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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... authorities in . the English language ; parti- cularly the Rev. Doctors Mavor and Turner , and Mr. John Payne . Mr. John Crookes , of New - York , has also rendered me some valuable assistance . To these gentle . men it is but common ...
... authorities in . the English language ; parti- cularly the Rev. Doctors Mavor and Turner , and Mr. John Payne . Mr. John Crookes , of New - York , has also rendered me some valuable assistance . To these gentle . men it is but common ...
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... authority to decide these points , we shall proceed to the consideration of his descendants . Cush , his eldest son , is mentioned by the ancients as the father of the Ethio- pians , who in the time of Josephus was generally distin ...
... authority to decide these points , we shall proceed to the consideration of his descendants . Cush , his eldest son , is mentioned by the ancients as the father of the Ethio- pians , who in the time of Josephus was generally distin ...
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... authority for the decision of their dis- putes , and the termination of their little dissensions , it is sufficiently obvious that the descendants of the pa- triarchs would voluntarily submit , when grown up , to the government and ...
... authority for the decision of their dis- putes , and the termination of their little dissensions , it is sufficiently obvious that the descendants of the pa- triarchs would voluntarily submit , when grown up , to the government and ...
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... authority , and exe- cute such laws as were best adapted to the peace and prosperity of the community . The recollection of the patriarchal government , and the happy effects which re- sulted from it , were sufficiently impressed on the ...
... authority , and exe- cute such laws as were best adapted to the peace and prosperity of the community . The recollection of the patriarchal government , and the happy effects which re- sulted from it , were sufficiently impressed on the ...
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... authority , is , that the Hebrew , Sy- riac , and Egyptian languages were formed as early as the time of Jacob and it seems probable , that the lan- guages of the chief families were fundamentally different from each other , though the ...
... authority , is , that the Hebrew , Sy- riac , and Egyptian languages were formed as early as the time of Jacob and it seems probable , that the lan- guages of the chief families were fundamentally different from each other , though the ...
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