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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7. oldal
... lived to disorder the world with their crimes , and that others should have died , to leave it without the benefit of their con- tinued active labours . History improves our understanding , and enlarges our stores of useful knowledge ...
... lived to disorder the world with their crimes , and that others should have died , to leave it without the benefit of their con- tinued active labours . History improves our understanding , and enlarges our stores of useful knowledge ...
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... lived and acted . When , therefore , the Bible points to that quarter of the globe , as the cradle of na tions and of the arts , and as the theatre of the most wonder ful events , it only coincides with the general belief of man- kind ...
... lived and acted . When , therefore , the Bible points to that quarter of the globe , as the cradle of na tions and of the arts , and as the theatre of the most wonder ful events , it only coincides with the general belief of man- kind ...
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... lived 930 years , he must have beheld a numerous pos- terity , and been conversant with many who survived till near the time of the deluge . Doubtless he must have been greatly affected , in view of the wickedness which so soon began to ...
... lived 930 years , he must have beheld a numerous pos- terity , and been conversant with many who survived till near the time of the deluge . Doubtless he must have been greatly affected , in view of the wickedness which so soon began to ...
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... lived , being 969 years old when he died . § 1. Adam was created by the Almighty from the dust of the earth , on the 6th day of the creation . His Maker , it is said in Scripture , " breathed into his nostrils the breath of life ; and ...
... lived , being 969 years old when he died . § 1. Adam was created by the Almighty from the dust of the earth , on the 6th day of the creation . His Maker , it is said in Scripture , " breathed into his nostrils the breath of life ; and ...
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... lived 65 years before he begat Methuselah . He " walk ed with God after he begat Methuselah 300 years , and begat sons and daughters . And all the days of Enoch were 365 years . And Enoch walked with God , and he was not , for God took ...
... lived 65 years before he begat Methuselah . He " walk ed with God after he begat Methuselah 300 years , and begat sons and daughters . And all the days of Enoch were 365 years . And Enoch walked with God , and he was not , for God took ...
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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.