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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... proved but a veil for sar- castic incredulity . No man with a sound head and a warm heart can relate the call of Abraham , the legislation of Moses , the con- quest of Canaan , the story of Pharaoh , or Nebuchadnezzar , or Cyrus , and ...
... proved but a veil for sar- castic incredulity . No man with a sound head and a warm heart can relate the call of Abraham , the legislation of Moses , the con- quest of Canaan , the story of Pharaoh , or Nebuchadnezzar , or Cyrus , and ...
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... proved by the immortal work of Gibbon . What great historical mass was ever made up of more distinct elements — each with its own epochs more strongly marked , and with fewer epochs common to the whole series - than the story of the ...
... proved by the immortal work of Gibbon . What great historical mass was ever made up of more distinct elements — each with its own epochs more strongly marked , and with fewer epochs common to the whole series - than the story of the ...
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... proved in many cases , links are omitted in their statement . " When we come to examine them closely , we find that many are broken without being in consequence technically defective as Hebrew genealogies . * Genesis xv . 13 ; Exodus ...
... proved in many cases , links are omitted in their statement . " When we come to examine them closely , we find that many are broken without being in consequence technically defective as Hebrew genealogies . * Genesis xv . 13 ; Exodus ...
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... prove each descent to be immediate . But even if we can do this , we have still to be sure that we can determine the average length of each generation . " The violent efforts of the Rabbis to bring their shorter period into harmony with ...
... prove each descent to be immediate . But even if we can do this , we have still to be sure that we can determine the average length of each generation . " The violent efforts of the Rabbis to bring their shorter period into harmony with ...
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... within the province of the historian . Nor is this the place to discuss the genuineness and historic credibility of the writings ascribed to Moses . This we assume as proved . In relating the creation of the world , as the.
... within the province of the historian . Nor is this the place to discuss the genuineness and historic credibility of the writings ascribed to Moses . This we assume as proved . In relating the creation of the world , as the.
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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
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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.