 | Jacques Bénigne Bossuet - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 588
...ages, those of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and that of Joseph, or, rather, that of God himself, and of his wondrous acts. He had no need to dig very deep for the traditions of his ancestors. He was born an hundred years after the death of Jacob. The old men of his time might have... | |
 | Jacques Bénigne Bossuet - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 418
...Abraham, Isaac, Jacoh, and that oi Joseph, or, rather that of God himself, and of his wondrous acts. H>" had no need to dig very deep for the traditions of his ancestors. He was born an hundred years after the death of Jacob. The old men of his time might have... | |
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... the powers of the historian as such to trace its continuity. Bossuet had no difficulty in forging a historical link between Moses and the Creation. Moses, Bossuet says, collected the history of past ages, those of Adam, Noe, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob,... 