The History of Ancient Europe: With a View of the Revolutions in Asia and Africa. In a Series of Letters to a Young Nobleman, Volume 1G.G.J and J. Robinson, 1793 - History, Ancient |
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... family , with his prey , he joins his companions in the fong and the dance " . As man is poffeffed of the focial ... ubi fup . 8. Hift . Gen. des Voyages , paffim . If favage man any where appears in a state of degradation , it is in ...
... family , with his prey , he joins his companions in the fong and the dance " . As man is poffeffed of the focial ... ubi fup . 8. Hift . Gen. des Voyages , paffim . If favage man any where appears in a state of degradation , it is in ...
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... ubi fup . ) Nor was this the only purpose these canals ferved : they pre- vented the lands from being deluged by the overflowing of the Eu- phrates ; which was annually fwelled , in the beginning of fummer , by the melting of fnows on ...
... ubi fup . ) Nor was this the only purpose these canals ferved : they pre- vented the lands from being deluged by the overflowing of the Eu- phrates ; which was annually fwelled , in the beginning of fummer , by the melting of fnows on ...
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... ubi fup . ) But we have the authority of Sacred Writ to affirm , that Nineveh and Babylon were founded in more early ... fup- ported by Herodotus , ( lib . i . cap . clxxxiv . ) and countenanced by an- other paffage in the fame venerable ...
... ubi fup . ) But we have the authority of Sacred Writ to affirm , that Nineveh and Babylon were founded in more early ... fup- ported by Herodotus , ( lib . i . cap . clxxxiv . ) and countenanced by an- other paffage in the fame venerable ...
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... fuperb temple cannot fail to awaken your Lordship's curiofity , to become ac- quainted with the religion and learning of ... ubi fup . Diodorus places in this dome , or aerial temple , three ftatues of prodigious weight and fize . But he ...
... fuperb temple cannot fail to awaken your Lordship's curiofity , to become ac- quainted with the religion and learning of ... ubi fup . Diodorus places in this dome , or aerial temple , three ftatues of prodigious weight and fize . But he ...
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... ubi fup . 46. Id ibid . I have forebore to relate the particulars of this expedi- tion ; because the detail is too extravagant to entitle it to historical cre- dibility . Yet ought we not to confider the exploits of Semiramis , or thofe ...
... ubi fup . 46. Id ibid . I have forebore to relate the particulars of this expedi- tion ; because the detail is too extravagant to entitle it to historical cre- dibility . Yet ought we not to confider the exploits of Semiramis , or thofe ...
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