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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... according to Moses ' inspired narration . Of the first creation of the heaven and the earth there is no particular description in the sacred volume : nor was it requisite that the inspired author of the Penta- teuch should express ...
... according to Moses ' inspired narration . Of the first creation of the heaven and the earth there is no particular description in the sacred volume : nor was it requisite that the inspired author of the Penta- teuch should express ...
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... according to his desire , in a certain cave on the summit of a mountain : St. Jerome stations his remains in the cave of Machpelah ; and the general- ity of the primitive fathers suppose him to have been bu- ried on Mount Calvary , the ...
... according to his desire , in a certain cave on the summit of a mountain : St. Jerome stations his remains in the cave of Machpelah ; and the general- ity of the primitive fathers suppose him to have been bu- ried on Mount Calvary , the ...
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... according to Ovid , Deucalion and Pyrrha alone were saved . The Chinese also have some notions of the flood , and of the providential escape of a single family from its destroying effects . The American Aborigines are said to ...
... according to Ovid , Deucalion and Pyrrha alone were saved . The Chinese also have some notions of the flood , and of the providential escape of a single family from its destroying effects . The American Aborigines are said to ...
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... according to this ex- press declaration of Moses " Out of the land ( Shinaar ) : went forth Ashur , and built . Nineveh and the city of Rehoboth , and Calah , and Resen , between Nineveh and Calah , the same is a great city . ” Elam may ...
... according to this ex- press declaration of Moses " Out of the land ( Shinaar ) : went forth Ashur , and built . Nineveh and the city of Rehoboth , and Calah , and Resen , between Nineveh and Calah , the same is a great city . ” Elam may ...
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... according to scripture , we may sup- pose to have been the fourth son of Ham , is believed to have lived and died in the country distinguished by his name , where his tomb was formerly shewn in a cave of the mountain of Leopards , at a ...
... according to scripture , we may sup- pose to have been the fourth son of Ham , is believed to have lived and died in the country distinguished by his name , where his tomb was formerly shewn in a cave of the mountain of Leopards , at a ...
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