The Sacred History of the World: As Displayed in the Creation and Subsequent Events to the Deluge, Attempted to be Philosophically Considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son, Volume 2Harper, 1835 - Creation |
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Adam and Eve agencies ancient animals appear appointed Arabian Arabs arise beautiful become Bedouin birds body called cause Cecrops character Cicero civilized continued creation Creator cultivated Deity deluge descendants Deucalion diluvian divine earth Edom effect Egypt Egyptian Esau excite existence external fact father feelings female globe gneiss Grecian Greece habits happy Hesiod human nature human race ideas impressions improvement individual infer inhabitants intellectual intelligent Ishmael islands Jewish Josephus kind knowledge land laws living males mankind means mentions miles mind Mizraim moral mountains nations never ocean operation opinions ourselves peculiar perceive perfect Phenicians Plato pleasure Plutarch population portion present principle produce quadrupeds reason regions remarks result rocks sacred history says sensations sensibilities Socrates soil soul spirit square miles Strabo subsistence surface Syria things thou thought tion tribes truth universal vegetation vols