Coins, medals, and seals, ancient and modern. Illustrated and described. With a sketch of the history of coins and coinage, instructions for young collectors, tables of comparative rarity, price lists of English and American coins, medals and tokens, &c., &c (1861)
Prime, William Cowper, 1825-1905 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 22
the world was depopulated by a deluge, which only onefamily survived. Naturally we should suppose that the arts andsciences would progress with more rapidity, from the fact thatthis family possessed in themselves the learning and a great dealof the experience of the previous ages, in which men had… … CONFIRMATION OF SACRED WEIT. later than this flood. Let us record the fact, in spite of all thatmen have sought to establish to the contrary, that no one hasfound a relic of human existence on earth which antedates theperiod of the Noahic deluge. Bunsen has indeed founded a theoryon the discovery…
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