A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With Reflections on Atheistical Philosophy, Now Exemplified in France. By Richard Joseph Sulivan, ...T. Becket, 1794 |
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Pagina 186
... Strabo , likewise speak of them as of a great people of antiquity . " The At- lantides , " says Diodorus Siculus , " inhabit a mari- time and most fertile country . They differ from their neighbours in their great piety towards the gods ...
... Strabo , likewise speak of them as of a great people of antiquity . " The At- lantides , " says Diodorus Siculus , " inhabit a mari- time and most fertile country . They differ from their neighbours in their great piety towards the gods ...
Pagina 188
... is not sufficient to confine us to that ocean . Strabo and Diodorus place Arabia on the shores of the Atlantic . Plutarch says , that Ogygia was a five * Gebelin . five days voyage to the westward of Great Bri- tain 188 LETTER LXVII .
... is not sufficient to confine us to that ocean . Strabo and Diodorus place Arabia on the shores of the Atlantic . Plutarch says , that Ogygia was a five * Gebelin . five days voyage to the westward of Great Bri- tain 188 LETTER LXVII .
Pagina 216
... Strabo says , " The ocean broke down the land which had joined Africa to Europe , and had rushed over ancient countries . " Diodorus Siculus , and Livy , both say the same thing . Why then , when we have good physical reason to suppose ...
... Strabo says , " The ocean broke down the land which had joined Africa to Europe , and had rushed over ancient countries . " Diodorus Siculus , and Livy , both say the same thing . Why then , when we have good physical reason to suppose ...
Pagina 273
... to explain the meaning of this curious fragment . The epoch of the Sia- mese tables corresponds to the 21st of March , A. D. VOL . IV . S Strabo , ❜ A. D. 638. Another set of tables was trans- mitted LETTER LXIX 273.
... to explain the meaning of this curious fragment . The epoch of the Sia- mese tables corresponds to the 21st of March , A. D. VOL . IV . S Strabo , ❜ A. D. 638. Another set of tables was trans- mitted LETTER LXIX 273.
Pagina 286
... Strabo informs us , that , in India , philosophers were looked upon with the greatest esteem , Diodorus Siculus says the same . Megasthenes expressly assures us , that all the doctrines of physics were cultivated by the Brahmans of In ...
... Strabo informs us , that , in India , philosophers were looked upon with the greatest esteem , Diodorus Siculus says the same . Megasthenes expressly assures us , that all the doctrines of physics were cultivated by the Brahmans of In ...
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