A New System, or, An Analysis of Ancient Mythology: Volume 3
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Adams#: Adams 23.10 v.3 Folio Title: A new system, or, An analysis of ancient mythology : wherein an attempt is made to divest tradition of fable; and to reduce the truth to its original purity ...
Author: Bryant, Jacob
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Question. Is Ararat the highest?
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The number 8.
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King James's translation grossly and perniciously false, according to Bryant.
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Xenophon.
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Americans! Have a care. Form no schemes of universal empire. The Lord will always come down and defeat all such projects.
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See Dupuis.
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See Sir William Jones's Indian Bacchus.
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Success to etymology.
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See Milton and the Veda.
The commotion in heaven was anterior to this.
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I am glad to see an acknowledgement that Scripture is not infallibly inspired with method.
Ham offended. Canaan was cursed. Who has account for this?
This I believe without a doubt. But if I had first said it, I should have been called an impudent and insolent pedant.
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This controversy between Bochart and Bryant, two honest "searches," is delightful.
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This may be a just distinction.
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See Dupuis.
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See Dupuis.
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Vid. Dupuis.
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Admirable etymologist! But Question. Were not Hellenic letters more ancient than this writer supposes?
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The first Uranographia.
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Remarkable. Vid. Sir William Jones.
What resemblance between Napoleon and Alexander!
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Truly!
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Why not of Pythagoras or Solon, Lycurgus, Plato, Ocellus, Timaeus? Solomon exceeded them all.
All Cutheans for what I know.
Does he mean Nonnus?
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When did not dark uncertainty remain?
See Dupuis and Jones.
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Who is Dionysius? Is it Nonnus? Why conceal his name?
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But prospered, everywhere!
The Cuthites seem to be the chosen people.
Suidas is too modern.
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The legitimate sovereigns are all such shepherds of their people.
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See Dupuis.
Pantheism. Universe God.
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Well they might.
Sacred Chaldaic characters. Who knows?
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Fine verse.
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Etymology! How great are thy treasures!
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Very remarkable!
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Remarkable.
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Etymology again.
Voltaire calls them stupid blockheads, "Quoique on dise les Admirateurs des Pyramides."
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Nota bene.
Nota bene.
Oh! The mysteries of etymology!
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Truth.
See even the Catholic and classical priest, Eustace.
Question. See Dupuis.
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Blush! Voltaire! Your Pegasus was a wild horse. He ran away with you very often.
Grecian sages pupils of Egypt, perhaps of India.
Xenophon accuses Plato of always aping Egypt.
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A little like Voltaire. But his censure was universal: The Prophet's only particular.
Infatuation is the ruin of all men and all people.
History of all nations.
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A prophecy of common sense.
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Alas! poor human nature!
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These are the prophecies of common sense as well as of divine wisdom.
The ruin of divided people is a thing of course.
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Anarchy is always ruin.
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Feuds commonly end so.
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A shortcut.
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See Dupuis.
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Nota bene.
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This is indeed a curious passage.
And this also.
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Poor Jews!
Moses had more sense than all of them!
One deity, the sublimest, the profoundest of all philosophy, all religion! All policy, all manners!
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Blessings on etymology!
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Americans beware!
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See Farmer.
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Hebrew a Dialect of Chaldaic. See Jews against Voltaire.
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Language of gods, another of man.
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A kind of Goths and Vandals.
See Jones, Farmer, Dupuis, and Gebelin.
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He went about doing good, says Nonnus.
Question.
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See Dupuis.
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Etymology! Thy resources are inexhaustible.
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Why does he not explain these Petra? These caverns in rocks? And the mysteries?
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Oh! The mysteries of etymology!
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Poet Dionysius. Is this Nonnus?
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No.
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Notable indeed!
And to me too.
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Etymology! So deceitful!
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See Dupuis.
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Poor Grecians.
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How he laughs at the Greeks!
Luminous Etymology!
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The Greeks seem to have respected etymology as much as my friend Bryant.
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Ares, the Sun! How many names had the sun?
Oh! The revelations of etymology!
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Bravo! Plutarch!
Tombs. The infallibility of tombs! And why not of medals and coins?
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High altars! Ah! high altars! Pillars too! Ah pillars!
Statues too! When they came in fashion did not help the matter, nor pictures neither.
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All tombs may be misconstrued.
What circumstance in antiquity is not attended with some absurdity!
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Early indeed.
Etymology! Thou art a conjuror!
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Great family indeed!
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Cuthites all!
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New York is emulating them in 1817.
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See Eustace.
Stonehenge.
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Stonehenge.
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More sense than meets the eye! St. Peter's.
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And so have all priests!
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See Jones.
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See Jones and Asiatic researches.