An Universal History: From the Beginning of the World, to the Empire of CharlemagneR. Moore, 1821 - 405 pages |
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... conquests . Gen. x He set up the throne of his kingdom at Babylon , in the same place where the tower had been begun , and 21 . age of world . 1757 . A. C. already raised to a great height , but 2 * AN UNIVERSAL HISTORY . 17.
... conquests . Gen. x He set up the throne of his kingdom at Babylon , in the same place where the tower had been begun , and 21 . age of world . 1757 . A. C. already raised to a great height , but 2 * AN UNIVERSAL HISTORY . 17.
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... conquests , the celebrated city of Troy , already taken once by the Greeks , under Laomedon , its third 1181. king , was again reduced to ashes by the Greeks , in the reign of Priam , son of Laomedon after the siege of ten years . V. E ...
... conquests , the celebrated city of Troy , already taken once by the Greeks , under Laomedon , its third 1181. king , was again reduced to ashes by the Greeks , in the reign of Priam , son of Laomedon after the siege of ten years . V. E ...
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... conquests of Nebuchodonosor and Holofernes his general , were stopped all at once by the band of a woman . Dejo- ces , though beaten by the Assyrians , left his kingdom in a condition of advancing under his successors . Whilst Phraortes ...
... conquests of Nebuchodonosor and Holofernes his general , were stopped all at once by the band of a woman . Dejo- ces , though beaten by the Assyrians , left his kingdom in a condition of advancing under his successors . Whilst Phraortes ...
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... conquests . Thus was he peaceable master of the whole east , and founded the greatest empire that had ever been in the world . But what is most material to the connexion of our epochs , is , that this great conqueror , in the first year ...
... conquests . Thus was he peaceable master of the whole east , and founded the greatest empire that had ever been in the world . But what is most material to the connexion of our epochs , is , that this great conqueror , in the first year ...
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... conquests of Nabuchodonosor king of the Chaldeans , whom he makes to overrun Europe , pe- netrate into Spain , and carry his arms as far as the Ellan , pillars of Hercules . Elian names Thilgamus king of Hist.A- Assyria , who is ...
... conquests of Nabuchodonosor king of the Chaldeans , whom he makes to overrun Europe , pe- netrate into Spain , and carry his arms as far as the Ellan , pillars of Hercules . Elian names Thilgamus king of Hist.A- Assyria , who is ...
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Page 141 - Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion. Who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Page 223 - For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
Page 159 - Howbeit the Lord God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for He hath chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father He liked me to make me king over all Israel: 5.
Page 180 - BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me : and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple; even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in; behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 238 - If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee ; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another ; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
Page 222 - Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
Page 239 - For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
Page 224 - ... 0 the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God ! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out ! For who hath known the mind of the Lord ? or who hath been his counsellor? or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again ? For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things : to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
Page 149 - He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.
Page 174 - I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure ; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.