An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time, Tom 20T. Osborne, 1748 |
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Strona 5
... seems to have thoroughly fettled the point before us , yet , in one particular relating to the Scythian or Tartarian hiftory , he can scarce be deemed confiftent with himself . He ftrongly intimates , or rather di- • Univ . hift . ubi ...
... seems to have thoroughly fettled the point before us , yet , in one particular relating to the Scythian or Tartarian hiftory , he can scarce be deemed confiftent with himself . He ftrongly intimates , or rather di- • Univ . hift . ubi ...
Strona 7
... seem not to have been a people of any great figure at the time of that event . This amounts to a strong prefumption , that the tract about mount Caucafus , the Palus Maotis , Euxine and Cafpian feas , was then far from being replenished ...
... seem not to have been a people of any great figure at the time of that event . This amounts to a strong prefumption , that the tract about mount Caucafus , the Palus Maotis , Euxine and Cafpian feas , was then far from being replenished ...
Strona 9
... seem to have done fometimes among the Athenians , who , on certain occafions , used the word Tolotes or Scolotes , as equivalent to Scythians . It is no wonder , therefore , that the antient geographers fhould have extended the laft ...
... seem to have done fometimes among the Athenians , who , on certain occafions , used the word Tolotes or Scolotes , as equivalent to Scythians . It is no wonder , therefore , that the antient geographers fhould have extended the laft ...
Strona 12
... seem to have carried about with them , in their covered waggons , thofe fmall images repre- fenting certain gods held in great veneration by that people . For , that they roamed where they found the beft pafture for their flocks , as ...
... seem to have carried about with them , in their covered waggons , thofe fmall images repre- fenting certain gods held in great veneration by that people . For , that they roamed where they found the beft pafture for their flocks , as ...
Strona 13
... seem , therefore , that this people had not only an excellent fyftem of civil and religious inftitutions , but likewife a moft powerful motive to an obfervance of them . The hideous idols , that ferve at prefent for objects of adoration ...
... seem , therefore , that this people had not only an excellent fyftem of civil and religious inftitutions , but likewife a moft powerful motive to an obfervance of them . The hideous idols , that ferve at prefent for objects of adoration ...
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affift Affyrian Afia againſt Alexander alfo antient apud Arabia Arabs Armenia ARRIAN Bayer Befieged Bookfeller Cæfar Carthaginians character Chineſe chofen Chrift Chriftian confequently confiderable conquefts defcendents defcribed Defeated Diodorus Siculus Egypt Egyptians emperor empire faid fame feems fent fettled feven feveral fhould fince firft firſt fituate fome ftate fubdued fubjects fuccefs fuch fuppofed Gaul Greeks Herodotus hift hiftorian hiftory himſelf ibid ifland India Indians Jews Jofeph John Khan killed king kingdom laft leaft leaſt likewife Macedon Medes moft Moguls moſt muft muſt nations obferved occafion Oxon paff paffage Parthia Perfians perfon Pompey Porus prefent prince Ptolemy put to death racter reafon reign river Romans Rome Scythians ſeems Septuagint Sinic STRAB Syria Tartars thefe themſelves theſe thofe Thomas thoſe Trajan ubi fup ubi fupra uſed vaft viii Whence named whofe xvii xviii
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