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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... consequence of the very distinct eras which have been observed in the work . If , therefore , the general reader should ex- perience any inconvenience , or diminution of interest , from the temporary sus- pension of the history of any ...
... consequence of the very distinct eras which have been observed in the work . If , therefore , the general reader should ex- perience any inconvenience , or diminution of interest , from the temporary sus- pension of the history of any ...
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... consequence of which the waters began to subside . The ark rested on the mountains of Ararat , on the 17th day of the 7th month , or the 6th of May . The waters continuing several months afterwards , it was not until the 27th of the 2d ...
... consequence of which the waters began to subside . The ark rested on the mountains of Ararat , on the 17th day of the 7th month , or the 6th of May . The waters continuing several months afterwards , it was not until the 27th of the 2d ...
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... consequence was the dispersion of mankind into different nations . The name given to the city was Babel , which signifies confusion . § In erecting the tower they made use of brick instead of stone , and the want of mortar was supplied ...
... consequence was the dispersion of mankind into different nations . The name given to the city was Babel , which signifies confusion . § In erecting the tower they made use of brick instead of stone , and the want of mortar was supplied ...
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... consequence of their gross wickedness . Four cities in this delightful vale , Sodom , Gomorrah , Admah , and Zeboim , were at once destroyed by fire from heaven . The whole tract of country in their vicinity became a sea , called the ...
... consequence of their gross wickedness . Four cities in this delightful vale , Sodom , Gomorrah , Admah , and Zeboim , were at once destroyed by fire from heaven . The whole tract of country in their vicinity became a sea , called the ...
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... consequence of this dream , he got together all the males born in Egypt on the same day with the prince , and had them nursed and brought up with him , upon the presumption that , being the companions of his youth , they would prove the ...
... consequence of this dream , he got together all the males born in Egypt on the same day with the prince , and had them nursed and brought up with him , upon the presumption that , being the companions of his youth , they would prove the ...
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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.