Ancient History of Egypt, Assyria, and BabyloniaLongman, 1862 - 418 pages |
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... OF GREECE ; " HISTORY OF THE EARLY CHURCH ; " " DICTATION EXERCISES , " ETC. LONDON : LONGMAN , GREEN , LONGMAN , AND ROBERTS . 1862 . 200. m . 21 . ༡2 / , g . 129 ä . HECH PREFACE . THE chief authorities consulted for the following.
... OF GREECE ; " HISTORY OF THE EARLY CHURCH ; " " DICTATION EXERCISES , " ETC. LONDON : LONGMAN , GREEN , LONGMAN , AND ROBERTS . 1862 . 200. m . 21 . ༡2 / , g . 129 ä . HECH PREFACE . THE chief authorities consulted for the following.
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Elizabeth Missing Sewell. HECH PREFACE . THE chief authorities consulted for the following History. BIBL OTHE • BODE.
Elizabeth Missing Sewell. HECH PREFACE . THE chief authorities consulted for the following History. BIBL OTHE • BODE.
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Elizabeth Missing Sewell. PREFACE . THE chief authorities consulted for the following History are Rawlinson's Herodotus and Bampton Lectures ; Sir Gardner Wilkinson's Ancient and Modern Egyptians ; Sharpe's History of Egypt ; Stanley's ...
Elizabeth Missing Sewell. PREFACE . THE chief authorities consulted for the following History are Rawlinson's Herodotus and Bampton Lectures ; Sir Gardner Wilkinson's Ancient and Modern Egyptians ; Sharpe's History of Egypt ; Stanley's ...
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... chief is shewn by the fact that in after ages one of the reproaches brought against him was that of having introduced a taste for luxury by accustoming his people to the use of couches , tables and carpets . Menes is sometimes said to ...
... chief is shewn by the fact that in after ages one of the reproaches brought against him was that of having introduced a taste for luxury by accustoming his people to the use of couches , tables and carpets . Menes is sometimes said to ...
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... chief share in the murder of her brother , and then suddenly , whilst they were feasting , she contrived , by means of a secret duct or large pipe , to let in the river upon them , so that they were all killed . Having done this , she ...
... chief share in the murder of her brother , and then suddenly , whilst they were feasting , she contrived , by means of a secret duct or large pipe , to let in the river upon them , so that they were all killed . Having done this , she ...
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afterwards Agathocles alabaster Alexander Alexandria Amasis amongst Amun ancient Antiochus Antony appears army Arsinoë Assyrian Assyrian kings Babylon Babylonian battle Berenice besieged bricks brought built bulls Cæsar called carried Chaldæans chariot chief Cleopatra conquest court Cyaxares death deities Demetrius discovered dominions Egyptian empire enemy Esar-haddon Euergetes Euphrates fly-whisk formed gods gold Greek hand Herodotus Hezekiah honour inscriptions Israel Jehoiakim Jeremiah Jerusalem Jewish Jews King of Assyria King of Egypt King of Judah king's kingdom land LORD magnificent Memphis Merodach monarch Nabopolassar nations Nebuchadnezzar Nile Nimroud Nineveh ornamented palace Pelusium Persian Philadelphus Philometor Philopator Phoenicia Physcon priests princes prisoner probably prophet province Psammetichus Ptolemy Ptolemy Physcon Ptolemy Soter reign resembling river Romans Rome royal ruins Scripture sculptures Sennacherib sent siege soldiers sovereign stone supposed Syria temple Thebes thee thou throne Tiglath Pileser tion took troops unto vessels walls whilst worship
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Page 356 - ... the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Page 367 - And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this. But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.
Page 358 - 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...
Page 323 - And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
Page 108 - Thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said : — " My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
Page 358 - And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation...
Page 41 - And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Page 353 - I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Page 289 - When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Page 50 - And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.