| 1780 - 534 sivua
...aftonilhing revolutions in the world. By thcle records i: is that we live, as it were, in the very age when the world was created; we behold how it was governed in its infant (late; how overwhelmed by a deluge of water, and again peopled ; how kings and kingdoms have... | |
| 1809 - 536 sivua
...the events and revolutions wliich have occasioned • such astonishing changes in the world. By these records it is that we live, as it were, in the very...created ; we behold how it was governed in its infancy, when mankind were in their primitive state of infancy and simplicity ; we see the necessity people... | |
| 1809 - 540 sivua
...and revolutions wliich have occasioned such astonishing changes in the world. By these r. • cords it is that we live, as it were, in the very time when the world was created; we behold how it vas «.'<verned in its infancy, when mankirJ were in their primitive state of infancy and simplicity... | |
| Massachusetts Historical Society - 1897 - 554 sivua
...cogitations are acted) give us whereof to guess at the rest. . . . By [history] ... it is, that we live in the very time when [the world] was created ; we behold how it was governed ; how it was covered with waters, and again repeopled ; how kings and kingdoms have flourished and... | |
| Barrett Wendell - 1904 - 378 sivua
...triumphed over time, which, besides it, nothing but eternity hath triumphed over. . . . By it we live in the very time when (the world) was created; we behold how it was governed; how it was covered with waters and again re-peopled; how kings and kingdoms have flourished and fallen;... | |
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