheus ; who is said to have
reduced ...
Page 265
But some in our age are so fond of the Egyptians , that they will by all means
make the immortality of souls to be a noble invention of theirs : Nobilissimum
Canon . + Chron . autem eorum inventum fuit immortalitas animæ . What . is the ...
But some in our age are so fond of the Egyptians , that they will by all means
make the immortality of souls to be a noble invention of theirs : Nobilissimum
Canon . + Chron . autem eorum inventum fuit immortalitas animæ . What . is the ...
Page 266
So that these philosophers ' opinion was very different from the Egyptians . But
whence came the most ancient philosophers to hold the immortality of souls ?
Had they it from the Egyptians ? Plutarch saith , that Thales was the first ; not that
...
So that these philosophers ' opinion was very different from the Egyptians . But
whence came the most ancient philosophers to hold the immortality of souls ?
Had they it from the Egyptians ? Plutarch saith , that Thales was the first ; not that
...
Page 278
But , in the first place , we have nothing but the testimony of these Egyptians for
the original truth of this ; who brought it as an argument to justify theiv own
hypothesis . And from them other writers have Ovid . Me - taken it , without
examining ...
But , in the first place , we have nothing but the testimony of these Egyptians for
the original truth of this ; who brought it as an argument to justify theiv own
hypothesis . And from them other writers have Ovid . Me - taken it , without
examining ...
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