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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... families on some other part of the earth . With this design they tra- velled from the 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 ...
... families on some other part of the earth . With this design they tra- velled from the 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 ...
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... families of Seth and Cain ; and that all mankind , subsequent to that imprudent junction , constituted but one great nation , divided into several disorderly associa- tions , and living in a state of anarchy , which indisputa- bly ...
... families of Seth and Cain ; and that all mankind , subsequent to that imprudent junction , constituted but one great nation , divided into several disorderly associa- tions , and living in a state of anarchy , which indisputa- bly ...
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... families un- der their fathers ; and in case of any dispute between the three chief families , an appeal must have been made to Noah , as the only common and acknowledged um- pire . This unity of government was however dissolved at the ...
... families un- der their fathers ; and in case of any dispute between the three chief families , an appeal must have been made to Noah , as the only common and acknowledged um- pire . This unity of government was however dissolved at the ...
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... families 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 ...
... families 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 ...
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... families , without designing any far- ther improvements . They were also frequently obliged to wander from one place to another , in quest of a more convenient residence , and therefore it is sufficiently ob- vious that a considerable ...
... families , without designing any far- ther improvements . They were also frequently obliged to wander from one place to another , in quest of a more convenient residence , and therefore it is sufficiently ob- vious that a considerable ...
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