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Abulfaragius, in his "Historia Dynastarium," and Maurice, in his "Indian Skeptics Refuted," both speak of this prophecy, fulfilled, according to Mr. Higgins, by the advent of the Persian and Chaldean God Josa.

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey

It happened that my examination resulted in my writing 'Paley Refuted in his Own Words.'

From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by Holyoake, George Jacob

They began with that boyish speech in "the Fields" of New York City in 1774 and with "The Farmer Refuted," a reply to Samuel Seabury's "Westchester Farmer."

From The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters by Perry, Bliss

II. of "The Republican," in the answer to the Rev. Thomas Hartwell Home's pamphlet, entitled "Deism Refuted," &c.

From An Address to Men of Science Calling Upon Them to Stand Forward and Vindicate the Truth.... by Carlile, Richard

Yarranton, or his friends, replied to the first attack in a folio of two pages, entitled 'The Coffee-house Dialogue Examined and Refuted, by some Neighbours in the Country, well-wishers to the Kingdom's interest.'

From Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers by Smiles, Samuel