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... ¯gyptians ; or , as others write , he had been auditor of Hippafus a Pythagorean , who held the fame notion of fire , and might have derived it from Egypt by his mafter Pythagoras , who had travelled into Egypt , and been instructed by ...
... ¯gyptians ; or , as others write , he had been auditor of Hippafus a Pythagorean , who held the fame notion of fire , and might have derived it from Egypt by his mafter Pythagoras , who had travelled into Egypt , and been instructed by ...
Page 84
... ¯gyptians . The Zabii or Sa- beans are also known to have been worshippers of fire . It appears too from the Chald¿an ora- cles , that fire was regarded as divine by the fages of that nation . And it is fuppofed that Ur of the Chald¿ans ...
... ¯gyptians . The Zabii or Sa- beans are also known to have been worshippers of fire . It appears too from the Chald¿an ora- cles , that fire was regarded as divine by the fages of that nation . And it is fuppofed that Ur of the Chald¿ans ...
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... ¯gyptians , who imperfonated nature , had made her a diftinct principle , and even deified her under the name of Ifis . But Ofiris was under- stood to be mind or reafon , chief and fovereign of all . Ofiris , if we may believe Plutarch ...
... ¯gyptians , who imperfonated nature , had made her a diftinct principle , and even deified her under the name of Ifis . But Ofiris was under- stood to be mind or reafon , chief and fovereign of all . Ofiris , if we may believe Plutarch ...
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... ¯gyptians . This notion was embraced by divers philofophers of Greece , who may be fuppofed to have derived it from the fame fource from whence many of their other opinions were drawn . 270. The doctrine of real abfolute external fpace ...
... ¯gyptians . This notion was embraced by divers philofophers of Greece , who may be fuppofed to have derived it from the fame fource from whence many of their other opinions were drawn . 270. The doctrine of real abfolute external fpace ...
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... ¯gyptian doc- trine , it is indeed afferted in the Pimander , that all things are produced by fate . But Jamblichus ... ¯gyptians thought all things did par- take of life . This opinion was alfo fo general and current among the Greeks ...
... ¯gyptian doc- trine , it is indeed afferted in the Pimander , that all things are produced by fate . But Jamblichus ... ¯gyptians thought all things did par- take of life . This opinion was alfo fo general and current among the Greeks ...
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