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Strona ix
... according to the calculation of the former , he wrote fix hundred and feventy - five years before the Trojan war , and , according to that of the latter , two hundred and feventy - five years before that æra . His history , as well as ...
... according to the calculation of the former , he wrote fix hundred and feventy - five years before the Trojan war , and , according to that of the latter , two hundred and feventy - five years before that æra . His history , as well as ...
Strona x
... according to Athenæus and Suidas , according to others , a native of Berytus , is faid by Por- phyry the philofopher " , Eufebius , and Theodoret , to have lived about the time of the Trojan war ; whence Bochart , Huetius , and others ...
... according to Athenæus and Suidas , according to others , a native of Berytus , is faid by Por- phyry the philofopher " , Eufebius , and Theodoret , to have lived about the time of the Trojan war ; whence Bochart , Huetius , and others ...
Strona xxviii
... according to our computation , and 747 years before Chrift ; which fhews the kingdom of Babylon to have been immediately of Affyrian origin , according to the prophet : Behold , the land of the Chaldæans ; this people was not till the ...
... according to our computation , and 747 years before Chrift ; which fhews the kingdom of Babylon to have been immediately of Affyrian origin , according to the prophet : Behold , the land of the Chaldæans ; this people was not till the ...
Strona xxxii
... according to the different views of the fpectators . Imagination , prejudice , and partiality , often fet a byas on mens understandings ; and hence arife all thofe variations we find in the writings which have ferved as memoirs to the ...
... according to the different views of the fpectators . Imagination , prejudice , and partiality , often fet a byas on mens understandings ; and hence arife all thofe variations we find in the writings which have ferved as memoirs to the ...
Strona xlix
... According to our Proportion of Gold to Silver There were likewife the Stater Cyzicenus , exchang- ing for 28 Attic Drachms , or , Stater Philippicus , and Stater Alexandrinus , of the Same Value exchang- } 1. s . d . 16 1 I 0 9 18 I ...
... According to our Proportion of Gold to Silver There were likewife the Stater Cyzicenus , exchang- ing for 28 Attic Drachms , or , Stater Philippicus , and Stater Alexandrinus , of the Same Value exchang- } 1. s . d . 16 1 I 0 9 18 I ...
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