A History of the World from the Earliest Records to the Present Time, Volume 1Walton and Maberly, 1864 |
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... Herodotus and the other earlier Greek writers . They are the family whose chief branch , settled in the east and south - east of Europe , along the northern sides of the Black Sea , the Caucasus , and the Caspian , obtained the name of ...
... Herodotus and the other earlier Greek writers . They are the family whose chief branch , settled in the east and south - east of Europe , along the northern sides of the Black Sea , the Caucasus , and the Caspian , obtained the name of ...
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... the rivers , of Scripture . Padan - Aram , the cultivated Aram , was another name of the same district . + See Rawlinson's Herodotus , vol . iv . , Essay II . Genesis x . 15 . the Semitic race acquired that form , which its peculiar E 2.
... the rivers , of Scripture . Padan - Aram , the cultivated Aram , was another name of the same district . + See Rawlinson's Herodotus , vol . iv . , Essay II . Genesis x . 15 . the Semitic race acquired that form , which its peculiar E 2.
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... Herodotus tells us , caused two new - born children to be brought up in a hut , upon the milk of goats , with no other attendant than the goatherd , who was forbidden to utter a word in their presence . When they had passed the age of ...
... Herodotus tells us , caused two new - born children to be brought up in a hut , upon the milk of goats , with no other attendant than the goatherd , who was forbidden to utter a word in their presence . When they had passed the age of ...
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... Herodotus are very uncertain . The higher castes were undoubtedly of the Caucasian race ; the lower were a mixed population , chiefly of the Nigritian type . The mixed character of the people joined with the peculiar position of their ...
... Herodotus are very uncertain . The higher castes were undoubtedly of the Caucasian race ; the lower were a mixed population , chiefly of the Nigritian type . The mixed character of the people joined with the peculiar position of their ...
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... Herodotus was told that the sun was reflected vertically in a well at the summer solstice ; but this is not literally true . From Syene the Nile flows between high banks of mud , in the valley bounded by the hills already mentioned ...
... Herodotus was told that the sun was reflected vertically in a well at the summer solstice ; but this is not literally true . From Syene the Nile flows between high banks of mud , in the valley bounded by the hills already mentioned ...
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Abraham Achæan Alcibiades allies already ancient army Asia Minor Asiatic Assyrian Astyages Athenians Athens Attica Babylon Babylonia Babylonian battle Berosus Boeotia called Cambyses Chaldæan character chief chronology coast colonies conquest Corinth Cushite Cyaxares Cyrus Darius death Desert Divine Dorian Dynasty earliest earth east Egypt Egyptian empire enemy epoch Euphrates Exodus expedition fleet Grecian Greek Grote Hamite Hebrew Hellenic Hellespont Herodotus historian History of Greece inscriptions Ionian island Israel Judah king kingdom Lacedæmonians land language later legends Manetho Marathon Mardonius maritime Medes monarchy monuments nations Nile Nineveh Noah northern numbers patriarchal Peloponnesian Peloponnesus peninsula Pericles period Persian Phoenician plain political priests probably prophet proved Psammetichus pyramid race reign revolt river sacred Salamis Scripture seems Semitic Shem ships shores Sparta story temple Thebans Thebes Themistocles Thucydides Tigris tion tombs trace tradition tribes triremes Turanian valley victory western whole Xerxes
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Página 231 - 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 : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; And their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; And owls shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there.
Página 412 - 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 ? And where are they, and where art thou, My country?
Página 26 - These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Página 220 - 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...
Página 42 - These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
Página 234 - Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
Página 222 - 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.
Página 158 - In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Página 134 - Tunes her nocturnal note: thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Página i - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.