A Compendious History of the World, from the Creation to the Dissolution of the Roman Republic

by John Newbery

Book, 1763

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Available

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London: Printed for J. Newbery, 1763

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Newbery: prolific children's author (for whom book award is named); promoter of Mother Goose rhymes.
5-6: Scoffs at those who doubt universal Flood--those who “make it the effect of second causes” afford only “matter for entertainment.” But it should “seem no wonder that the waters should obey the voice of him who made them.”
Creation 3960 BC?
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