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... king , " impatient of further delay , desired to know the reason of it . ' O king , said Thales , be not astonished that I defer my answer . It is a question in which my insufficient reason is lost . The oftener I ask myself , what is ...
... king , " impatient of further delay , desired to know the reason of it . ' O king , said Thales , be not astonished that I defer my answer . It is a question in which my insufficient reason is lost . The oftener I ask myself , what is ...
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... king what God is ! The meanest Christian " says he , " knows more than this . " " The things of God knoweth no man , " only as revealed by " the Spirit of God . " 1 Nor can I illustrate this point more pertinently and forcibly , than by ...
... king what God is ! The meanest Christian " says he , " knows more than this . " " The things of God knoweth no man , " only as revealed by " the Spirit of God . " 1 Nor can I illustrate this point more pertinently and forcibly , than by ...
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... kings of Egypt from Sol the son of Vulcan , to the thirtieth Tanite dynasty , of about forty thousand years . Similar remote antiquity has been ascribed to the Chinese records , but without foundation . 5 The Persian accounts of their ...
... kings of Egypt from Sol the son of Vulcan , to the thirtieth Tanite dynasty , of about forty thousand years . Similar remote antiquity has been ascribed to the Chinese records , but without foundation . 5 The Persian accounts of their ...
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... king of all Egypt , and the Cabiri made memoirs of these transactions . " 2 Now , of these , and the like records of ante - diluvian an- tiquity , we remark , first , that , in their uncorrupted state , they " left accounts very ...
... king of all Egypt , and the Cabiri made memoirs of these transactions . " 2 Now , of these , and the like records of ante - diluvian an- tiquity , we remark , first , that , in their uncorrupted state , they " left accounts very ...
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... kings of Berosus , with the acknowledged longevity of the patriarchs as fur- nished by Moses . This writer computes each year of the Chaldean kings by a " Sarus , " each of which is equal to six hundred and three years ; and thus he ...
... kings of Berosus , with the acknowledged longevity of the patriarchs as fur- nished by Moses . This writer computes each year of the Chaldean kings by a " Sarus , " each of which is equal to six hundred and three years ; and thus he ...
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