Ancient History of Egypt, Assyria, and BabyloniaLongman, 1862 - 418 pages |
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... remarkable of the Semitic family is the small size of the district which it covers , being a space scarcely more than 1600 miles in length and 800 in breadth , and its wonderful capacity for originating new and strange ideas , and thus ...
... remarkable of the Semitic family is the small size of the district which it covers , being a space scarcely more than 1600 miles in length and 800 in breadth , and its wonderful capacity for originating new and strange ideas , and thus ...
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... remarkable for the remains of its buildings as it is deficient in historical certainty . The Pyramids , which are still reckoned amongst the wonders of the world , were undoubtedly built when Kings and Queens , whose names are now mere ...
... remarkable for the remains of its buildings as it is deficient in historical certainty . The Pyramids , which are still reckoned amongst the wonders of the world , were undoubtedly built when Kings and Queens , whose names are now mere ...
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... remarkable for his wickedness as well as his power . Rejecting the worship of the gods , he shut up all the temples , and ordered the Egyptians to labour only for himself . Some were sent to procure stones from the quarries in the ...
... remarkable for his wickedness as well as his power . Rejecting the worship of the gods , he shut up all the temples , and ordered the Egyptians to labour only for himself . Some were sent to procure stones from the quarries in the ...
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... remarkable , that some persons are disposed to think that the Egyptians , being aware of the promises of the real Saviour , had anticipated that event , recording it as though it had already happened . The visible representation of ...
... remarkable , that some persons are disposed to think that the Egyptians , being aware of the promises of the real Saviour , had anticipated that event , recording it as though it had already happened . The visible representation of ...
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... remarkable indeed was the feeling of veneration in which the sacred creatures were held , that in times of severe famine , when hunger com- pelled the people to eat human flesh , no one ever ven- tured to touch the meat set apart for ...
... remarkable indeed was the feeling of veneration in which the sacred creatures were held , that in times of severe famine , when hunger com- pelled the people to eat human flesh , no one ever ven- tured to touch the meat set apart for ...
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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.