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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... began to fall , which descended without in- termission forty days and forty nights . The waters also increased gradually during the space of five months , when they rose to the elevation of twenty - seven feet above the summits of the ...
... began to fall , which descended without in- termission forty days and forty nights . The waters also increased gradually during the space of five months , when they rose to the elevation of twenty - seven feet above the summits of the ...
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... began to extend their plantations , and to build towns or villages , it be- came indispensably necessary that the government of each society should be settled in one person , who might re - unite the chiefs under the same authority ...
... began to extend their plantations , and to build towns or villages , it be- came indispensably necessary that the government of each society should be settled in one person , who might re - unite the chiefs under the same authority ...
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... began to make some disturbance in the earth even during the life of Noah , who was expelled from his set- tlement by his ungrateful son . But the first act of usur- pation recorded in the sacred volume , is that of Nim- rod , who ...
... began to make some disturbance in the earth even during the life of Noah , who was expelled from his set- tlement by his ungrateful son . But the first act of usur- pation recorded in the sacred volume , is that of Nim- rod , who ...
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... began to turn her views to the acquisition of Sicily . Carthage , possessed of considerable settlements in that island , ex- cited their jealousy ; and it having given assistance to the southern parts of Italy against the Romans , was ...
... began to turn her views to the acquisition of Sicily . Carthage , possessed of considerable settlements in that island , ex- cited their jealousy ; and it having given assistance to the southern parts of Italy against the Romans , was ...
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... began with Com- modus , continued for about a century , till the accession of Dioclesian ; we will therefore pass over the unin- structive reigns of Heliogabalus , Maximinus , Gordianus , Decius 66 History of all Nations ,
... began with Com- modus , continued for about a century , till the accession of Dioclesian ; we will therefore pass over the unin- structive reigns of Heliogabalus , Maximinus , Gordianus , Decius 66 History of all Nations ,
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