A History of the World from the Earliest Records to the Present Time: From the creation of the world to the accession of Philip of MacedonD. Appleton, 1865 |
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... Probably these missing names were purposely left out to make the number for the interval equal to that of the other intervals , such an omission being obvious , and not liable to cause error . " Ezra vii . 1-5 . Genesis xxix . 5 ...
... Probably these missing names were purposely left out to make the number for the interval equal to that of the other intervals , such an omission being obvious , and not liable to cause error . " Ezra vii . 1-5 . Genesis xxix . 5 ...
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... probably exhibited to Moses in vision , simply as phenomena , leaving their interpretation to the discoveries of science . Only these leading points were clearly revealed : —that the matter of the world — the visible earth and sky ...
... probably exhibited to Moses in vision , simply as phenomena , leaving their interpretation to the discoveries of science . Only these leading points were clearly revealed : —that the matter of the world — the visible earth and sky ...
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... used for cement . The motive thus assigned , and their movement from their original seats , prove that the necessity for a dispersion was already obvious even to themselves . at Borsippa ( probably the Chaldæan Barsip , or Tower.
... used for cement . The motive thus assigned , and their movement from their original seats , prove that the necessity for a dispersion was already obvious even to themselves . at Borsippa ( probably the Chaldæan Barsip , or Tower.
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... probably view the ancient Egyptians as nearest to the pure type of a Hamite race . That this type is to be found in the negro is a prejudice as unfounded as the attempt to wrest Noah's prophe- cy of the subjection of the Canaanites to ...
... probably view the ancient Egyptians as nearest to the pure type of a Hamite race . That this type is to be found in the negro is a prejudice as unfounded as the attempt to wrest Noah's prophe- cy of the subjection of the Canaanites to ...
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... probably the races which ultimately spread north - west- ward over Europe , we cannot tell how far we have to look for them among existing nations ; and a wide range is left open to speculation . The name of Gomer resembles that of the ...
... probably the races which ultimately spread north - west- ward over Europe , we cannot tell how far we have to look for them among existing nations ; and a wide range is left open to speculation . The name of Gomer resembles that of the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Abraham allies ancient Arab Armenia army Aryan Asia Minor Assyrian Astyages Athenians Athens Babylon Babylonian battle Berosus called Canaan captives Chaldæan character chief chronology civilization colonies conquest Cushite Cyaxares Cyrus Darius death Desert dialects Divine Dorian Dynasty earliest earth east Egypt Egyptian empire epoch Ethiopian Euphrates Exodus fleet Greece Greek Hamite Hebrew Herodotus highlands historian inscriptions Ionian island Israel Israelites Japheth Judah king kingdom Lacedæmonians land language later Manetho Mardonius maritime marked Medes Median ment Mesopotamia monarchy monuments Moses mountains nations Nebuchadnezzar Nile Nineveh Noah northern numbers original patriarchal peninsula Pericles period Persian Pharaoh Phoenician plain priests probably prophet proved Psammetichus pyramid race Rameses Rawlinson records reign revolt river ruins sacred Scripture seems seen Semitic Shem shores Sparta story temple Thebes Thucydides Tigris tion tombs tradition tribes Turanian valley victory western whole Xerxes
Pasajes populares
Página 140 - Tunes her nocturnal note: thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Página 295 - I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Página 34 - These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Página 242 - Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
Página 287 - Laud be to God ! — even there my life must end. It hath been prophesied to me many years, I should not die but in Jerusalem ; Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land. — But bear me to that chamber ; there I'll lie ; In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.
Página 50 - These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
Página 164 - In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Página 235 - One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end...
Página 228 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Página 460 - While kings, in dusty darkness hid, Have left a nameless pyramid, Thy heroes, though the general doom Hath swept the column from their tomb, A mightier monument command, The mountains of their native land ! There points thy Muse to stranger's eye The graves of those that cannot die ! Twere long to tell, and sad to trace, Each step from splendour to disgrace; Enough — no foreign foe could quell Thy soul, till from itself it fell ; Yes ! Self-abasement paved the way To villain-bonds and despot sway.