History of the World from the Creation to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, Volume 1Appleton, 1885 |
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... Cushite - Twenty- third dynasty at Tanis - Obscurity and decline - Twenty - fourth dynasty - Boc- choris the wise - Twenty - fifth dynasty , of Ethiopians - The Sabacos and Tirhakah -Hoshea , king of Israel - Sennacherib and Hezekiah ...
... Cushite - Twenty- third dynasty at Tanis - Obscurity and decline - Twenty - fourth dynasty - Boc- choris the wise - Twenty - fifth dynasty , of Ethiopians - The Sabacos and Tirhakah -Hoshea , king of Israel - Sennacherib and Hezekiah ...
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... Cushite branch of the family of Ham , and that the Plain of Shinar was the great level of Lower Mesopotamia , or Chaldæa , and the site of the city that spot on the banks of the Euphrates , which has ever since borne the name of Babel ...
... Cushite branch of the family of Ham , and that the Plain of Shinar was the great level of Lower Mesopotamia , or Chaldæa , and the site of the city that spot on the banks of the Euphrates , which has ever since borne the name of Babel ...
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... Cushite races of Sheba and Havilah appear as descendants of the Shemite Joktan in Arabia . The general conclusion is , that we must not expect to find the same marked distinction between the races and languages of Shem and Ham , as ...
... Cushite races of Sheba and Havilah appear as descendants of the Shemite Joktan in Arabia . The general conclusion is , that we must not expect to find the same marked distinction between the races and languages of Shem and Ham , as ...
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... , which is closely allied to the Slavonian dialects , is rather of European than of Asiatic origin . + See Book II . , chapter vi . THE CUSHITE RACE . 46 ? the most ancient name 44 [ CHAP . IV . THE DIVISION OF THE NATIONS .
... , which is closely allied to the Slavonian dialects , is rather of European than of Asiatic origin . + See Book II . , chapter vi . THE CUSHITE RACE . 46 ? the most ancient name 44 [ CHAP . IV . THE DIVISION OF THE NATIONS .
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... Cushite dynasty in the great plain of Babylonia . Traditions of the most ancient times , and the recently discovered records of the oldest Babylonian language , point to an original Cushite pop- ulation in those regions , where the ...
... Cushite dynasty in the great plain of Babylonia . Traditions of the most ancient times , and the recently discovered records of the oldest Babylonian language , point to an original Cushite pop- ulation in those regions , where the ...
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Page 424 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations;— all were his! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set, where were they?
Page 297 - 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.
Page 343 - Look once more ere we leave this specular mount Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence...
Page 230 - 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...
Page 174 - Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs ; In Sion also not unsung, where stood Her temple on the offensive mountain, built By that uxorious king, whose heart, though large, Beguiled by fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul.
Page 289 - 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.
Page 240 - Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation...
Page 305 - Jove usurping reigned : these first in Crete And Ida known, thence on the snowy top Of cold Olympus ruled the middle air, Their highest heaven; or on the Delphian cliff, Or in Dodona, and through all the bounds Of Doric land: or who with Saturn old Fled over Adria to the Hesperian fields, And o'er the Celtic roamed the utmost isles.
Page 232 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
Page 166 - In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.