Tables of ancient coins, weights and measures, explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations (1727)
Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735, Arbuthnot, Charles, d. 1731 · London : Printed for J. Tonson · leaf 18
be difcovered, as thofeof other Arts. As it is ufual in difcourfes of this nature to as-cend as high as poffible, we fhall acquaint theReader that the Inventot of Money was by (bmeJem^ifi Writers beHeved to be Cairiy Adams eldefl fbn, to whom^Jofephus afcribes it: this Author tells you that Cain… … 5(!.yf=^r^<S^5iSKS)-^ SS? Tables of Ancient Coins, any fort of poflefTion as well as money.) If arguments a fojleriorewere to be ufed in this ca{e, I fhould be very apt to give Cainthe honour of the Invention; were he now aUve, Im fure itwould rejoice his foul to (cc what mifchief it had made…
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