A History of All Nations, from the Earlier Periods to the Present Time: Or, Universal History : in which the History of Every Nation, Ancient and Modern, is Separately Given, Volume 1Wilkins, Carter & Company, 1851 - 1207 pages |
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... carried away from the tomb . The inscription termed The Decree respecting the Bacchanalia , Senatus Consultum de Bacchanalibus , was discovered in 1640 in the province of Abruzzo , king- dom of Naples . It is engraved upon a bronze ...
... carried away from the tomb . The inscription termed The Decree respecting the Bacchanalia , Senatus Consultum de Bacchanalibus , was discovered in 1640 in the province of Abruzzo , king- dom of Naples . It is engraved upon a bronze ...
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... carried to a faulty extreme ; in our days , it is the philosophical part of history which is overcharged . A good history should combine both , in a moderate degree . Philosophy is nothing more than an attempt to trace the relation of ...
... carried to a faulty extreme ; in our days , it is the philosophical part of history which is overcharged . A good history should combine both , in a moderate degree . Philosophy is nothing more than an attempt to trace the relation of ...
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... carried back the origin of society for a that these pages are intended rather for popular use space of 473,000 years . It is hardly necessary to say than for the learned student . It is not the design of that these accounts are ...
... carried back the origin of society for a that these pages are intended rather for popular use space of 473,000 years . It is hardly necessary to say than for the learned student . It is not the design of that these accounts are ...
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... carried round the heavens in chariots , close on all still more illusive guide of fancy . The advances sides except one , in which was a round hole ; and that which have been made in modern times , not only in a total or partial eclipse ...
... carried round the heavens in chariots , close on all still more illusive guide of fancy . The advances sides except one , in which was a round hole ; and that which have been made in modern times , not only in a total or partial eclipse ...
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... carried astronomy to still higher perfec- tion . He fixed the length of the year at 365 days , 5 hours , and 53 minutes , which is within four minutes and three seconds of the truth . He discovered a method of computing with triangles ...
... carried astronomy to still higher perfec- tion . He fixed the length of the year at 365 days , 5 hours , and 53 minutes , which is within four minutes and three seconds of the truth . He discovered a method of computing with triangles ...
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Page 146 - So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
Page 75 - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!
Page 155 - And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the Lord shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan...
Page 146 - And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
Page 169 - Their children's cries unheard that passed through fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite Worshiped in Rabba and her watery plain, In Argob and in Basan, to the stream Of utmost Arnon. Nor content with such Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest heart Of Solomon he led by fraud to build His temple right against the temple of God On that opprobrious hill, and made his grove The pleasant valley of Hinnom, Tophet thence And black Gehenna called, the type of Hell.
Page 156 - And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
Page 167 - THE beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon : lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Page 34 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 67 - Gul in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute ; Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
Page 168 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!