The Adventures of Signor Gaudentio Di Lucca Being the Substance of His Examinati
The Adventures of Signor Gaudentio Di Lucca Being the Substance of His Examinati
Simon Berington
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Remarks GAUDSNTIO DX LUCCA. 107 Remarks of Signer I^hedi. ( i ) Extremely myfierisus in all tJ:ey Jo, V. ] The ancient Egyp- tians were fo myfterious, particularly in their religious ceremo- nies, and arcana of government, that in ail probability the an- cient fables, which very few yet underftand rightly, had their rife from them ; tho' the learned Bocbart, in his Phaleg, derives them chiefly from the Canaanices, who difperfing themfelvesall over the world, when they tied from *Joft>u4, impofe...d upon the credulous Greeks, by the different fignifications of the fame words in thi*ir language. It is obfervable by the bye, that the mod aacient languages, as the Hebrev/, with its different dia- lefts, of which the Cananean or Phaenjcian language was one, the Chinefe language, &c. Had a great many iigmfications for the fame word, either from the plain fimplicity or poverty of the ancient languages, or more probably from^an aifcfted myi- terioufneis in all they did. ( z ) "Tojignify tkiir refyett to their Jeceajed ancejlsrt, &e.
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