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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... arms ; in consequence of which we suppose Ashur to have been driven from Shinaar , when he went and formed Nineveh , and other ci- ties in Assyria . Various conjectures have been formed , concerning the time and manner of Nimrod's death ...
... arms ; in consequence of which we suppose Ashur to have been driven from Shinaar , when he went and formed Nineveh , and other ci- ties in Assyria . Various conjectures have been formed , concerning the time and manner of Nimrod's death ...
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... arms of Selim I. in 1515 , who formed a treaty with the Vene- tians , and granted them great commercial immunities . Ever since this contest the Turks have retained posses sion of Egypt . Ancient Egypt was supposed to contain eight ...
... arms of Selim I. in 1515 , who formed a treaty with the Vene- tians , and granted them great commercial immunities . Ever since this contest the Turks have retained posses sion of Egypt . Ancient Egypt was supposed to contain eight ...
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... arms had reduced to the Assy- rian empire : He soon returned to put his threat in exe- cution but a destroying angel , according to the figura- tive language of Holy Writ , to express the Divine in- terposition , visited his camp and ...
... arms had reduced to the Assy- rian empire : He soon returned to put his threat in exe- cution but a destroying angel , according to the figura- tive language of Holy Writ , to express the Divine in- terposition , visited his camp and ...
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... of this monarch , having subdued all the other Grecian states , extended his victorious arms from the Hellespont to the Indies , C and gave law to the whole eastern world . He The Grecian Monarchy . 49 The Grecian Monarchy,
... of this monarch , having subdued all the other Grecian states , extended his victorious arms from the Hellespont to the Indies , C and gave law to the whole eastern world . He The Grecian Monarchy . 49 The Grecian Monarchy,
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... arms , but with the same ill success : in this war , which lasted six years , Fabricius did his country great honor in sending back Pyrrhus ' physician , prisoner , who had offered to poison his master ( b . C. 272. ) Till this time ...
... arms , but with the same ill success : in this war , which lasted six years , Fabricius did his country great honor in sending back Pyrrhus ' physician , prisoner , who had offered to poison his master ( b . C. 272. ) Till this time ...
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