Outlines of Ancient and Modern History on a New Plan: Embracing Biographical Notices of Illustrious Persons, and General Views of the Geography, Population, Politics, Religion, Military and Naval Affairs, Arts, Literature, Manners, Customs, and Society, of Ancient and Modern Nations. : Accompanied by a Series of Questions, and Illustrated with EngravingsBelknap and Hamersley, 1849 |
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... Persia , Egypt , continued , Distinguished Characters , Jews , Nineveh , Babylon , Medes , Lydians , continued , 53858882222 67 64 66 67 68 68 69 70 72 72 73 · Period VIL History of Greece , continued , Romans , CONTENTS .
... Persia , Egypt , continued , Distinguished Characters , Jews , Nineveh , Babylon , Medes , Lydians , continued , 53858882222 67 64 66 67 68 68 69 70 72 72 73 · Period VIL History of Greece , continued , Romans , CONTENTS .
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... Persia , continued , Macedon , continued , Distinguished Characters , £ 8 . 73 89 89 90 91 Period VIIL History of Greece , continued , 91 Rome , continued , 100 Sicily , 108 Syria , 109 Jews , continued , 111 Egypt , continued , 112 ...
... Persia , continued , Macedon , continued , Distinguished Characters , £ 8 . 73 89 89 90 91 Period VIIL History of Greece , continued , 91 Rome , continued , 100 Sicily , 108 Syria , 109 Jews , continued , 111 Egypt , continued , 112 ...
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... Persians , the Assyrians , and the Lydians . By Joktan , the fourth in descent from Shem , the uttermost parts of the east were peopled , and perhaps America also , where , it is said , some traces of his name yet remain . Joktan had 13 ...
... Persians , the Assyrians , and the Lydians . By Joktan , the fourth in descent from Shem , the uttermost parts of the east were peopled , and perhaps America also , where , it is said , some traces of his name yet remain . Joktan had 13 ...
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... Persia . 10. Under the institutions of Lycurgus the Spartans had become a race of warriors . Being in the neighbourhood of Messenia , they were almost constantly at war with that state . The first Messenian war began 743 years B. C. and ...
... Persia . 10. Under the institutions of Lycurgus the Spartans had become a race of warriors . Being in the neighbourhood of Messenia , they were almost constantly at war with that state . The first Messenian war began 743 years B. C. and ...
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... Persia , to return to their native land , 536 years B. C. This was accomplished under the direction of Zerubbabel and Joshua , their leaders . They soon began the rebuilding of the temple , but their enemies prevented them from making ...
... Persia , to return to their native land , 536 years B. C. This was accomplished under the direction of Zerubbabel and Joshua , their leaders . They soon began the rebuilding of the temple , but their enemies prevented them from making ...
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201. oldal - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
232. oldal - ... your attendance at this parliament. For God and man have concurred to punish the wickedness of this time. And think not slightly of this advertisement ; but retire yourself into your country, where you may expect the event in safety. For though there be no appearance of any stir, yet, I say, they will receive a terrible blow — this parliament, and yet they shall not see who hurts them.
15. oldal - And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
87. oldal - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
354. oldal - The fellows or monks of my time were decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder : their days were filled by a series of uniform employments ; the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber. .From the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their conscience...
270. oldal - Mr Boyle's writings shall I recommend ? All of them. To him we owe the secrets of fire, air, water, animals, vegetables, fossils : so that from his works may be deduced the whole system of natural knowledge.
342. oldal - ... are unauthorized by the Constitution of the United States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof, and are null, void, and no law, nor binding upon this State, its officers or citizens ; and all promises, contracts, and obligations made or entered into, or to be made or entered into with purpose to secure the duties imposed by the said acts, and all judicial proceedings which shall be hereafter had in affirmance thereof, are and shall be held utterly null and void.
216. oldal - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
197. oldal - Edward, insensible to pity, struck him on the face with his gauntlet; and the Dukes of Clarence and Gloucester, Lord Hastings, and Sir Thomas Gray, taking the blow as a signal for further violence, hurried the Prince into the next apartment and there despatched him with their daggers.
354. oldal - From the Provincial Letters of Pascal, which almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity.