A Dissertation on the Languages, Literature, and Manners of Eastern Nations: Originally Prefixed to a Dictionary, Persian, Arabic, and EnglishPrinted at the Clarendon Press, 1778 - 288 Seiten |
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... equally improbable , that men of genius fhould have preferred this rude idiom to the polished Deri ; as to fuppofe a Voltaire to have written in the Bas Breton ; or an Addifon in the most rug- ged of our county dialects . ' f THE Deri ...
... equally improbable , that men of genius fhould have preferred this rude idiom to the polished Deri ; as to fuppofe a Voltaire to have written in the Bas Breton ; or an Addifon in the most rug- ged of our county dialects . ' f THE Deri ...
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... equally rapid as complete . The numerous Arabian tribes Mohammed , by various means , converted to his faith , or fubjected to his power ; but died before any impreffion was made upon the adjacent states . Abubeker led the way to ...
... equally rapid as complete . The numerous Arabian tribes Mohammed , by various means , converted to his faith , or fubjected to his power ; but died before any impreffion was made upon the adjacent states . Abubeker led the way to ...
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... equally careful in avoiding all offence . From Arrian we learn , that Alexander facrificed to the Babylonish gods and other Afiatic deities , though then unknown in Greece : and we are told by Pliny , that the firft endeavour of the ...
... equally careful in avoiding all offence . From Arrian we learn , that Alexander facrificed to the Babylonish gods and other Afiatic deities , though then unknown in Greece : and we are told by Pliny , that the firft endeavour of the ...
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... equally revering the un- avoidable weakneffes of human frailty . SYSTEMATIC writers , upon the actions of mankind , however ingenious and learned , are ever to be read with caution . Man , in the aggregate , is too irregular to be ...
... equally revering the un- avoidable weakneffes of human frailty . SYSTEMATIC writers , upon the actions of mankind , however ingenious and learned , are ever to be read with caution . Man , in the aggregate , is too irregular to be ...
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... Magus , and the fucceffion of Darius , the fon of Hyftafpes , by the neighing of his horse , are to the Perfians circumstances equally unknown as the numerous affaffina- tions recorded by the Greeks . Not a veftige is D 2 DISSERTATION . 51.
... Magus , and the fucceffion of Darius , the fon of Hyftafpes , by the neighing of his horse , are to the Perfians circumstances equally unknown as the numerous affaffina- tions recorded by the Greeks . Not a veftige is D 2 DISSERTATION . 51.
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Seite 412 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth : and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Seite 303 - Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.
Seite 306 - Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, the Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth ; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Seite 435 - Look ye, gentlemen, cries Peter in a rage, to convince you what a couple of blind, positive, ignorant, wilful puppies you are, I will use but this plain argument; by G — , it is true, good, natural mutton as any in Leadenhall market ; and G — confound you both eternally, if you offer to believe otherwise.
Seite 422 - All this, he says, was an allegorical description of nature. For the whole universe consisting of moisture, and animals being continually generated therein; the deity...
Seite 422 - Pluto, divided the darkness, and separated the heavens from the earth, and reduced the universe to order. But the animals so recently created, not being able to bear the prevalence of light, died.
Seite 421 - They had one body but two heads: the one that of a man, the other of a woman: and likewise in their several organs both male and female. Other human figures were to be seen with the legs and horns of goats: some had horses...
Seite 54 - Numerous as the fands on the more," is an idea which, in all times, has been annexed to defeated armies : and the Grecian writers, to dignify their country, may have turned the hyperbole into hiftoric fact ; and fwelled the Thoufands of the Perfian Satrap into the Millions of the Perfian King.
Seite 382 - But they had efcaped better, if ,the moft fafhionable of the French poets had not, at the fame time, been their beft critic. A LUCKY word in a verfe, which founds well and every body gets by heart, goes further than a volume of juft...
Seite 293 - which they had neither feen, nor heard, nor received " upon the authority of another perfon : proceeding " merely upon this principle, that they fhould be moil " likely to pleafe people's fancy, by having recourfe to