The World Displayed, in Its History and Geography: Embracing a History of the World, from the Creation to the Present Day ...H. Savage, 1837 |
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... became ilable to dissolution , with all their posterity . The seeds of death were then planted in their frame , and the moral qualities of their souls became wholly corrupt and sinful . The disclosure of their crime was in the highest ...
... became ilable to dissolution , with all their posterity . The seeds of death were then planted in their frame , and the moral qualities of their souls became wholly corrupt and sinful . The disclosure of their crime was in the highest ...
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... became , with the rest of mankind , exceedingly degenerate . From these inter- marriages sprang the giants of those times , men of extraordinary strength and stature , and , perhaps , of more extraordinary wick- edness . These became ...
... became , with the rest of mankind , exceedingly degenerate . From these inter- marriages sprang the giants of those times , men of extraordinary strength and stature , and , perhaps , of more extraordinary wick- edness . These became ...
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... became a living soul . " He was thus endued with an immortal principle , and being placed in a probationary state , not only his own cha- racter , but the character of his posterity , was to be affected by his conduct . As he came from ...
... became a living soul . " He was thus endued with an immortal principle , and being placed in a probationary state , not only his own cha- racter , but the character of his posterity , was to be affected by his conduct . As he came from ...
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... founder was Ashur , the son of Shem , who built Nineveh , its capital . It continued alone about 120 years , and then being united to Babylonia , became a mighty empire . § In the order of time , there were two 2348-1921 B. C. 2 !
... founder was Ashur , the son of Shem , who built Nineveh , its capital . It continued alone about 120 years , and then being united to Babylonia , became a mighty empire . § In the order of time , there were two 2348-1921 B. C. 2 !
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... became a proverb . " " The beginning of his kingdom , " says scripture , was Babel , and Erech , and Accad , and Calneh , in the land of Shinar . " 4. Menes , the founder of the Egyptian monarchy , was worshippea as a god after death ...
... became a proverb . " " The beginning of his kingdom , " says scripture , was Babel , and Erech , and Accad , and Calneh , in the land of Shinar . " 4. Menes , the founder of the Egyptian monarchy , was worshippea as a god after death ...
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Página 85 - 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.
Página 140 - They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault : what do these worthies, But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations...
Página 228 - 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.
Página 338 - That the several acts and parts of acts of the congress of the United States, purporting to be laws for the imposing of duties and imposts on the importation of foreign commodities, and now having actual operation and effect within the United States, and more especially...
Página 338 - States, and more especially" two acts for the same purposes passed on the 29th of May 1828, and on the 14th of July 1832, "are unauthorized by the Constitution of the United States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof, and are null and void and no law...
Página 35 - Now consider how great this man •was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils. 5 And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham...
Página 202 - Her heroism was exempt from temerity, her frugality from avarice, her friendship from partiality, her active temper from turbulency and a vain ambition : She guarded not herself with equal care or equal success from lesser infirmities; the rivalship of beauty, the desire of admiration, the jealousy of love, and the sallies of anger.
Página 35 - And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine : and he was the priest of the most high God.
Página 193 - 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.
Página 393 - Engine is generally believed to have been the marquis of Worcester in 1655 ; but his apparatus was intended to raise water by the expansive force of steam only. His project was neglected in his own age, nor does the subject appear to have excited the attention of scientific persons, till the year 1698, when Captain Savary obtained a patent for a new invention for raising water, and occasioning motion to all sorts of mill-work, by the impellent force of fire.