The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians, Volume 1G.G. and J. Robinson; W. Richardson and Company; H. Gardner; W. Otridge and Son; R. Baldwin ... [and 16 others]. By Darton and Harvey, 1800 |
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... most in the eye of the world , and is moft ca- pable of dazzling it . Valour , fortitude , skill in gos vernment , profound policy , merit in magiftracy , ca- pacity for the most abftrufe fciences , beauty of genius , univerfal tafte ...
... most in the eye of the world , and is moft ca- pable of dazzling it . Valour , fortitude , skill in gos vernment , profound policy , merit in magiftracy , ca- pacity for the most abftrufe fciences , beauty of genius , univerfal tafte ...
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... most useful and entertain- ing , with respect to the tranfactions , and most inftruc- tive with regard to the reflections . I wish it were poffible for me to avoid the dry fteri . lity of epitomes , which convey no diftinct idea to the ...
... most useful and entertain- ing , with respect to the tranfactions , and most inftruc- tive with regard to the reflections . I wish it were poffible for me to avoid the dry fteri . lity of epitomes , which convey no diftinct idea to the ...
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... most beautiful and moft ufeful books in our language . I have also received great affistance from the learned Dean Prideaux's Connexion of the Old and New Tefta . ment , in which he has traced and cleared up , in an admirable manner ...
... most beautiful and moft ufeful books in our language . I have also received great affistance from the learned Dean Prideaux's Connexion of the Old and New Tefta . ment , in which he has traced and cleared up , in an admirable manner ...
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... most auguft affemblies of grave fena- tors ; in a word , the moft powerful and most learned nations in all ages : to fee , I fay , all these fo unac- countably weak as to make the decifion of the greatest affairs , fuch as the declaring ...
... most auguft affemblies of grave fena- tors ; in a word , the moft powerful and most learned nations in all ages : to fee , I fay , all these fo unac- countably weak as to make the decifion of the greatest affairs , fuch as the declaring ...
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... most eagle - eyed , the most piercing fagacity , and exhibits nothing , on which he may fix his views , or form any refolution with certain- ty . He is equally feeble and impotent with regard to the execution of his defigns . He is ...
... most eagle - eyed , the most piercing fagacity , and exhibits nothing , on which he may fix his views , or form any refolution with certain- ty . He is equally feeble and impotent with regard to the execution of his defigns . He is ...
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Page 247 - LORD; it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God: let not man prevail against thee.
Page 187 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs : "But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...
Page 234 - And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour. 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 67 - And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now, they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
Page 261 - 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 263 - Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord God.
Page 175 - ... place. Now, as so exact a situation was in all probability purposely pitched upon by those who piled up this huge mass of stones above three thousand years ago, it follows, that during so long a space of time...
Page 265 - ... thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I will give Pharaoh-hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life...
Page 5 - And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
Page 176 - At last, in order, undiscern'd they join, And march together in a friendly line. And, as the Cretan labyrinth of old, With wand'ring ways and many a winding fold...