Origines: Or, Remarks on the Origin of Several Empires, States and Cities, Band 1A. J. Valpy, 1824 |
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Abraham according ancient Persians appears appellation Arabians Arabic Ararat Armenia Asia Assyrian empire Babylon Babylonians Bactra bank believe Belitaras Belus Berosus Bochart calculation called capital of Chaldea Castor Cephalion Chaldaic Chaldeans Chalonitis CHAPTER Christian æra chronological consider corruption Ctesias deluge denominated descendants dialect Diodorus Siculus doubt duration dynasty etymology Euphrates Eusebius existed fable founded Gem-Shid given Greeks Hebrew Herodotus improbable inhabitants Iran Iranian Josephus Julius Africanus King language Lycus Medes mentioned miles modern Persians Mohsin monarch Mosul mountains Nimrod Nineveh Ninus Ninyas Noach number of reigns opposite to Mosul Oriental Orientalists Orig origin Pehlvi period plain Pliny Polyhistor Prince probably provinces Ptolemy reader reckoned rian river sacred historian Sardanapalus sars says seems Semiramis Sethos Shem Shinar signifies situated speak Strabo supposed Syncellus Syrians throne Tigris tion tower of Babel Velleius Paterculus word writers Xenophon Yezdanians Zohak καὶ
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Seite 151 - Piolemy, on the north by part of Armenia and Mount Niphates ; on the west by the Tigris ; on the south by Susiana ; and on the east by part of Media and the mountains Choatra and Zagros. The country within these limits is called by some of the ancients Adiabene, and by others Aturia or Atyria.
Seite 194 - Art thou better than No-amon, that was situate among the rivers, That had the waters round about her ; Whose rampart was the sea, And her wall was of the sea? Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite...
Seite 90 - Resen ; but began to construct a tower of such vast dimensions, that they proposed it should reach to heaven. The sacred historian tells us, that the descendants of Noach built all these cities, and that Babel was the beginning of Nimrod's kingdom ; but he assigns no date to the foundation either of the kingdom, or of the cities.
Seite 96 - after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, and after their nations.
Seite 102 - ... regular armies were maintained; mankind already witnessed the pomp of courts, and the luxury of individuals...
Seite 85 - Now the words yiXH t*3 appear to me wrongly translated ; ' and I would rather render them, all the land ; because I think it clear, that the sacred writer only meant the country in which the plain of Shinar was situated. It can be shown from the Bible itself, that the language spoken by mankind ' before the flood was Hebrew...
Seite 191 - Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women : the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies : the fire shall devour thy bars.
Seite 218 - ... loves of the son of Apollo and of the Goddess Derceto, or whether she were the daughter of the shepherd Simma, her beauty and her talents sufficiently account for the good fortune which attended her. Menones, the Governor of Syria, smitten with the charms of her person, had not disdained to espouse an humble shepherdess; and, -soon convinced of the superiority of her judgment to his own, he asked and followed her advice upon every occasion. After his death, when seated on the first throne of...
Seite 83 - Cerberus, he considers himself quite safe in proceeding, and, therefore, goes on to explain his notions, in which, of course, there " is nothing of the spirit of scepticism : " Various considerations induce me to believe, that the general dispersion of the descendants of Noach took place ages before the building of the tower of Babel ; and that the contrary opinion is not supported by the authority of the sacred historian. I shall submit the following remarks to the judgment of the reader : It cannot,...
Seite ix - In questions unconnected with sacred and important interests, men are rarely very anx ious to discriminate exactly between truth and fiction; and few of us would, probably, be much pleased with the result, could it now be certainly proved that Troy never existed, and that Thebes, with its hundred gates, was no more than a populous village. It is perhaps still with a secret wish to be convinced against our judgment, that we reject as fables the stories told us of the Orecian Hercules, or of the Persian...