Outlines of History: Illustrated by Numerous Geographical and Historical Notes and Maps: Embracing: Part I. Ancient History. Part II. Modern HistoryIvison & Phinney, 1855 - 600 oldal |
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... miles in width , is indebted wholly to the annual inundations of the Nile for its fertility ; and without them , would soon become a barren waste . The river begins to swell , in its higher parts , in April ; but at the Delta no ...
... miles in width , is indebted wholly to the annual inundations of the Nile for its fertility ; and without them , would soon become a barren waste . The river begins to swell , in its higher parts , in April ; but at the Delta no ...
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... miles in length . According to this computation the city embraced an area of 225 square miles . But Diodorus reduces the supposed area to 72 square miles ; -equal , however , to three and a half times the area of London , with all its ...
... miles in length . According to this computation the city embraced an area of 225 square miles . But Diodorus reduces the supposed area to 72 square miles ; -equal , however , to three and a half times the area of London , with all its ...
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... miles , with an average width of fifty miles . The greatest length of the Moréa , which is from north to south , is about one hundred and forty miles . The whole area of the country so renowned in history under the name of Greece or Hel ...
... miles , with an average width of fifty miles . The greatest length of the Moréa , which is from north to south , is about one hundred and forty miles . The whole area of the country so renowned in history under the name of Greece or Hel ...
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... miles from the bottom of the Gulf of Ar ' gos , and on the western side of a plain ten or twelve miles in length , and four or five in width . The eastern side of the plain is dry and barren , and here were situated Tir ' yns , from ...
... miles from the bottom of the Gulf of Ar ' gos , and on the western side of a plain ten or twelve miles in length , and four or five in width . The eastern side of the plain is dry and barren , and here were situated Tir ' yns , from ...
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... miles , and its greatest breadth about 400 miles . Its waters are only about one - seventh part less salt than the Atlantic - a fact attributable to the saline nature of the bot- tom , and of the northern coast . The Euxine is deep ...
... miles , and its greatest breadth about 400 miles . Its waters are only about one - seventh part less salt than the Atlantic - a fact attributable to the saline nature of the bot- tom , and of the northern coast . The Euxine is deep ...
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13. oldal - And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
66. oldal - And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
40. oldal - And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
39. oldal - All around them was the great wilderness- — "a land of deserts and of pits," "a land of drought, and of the shadow of death," "a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt.
61. oldal - Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.
183. oldal - Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms, Quite vanquish'd him: then burst his mighty heart; And, in his mantle muffling up his face, Even at the base of Pompey's statua, Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell.
275. oldal - Under the name of aids, the lord claimed stipulated sums from his tenants on the occasion of the knighting of his eldest son, the marriage of his eldest daughter, or his own capture in war.
68. oldal - Ezekiel, that, after the desolations foretold, " there shall no more be a prince of the land of Egypt," has been verified in a remarkable manner ; for the kings of Egypt were made tributary, and grievously oppressed, first by the Babylonians, and next by the Persians; and since the rule of the latter, Egypt has successively been governed by foreigners —by the Macedonians, the Romans, the Mamelukes, and lastly, by the Turks, who possess the land of the Pharaohs to this day.
12. oldal - ... to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day, and over the night, to be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years.