Gleanings of antiquities / By John Beaumont, Gent.

  • Beaumont, John, -1731.
Date:
1724
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Credit: Gleanings of antiquities / By John Beaumont, Gent. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    {IJI ) DISCOURSE OF THE l ' ORACLES Deliver'd at Delphos, and the other Temples of the G E N- Tiles; and of the Cejfa- tion of them, both among the Jews and Gentiles, HERE is this Difference betwixt the Oracles delivered at the Temples of the Gentiles, and the Oracles of the Sibylsa that the former chiefly regarding Human Affairs, belonging to the Happinefs of this Life, predicted the good and evil Succefies of fu¬ ture Things, And we feldom find in Hiftory that S a fife