A History of the World from the Earliest Records to the Present Time, Volume 1Walton and Maberly, 1864 |
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... described , to account for their interlacing with this one . Thus , for example , the history of Greece connects itself , at certain points , with those of Persia and of Rome ; and these with a whole network of fibres that lead over ...
... described , to account for their interlacing with this one . Thus , for example , the history of Greece connects itself , at certain points , with those of Persia and of Rome ; and these with a whole network of fibres that lead over ...
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... described by St. Peter and St. Jude ; in each case as the type of a like state of unbridled licence which will precede the end of the world . Thus at each stage of human history it is demonstrated that the present order of things is ...
... described by St. Peter and St. Jude ; in each case as the type of a like state of unbridled licence which will precede the end of the world . Thus at each stage of human history it is demonstrated that the present order of things is ...
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... described the destiny of the peoples that have sprung from them . Ham is cursed in the person of his son Canaan , * as the ancestor of the race most hostile to the chosen family , with the doom of servitude to his brethren , and ...
... described the destiny of the peoples that have sprung from them . Ham is cursed in the person of his son Canaan , * as the ancestor of the race most hostile to the chosen family , with the doom of servitude to his brethren , and ...
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... described as running to the east , extend westward along the northern and southern shores of Asia Minor , ending abruptly in the western headlands of that peninsula . Their pro- longations are lost amidst the European ranges which ...
... described as running to the east , extend westward along the northern and southern shores of Asia Minor , ending abruptly in the western headlands of that peninsula . Their pro- longations are lost amidst the European ranges which ...
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... described . The part of Africa south of the Great Desert has only the remotest connexion with ancient history ; and the New Worlds of America and Oceania may be left for the present out of view . Our plan is , first to obtain a general ...
... described . The part of Africa south of the Great Desert has only the remotest connexion with ancient history ; and the New Worlds of America and Oceania may be left for the present out of view . Our plan is , first to obtain a general ...
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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.