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 2University Press, 1836 - 542 pages |
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... Greece : the common opinion propounded and re- jected . The Hellens were not the first inhabitants of Greece , but the Pelasgi . The large spread of them over the parts of Greece . XII . Of their language different from the Greeks ...
... Greece : the common opinion propounded and re- jected . The Hellens were not the first inhabitants of Greece , but the Pelasgi . The large spread of them over the parts of Greece . XII . Of their language different from the Greeks ...
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... Greece , who conversed most abroad in the world , did speak far more agreeably to the true account of things , than such who only endeavoured by their own wits to im- prove or correct those principles which were delivered by the other ...
... Greece , who conversed most abroad in the world , did speak far more agreeably to the true account of things , than such who only endeavoured by their own wits to im- prove or correct those principles which were delivered by the other ...
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... philosophy , and as to the origin of the universe , than any of the home- bred philosophers of Greece , or it may be , than any Hierogl . tom . iii . III . BOOK one of the nations he resorted to B 4 ORIGINES SACRE . 77.
... philosophy , and as to the origin of the universe , than any of the home- bred philosophers of Greece , or it may be , than any Hierogl . tom . iii . III . BOOK one of the nations he resorted to B 4 ORIGINES SACRE . 77.
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... Greece , but the Pelasgi . The large spread of them over the parts of Greece . XII . Of their language different from the Greeks . XIII . Whence these Pelasgi came ; that Phaleg was the Pelasgus of Greece , and the leader of that colony ...
... Greece , but the Pelasgi . The large spread of them over the parts of Greece . XII . Of their language different from the Greeks . XIII . Whence these Pelasgi came ; that Phaleg was the Pelasgus of Greece , and the leader of that colony ...
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... this very good reason : Polybius af- firms , there is no mountain in Greece which may not be ascended in a day's time , and makes the highest Voss . in lam , 1. v . & c . IV . mountain there not to exceed 10 furlongs ; 150 ORIGINES SACRE .
... this very good reason : Polybius af- firms , there is no mountain in Greece which may not be ascended in a day's time , and makes the highest Voss . in lam , 1. v . & c . IV . mountain there not to exceed 10 furlongs ; 150 ORIGINES SACRE .
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