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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Page 11
... called from their retreat , Adam alledged his nakedness as an apology for his disappearance . An explanation now ensued , producing a full confession on the part of the culprits , and terminating in the threatened reward of disobedience ...
... called from their retreat , Adam alledged his nakedness as an apology for his disappearance . An explanation now ensued , producing a full confession on the part of the culprits , and terminating in the threatened reward of disobedience ...
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... called it after the name of his son Enoch . Shortly after the tragical scene of Cain's resentment , his afflicted parents were consoled by the birth of ano- ther son , to whom Eve gave the name of Seth , because he was appointed instead ...
... called it after the name of his son Enoch . Shortly after the tragical scene of Cain's resentment , his afflicted parents were consoled by the birth of ano- ther son , to whom Eve gave the name of Seth , because he was appointed instead ...
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... called Chaldeans . It has been already observed , that he was born in the year . of the world 1658 , and it appears from the sacred records that he lived to the age of four hundred and thirty - eight years . As we find no circumstance ...
... called Chaldeans . It has been already observed , that he was born in the year . of the world 1658 , and it appears from the sacred records that he lived to the age of four hundred and thirty - eight years . As we find no circumstance ...
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... called a Phenician . Nimrod , the sixth son of Cush , is mentioned in the book of Genesis as a mighty one on the carth , and a mighty hunter before the Lord ; and we are there told that the beginning of his kingdom was Babel , Erech ...
... called a Phenician . Nimrod , the sixth son of Cush , is mentioned in the book of Genesis as a mighty one on the carth , and a mighty hunter before the Lord ; and we are there told that the beginning of his kingdom was Babel , Erech ...
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... called the caliph of Cairo , to whom the Saracens of Africa and Spain were subject ; but the governors of the provinces , under the caliphs of Baby- lon and Cairo , soon wrested the civil power out of their hands , who had hitherto ...
... called the caliph of Cairo , to whom the Saracens of Africa and Spain were subject ; but the governors of the provinces , under the caliphs of Baby- lon and Cairo , soon wrested the civil power out of their hands , who had hitherto ...
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