A Compendium of the History of All Nations: Exhibiting a Concise View of the Origin, Progress, Decline and Fall of the Most Considerable Empires, Kingdoms, and States of the World, from the Earliest Times to the Present Period. Interspersed with a Short Account of the Prevailing Religions. Ornamented with a Frontispiece... and Three Other Plates |
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... Christ , the second Adam , voluntarily suffered in behalf of his fallen creatures . After the decease of Adam , historians inform us , that the children of Seth , abhorring the profligacy of Cain and his descendants , removed to the ...
... Christ , the second Adam , voluntarily suffered in behalf of his fallen creatures . After the decease of Adam , historians inform us , that the children of Seth , abhorring the profligacy of Cain and his descendants , removed to the ...
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... christian writers , where we shall find some particu- lars worthy of attention . The birth of Shem must have happened in the year of the world 1558 , as , at the birth of Arphaxad , two years after the deluge , he was one hundred years ...
... christian writers , where we shall find some particu- lars worthy of attention . The birth of Shem must have happened in the year of the world 1558 , as , at the birth of Arphaxad , two years after the deluge , he was one hundred years ...
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... Christ and that in the reign of this race of princes those wonderful structures were raised , which cannot now be viewed without astonishment ; and of which some- thing will be said hereafter . After the death of Camby- ses , Egypt ...
... Christ and that in the reign of this race of princes those wonderful structures were raised , which cannot now be viewed without astonishment ; and of which some- thing will be said hereafter . After the death of Camby- ses , Egypt ...
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... Christians . This prince established a body of troops in Egypt , somewhat like the present janizaries , to whom he gave the name of Mamalukes ; these became a very intrepid and powerful body of men . The posteri- Egypt . 35.
... Christians . This prince established a body of troops in Egypt , somewhat like the present janizaries , to whom he gave the name of Mamalukes ; these became a very intrepid and powerful body of men . The posteri- Egypt . 35.
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... Christians in Syria and Palestine , till sultan Eraphus drove them en- tirely out of the Holy Land . When the Portuguese had discovered the route to In- dia by the Cape of Good Hope , their great general Al- buquerque endeavoured to ...
... Christians in Syria and Palestine , till sultan Eraphus drove them en- tirely out of the Holy Land . When the Portuguese had discovered the route to In- dia by the Cape of Good Hope , their great general Al- buquerque endeavoured to ...
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