The history of the world

Sir Walter Raleigh

The University Press, 1829

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THE PREFACE P ilxiv	i

Of the creation and preservation of the world	1

That the substance of the waters as mixed in the body	8

Of the light created as the material substance of	14

Of the firmament and of the waters above the firma	21

Sect XI Of fate and that the stars have great influence	27

Of Prescience	33

CHAP II	42

Of sundry particulars touching the ark as the place	209

That the ark rested upon part of the hill Taurus or Cau	217

The third argument from the wonderful resistance which	223

the vine must grow naturally near	234

Of the contrary situation of Armenia to the place noted	240

CHAP VIII	247

Of Gog and Magog Tubal and Mesech seated first	260

Against the fabulous Berosuss fiction that the Italian	268

Of the intellectual mind of man in which there is much	48

and that the care thereof	54

Of the free power which man had in his first creation	62

That there was a true local paradise eastward in	68

Why it should be needful to intreat diligently of	75

That paradise was not the whole earth as some have	82

Of their opinion which make paradise as high as	84

Of the change of the names of places and that	90

Of divers other testimonies of the land of Eden	100

Of the difficulty in the text which seemeth to make	106

and	117

A conclusion by way of repetition of some things	126

Of Becanuss not unwitty allegorizing of the story	134

Of the diversities in the ages of the patriarchs when	147

men of huge bodies as also divers in latter times	159

That from the relics of ancient records among	165

Of Cham and other wicked ones whereof some got	178

That heathenism and Judaism after many wounds	184

Of Gods forewarning and some human testimonies	187

Of Deucalions flood and that this was not Noahs	193

That the flood of Noah was supernatural though some	202

Of Javan the fourth son of Japhet and of Mesch	274

Of the four sons of Javan and of the double significa	281

A dispute against the tale of Josephus	288

A further exposition of the place Isaiah xviii 1	296

Of some other reasons against the opinion of Pererius	303

Of the words of Moses Gen x verse the last whereupon	305

Of Sini and Arvadi	311

Josephuss opinion of Dedan one of the issue of Chush	317

Of the issue of	323

Of the sons of Joctan the other son of Heber	331

Of Havilah the son of Joctan who also passed into	337

tempered with laws	339

Of the good government of the first kings	347

That Nimrod Belus and Ninus were three distinct per	354

Of the acts of Nimrod and Belus as far as now they	365

Of the wars of Ninus and lastly of his war against	376

That the good knowledge in the ancient magic is	390

That Daniels misliking Nabuchodonosors condemning	393

Of divers ways by which the Devil seemeth to work	399

Of the end of Ninus and beginning of Semiramiss	406

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Título	The history of the world Volumen2 de The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt, Sir Walter Raleigh Volumen2 de The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Now First Collected to which are Prefixed The Lives of the Author, by Oldys and Birch, Sir Walter Raleigh Volumen2 de The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Now First Collected, Sir Walter Raleigh
Autor	Sir Walter Raleigh
Editor	The University Press, 1829
Procedencia del original	Universidad de Michigan
Digitalizado	12 Mar 2008

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