Blair's Outlines of Ancient History
by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (9781150042454)

Subtitle: On a New Plan, Embracing Biographical Notices of Illustrious Persons, Generalviews of the Geography, Population, Politics, Religion, Military and Naval Affairs, Arts, Literature, Manners, Customs, and Society of Ancient Nations, a Chronological Table, and a Dictionary of Proper Names That Occur in the Work General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1827 Original Publisher: S.G. Goodrich Subjects: History, Ancient Chronology, Historical History / Ancient / General History / Ancient / Greece History / Reference History / World Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Ancient Social Science / Archaeology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PERIOD I. THE ANTEDILUVIAN PERIOD, EXTENDING FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD, 4004 YEARS B. C. TO THE DELUGE, 234S YEARS B. C. The Bible affords the only authentic history of the first ages of the world. The events which it relates of those ages, are confirmed by the appearances of nature, and by legendary tradition. Sect. 1. All human records agree that men and empires first appeared in the East. There, those demigods and heroes, who are the subjects of heathen fable, are represented as having lived and acted. When, therefore, the Bible points to that quarter of the globe, as the cradle of nations and of the arts, and as the theatre of the most wonderful events, it only coincides with the general belief of mankind on this subject. The account contained in that sacred book respecting the Creation of the world, or the beginning of time, is equally worthy of credit. This, of course, is the first grand event, which history presents to us. The cosmogonies of nations, that is, the schemes they have adopted respecting the formation of the worl...

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