The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane]., Volume 16

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John George Cochrane
1836
 

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Page 323 - Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house ; he took all : he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Page 322 - And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him ; and it came to pass, that in the fifth year of King Rehoboam Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the Lord, with twelve hundred chariots and threescore thousand horsemen ; and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt — the Lubims, and the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians. And...
Page 16 - God bless her, may her children and her children's children never suffer, and " as the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children, even unto the third and fourth generation...
Page 58 - DICTIONARY IN SANSKRIT AND ENGLISH. Translated, amended, and enlarged from an original compilation prepared by learned Natives for the College of Fort William by HH WILSON.
Page 308 - It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence.
Page 10 - The History of the United States of North America, from the Plantation of the British Colonies till their Revolt and Declaration of Independence.
Page 417 - Yet consult the general opinion of mankind, and it will tell you that France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was the most civilized country of Europe.
Page 409 - He moste winke, so loude he wolde cryen, And stonden on his tiptoon ther-with-al, And strecche forth his nekke long and smal. And eek he was of swich discrecioun, That ther nas no man in no regioun That him in song or wisdom mighte passe. I have wel rad in daun Burnel the Asse...
Page 6 - ... of Scotland has been long felt ; and from the specimen which the volume before us gives of the author's talents and capacity for the task he has undertaken, it may be reasonably inferred that the deficiency will be very ably supplied. The descriptions of the battles are concise, but full of spirit The events are themselves of the most romantic kind, and are detailed in a very picturesque and forcible style.

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