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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... Persian Monarchy The Grecian Monarchy , · 45 48 49 55 Rome .... Under Kings and Consuls - Punic Wars . The Gracchi ..... Marius and Sylla .... Pompey and Cæsar .... Triumvirate of Octavianus ... Mark Anthony and Lepidus , • 60 Under the ...
... Persian Monarchy The Grecian Monarchy , · 45 48 49 55 Rome .... Under Kings and Consuls - Punic Wars . The Gracchi ..... Marius and Sylla .... Pompey and Cæsar .... Triumvirate of Octavianus ... Mark Anthony and Lepidus , • 60 Under the ...
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... Persian historians , when they asserted that their first king Caumarras , was a son of Shem , and this idea is strictly consonant to the Mosaic accounts . Arphaxad had once considerable advantage above his brethren , in having the ...
... Persian historians , when they asserted that their first king Caumarras , was a son of Shem , and this idea is strictly consonant to the Mosaic accounts . Arphaxad had once considerable advantage above his brethren , in having the ...
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... with respect to Shem , it was fulfilled in the memorable victories of the Israelites , and the subsequent achievements of the Assyrians and Persians ; and with regard to Japhet , From the Deluge to the Building of Babel . 21.
... with respect to Shem , it was fulfilled in the memorable victories of the Israelites , and the subsequent achievements of the Assyrians and Persians ; and with regard to Japhet , From the Deluge to the Building of Babel . 21.
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... Persians ; and with regard to Japhet , we see a completion of the prophecy in the successive con- quests of the Canaanites by the Greeks and Romans , in Palestine and Phenicia , but more especially by the total subjugation of the once ...
... Persians ; and with regard to Japhet , we see a completion of the prophecy in the successive con- quests of the Canaanites by the Greeks and Romans , in Palestine and Phenicia , but more especially by the total subjugation of the once ...
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... Persia , conquered Egypt , 525 years before the birth of Christ and that in the reign of this race of princes those ... Persian government un- til Alexander the Great subdued that empire , when it be- came subject to that prince , who ...
... Persia , conquered Egypt , 525 years before the birth of Christ and that in the reign of this race of princes those ... Persian government un- til Alexander the Great subdued that empire , when it be- came subject to that prince , who ...
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