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... death of Joshua From the death of Joshua to the reign of Saul From the death of Saul to the reign of Rehoboam From the Captivity to the reign of the Ptolemies From the time of the Maccabees to the birth of Christ CHAP . III . - Grecian ...
... death of Joshua From the death of Joshua to the reign of Saul From the death of Saul to the reign of Rehoboam From the Captivity to the reign of the Ptolemies From the time of the Maccabees to the birth of Christ CHAP . III . - Grecian ...
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... death of Christ . 12. Arbitrary , a . depending on no rule ; capricious ; despotic . 18. Pri'mitive , a . from the beginning . 18 . single person ; empire . Transla'tion , s . removal ; change ; ( in the Scriptural sense ) passing from ...
... death of Christ . 12. Arbitrary , a . depending on no rule ; capricious ; despotic . 18. Pri'mitive , a . from the beginning . 18 . single person ; empire . Transla'tion , s . removal ; change ; ( in the Scriptural sense ) passing from ...
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Richmal Mangnall William Pinnock. tions of the Persian empire , till the death of Alexander the Great ; after which it was allotted to Seleu'cus , one of Alex- ander's generals , whose successors had it for many centuries . 25. Sharing ...
Richmal Mangnall William Pinnock. tions of the Persian empire , till the death of Alexander the Great ; after which it was allotted to Seleu'cus , one of Alex- ander's generals , whose successors had it for many centuries . 25. Sharing ...
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... Where was it seated ? By whom destroyed ? 18. Who was the last king of the first Assyrian monarchy ? 19. How was Assyria divided upon the death of Sardanapalus ? 20. Who was Arbaces ? Arbaces was governor of Media 20 20 INTRODUCTION .
... Where was it seated ? By whom destroyed ? 18. Who was the last king of the first Assyrian monarchy ? 19. How was Assyria divided upon the death of Sardanapalus ? 20. Who was Arbaces ? Arbaces was governor of Media 20 20 INTRODUCTION .
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... death of Alexander , whose body was depo- sited in this new city , Alexandria became the regal capital of Egypt , under the Ptolemies , and rose to its highest splendour . 25. During the reign of the three first princes of this name ...
... death of Alexander , whose body was depo- sited in this new city , Alexandria became the regal capital of Egypt , under the Ptolemies , and rose to its highest splendour . 25. During the reign of the three first princes of this name ...
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385. oldal - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
164. oldal - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
163. oldal - And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
164. oldal - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night...
18. oldal - From that time, like everything else which falls into the hands of the Mussulman, it has been going to ruin, and the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope gave the deathblow to its commercial greatness.
13. oldal - And Cush begat Nimrod : he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
171. oldal - And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles. 3 And the children of Israel...
390. oldal - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
382. oldal - He trod an open but unfrequented path to immortality, in the ardent and unremitted exercise of Christian charity. May this tribute to his fame excite an emulation of his truly glorious achievements.
111. oldal - Around his waist he wore a golden girdle, after the manner of women, whence his scimitar hung, the scabbard of which flamed all over with gems ; on his head he wore a tiara, or mitre, round which was a fillet of blue mixed with white.