The Antiquity of China Or an Historical Essay: Endeavouring a Probability that the Language of the Empire of China is the Primitive Language, Spoken Through the Whole Word, Before the Confusion of Babel |
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Ægypt Ægyptians affure Afia alfo almoſt alſo Amb.Or amongst anſwers antient Antiquity apud Ararat Babel becauſe cauſe Cham Characters China Chinique Chinois CHRIST confifts Confufion Confusion of Tongues Countrey cuſtoms Deluge divers doth Earth Eaſt elſe Emperour Empire eſpecially expreſs faid faith Martinius fame fetled fignifies fince firſt flood fome forein fuch Goropius hath Hebrew Heylin Hift Hiſtory hundred invented Iſlands Jaus Kircherus Language Language of China learned leſs Letters likewife lived manifeſt manner Mart Mofes moſt mountains mountains of Ararat nevertheless Nieuhoff Nimrod Noah numbers obſerved planted pofterity preſent Provinces racter Raleigh reaſon reft regard reſpect reſt ſaid ſame ſay ſcarcely Scripture ſeem ſelf ſelves Semedo ſent ſet ſeven ſeveral ſhall Shinaar ſhould ſome ſpeak ſpeech ſpoken ſtrangers ſtudy ſubject ſucceeding ſuch ſuppoſed Tartars themſelves ther therein thereof theſe things thoſe thousand Trigantius underſtand univerſal unleſs unto uſe Voffius whereby whole words World