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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... Final division of the Empire between the sons of Constantine ...... Establishment of the Goths in Italy ..... Charlemagne , Emperor of the West .... Fall of the Eastern Empire , 68 PAGES Germany .... Its ancient limits .... Conrad , the.
... Final division of the Empire between the sons of Constantine ...... Establishment of the Goths in Italy ..... Charlemagne , Emperor of the West .... Fall of the Eastern Empire , 68 PAGES Germany .... Its ancient limits .... Conrad , the.
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... eastern extremity of the garden , with a flaming sword that turned every way , to guard the pas- sage to the tree of life . To what part of the earth the unhappy pair removed , in consequence of this expulsion , is uncertain ; but it ...
... eastern extremity of the garden , with a flaming sword that turned every way , to guard the pas- sage to the tree of life . To what part of the earth the unhappy pair removed , in consequence of this expulsion , is uncertain ; but it ...
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... eastern nations have a tradition that he was buried in Mesopotamia , where they shew his sepulchre , in a castle near Dair Abunah , or " the monastery of our Father . " Japhet , the eldest son of Noah , ( b . C. 1998 ) was particularly ...
... eastern nations have a tradition that he was buried in Mesopotamia , where they shew his sepulchre , in a castle near Dair Abunah , or " the monastery of our Father . " Japhet , the eldest son of Noah , ( b . C. 1998 ) was particularly ...
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... east till they arrived at a plain in the land of Shinaar , which they immediately designed for their future abode . On this spot , which proved sufficiently attractive to terminate their journey , they resolved to erect a city , and a ...
... east till they arrived at a plain in the land of Shinaar , which they immediately designed for their future abode . On this spot , which proved sufficiently attractive to terminate their journey , they resolved to erect a city , and a ...
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... east . It is 600 miles in length , and nearly 300 in breadth . The Egyptians , like the Chinese , and many other of the eastern nations , maintain that they had a race of kings , the first of whom reigned many thousand years before the ...
... east . It is 600 miles in length , and nearly 300 in breadth . The Egyptians , like the Chinese , and many other of the eastern nations , maintain that they had a race of kings , the first of whom reigned many thousand years before the ...
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