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... 3 ) after assigning an eternity of Existance to Vulcan , it claims a period of time for the reign of the kings of Egypt from Sol the son of Vulcan , to the thirtieth Tanite dynasty , of about forty thousand years . Similar remote ...
... 3 ) after assigning an eternity of Existance to Vulcan , it claims a period of time for the reign of the kings of Egypt from Sol the son of Vulcan , to the thirtieth Tanite dynasty , of about forty thousand years . Similar remote ...
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... hundred and seventy three thousand years , since they first began to observe the stars . " Now , says the antiquarian , ( not all antiquarians.— for many , in their researches into the regions of remote antiquity , have come to a ...
... hundred and seventy three thousand years , since they first began to observe the stars . " Now , says the antiquarian , ( not all antiquarians.— for many , in their researches into the regions of remote antiquity , have come to a ...
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... hundred and three years ; and thus he makes them to have lived some " ten , twelve , thirteen , and eighteen Sari , the last of which life amounted to ten thousand , eight hundred and fifty four years . ' 2 193 Similar to the above are ...
... hundred and three years ; and thus he makes them to have lived some " ten , twelve , thirteen , and eighteen Sari , the last of which life amounted to ten thousand , eight hundred and fifty four years . ' 2 193 Similar to the above are ...
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... thousand three hundred years ; " the learned Shuckford on the other , labors to reconcile the conflicting and often contradictory state- ments with which the writings of the above named an- cient authors abound , with the actual ...
... thousand three hundred years ; " the learned Shuckford on the other , labors to reconcile the conflicting and often contradictory state- ments with which the writings of the above named an- cient authors abound , with the actual ...
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... three hundred years , Thales , Pythagorus , and Aristotle only can be named ; and it is remarkable , that even they did not invent that part of their philos- ophy of which I am treating , but travelled for it , and collected it from the ...
... three hundred years , Thales , Pythagorus , and Aristotle only can be named ; and it is remarkable , that even they did not invent that part of their philos- ophy of which I am treating , but travelled for it , and collected it from the ...
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