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... the Israelites and the Assyro - Baby- lonians - Original seat of the nation , Lower Babylonia - Special characteristics of the Phoenician people - Industry and perse- PAGE verance - Audacity in enterprise - Pliability and adaptability-
... the Israelites and the Assyro - Baby- lonians - Original seat of the nation , Lower Babylonia - Special characteristics of the Phoenician people - Industry and perse- PAGE verance - Audacity in enterprise - Pliability and adaptability-
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... Original seat of the nation , Lower Babylonia - Special character- istics of the Phoenician people - Industry and perseverance— Audacity in enterprise - Pliability and adaptability - Acuteness of intellect - Business capacity - Charge ...
... Original seat of the nation , Lower Babylonia - Special character- istics of the Phoenician people - Industry and perseverance— Audacity in enterprise - Pliability and adaptability - Acuteness of intellect - Business capacity - Charge ...
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... original form of speech , and adopted an alien dialect , language , if not a certain , is at least a very strong , evidence of ethnic character . Counter - evidence may no doubt rebut . the prima facie presumption ; but in the case of ...
... original form of speech , and adopted an alien dialect , language , if not a certain , is at least a very strong , evidence of ethnic character . Counter - evidence may no doubt rebut . the prima facie presumption ; but in the case of ...
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... original settlements of the Pho- nician people were upon the Erythræan Sea ( Persian Gulf ) , and that they had migrated from that quarter at a remote period , and transferred their abode to the shores of the Mediterranean.4 Strabo adds ...
... original settlements of the Pho- nician people were upon the Erythræan Sea ( Persian Gulf ) , and that they had migrated from that quarter at a remote period , and transferred their abode to the shores of the Mediterranean.4 Strabo adds ...
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... original idea ) ; they were the boldest mariners , the greatest colonisers , who at one time held not only the gorgeous East , but the whole of the then half - civilised West in fee - who could boast of a form of government approaching ...
... original idea ) ; they were the boldest mariners , the greatest colonisers , who at one time held not only the gorgeous East , but the whole of the then half - civilised West in fee - who could boast of a form of government approaching ...
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