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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... fathers suppose him to have been bu- ried on Mount Calvary , the very spot whereon Christ , the second Adam , voluntarily suffered in behalf of his fallen creatures . After the decease of Adam , historians inform us , that the children ...
... fathers suppose him to have been bu- ried on Mount Calvary , the very spot whereon Christ , the second Adam , voluntarily suffered in behalf of his fallen creatures . After the decease of Adam , historians inform us , that the children ...
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... father and mother , who tyrannised over the weak , by dint of superior power . A similar mode of conduct ap- pears to have been adopted by some others who are adverted to in holy writ under the appellation of mighty men , or men of ...
... father and mother , who tyrannised over the weak , by dint of superior power . A similar mode of conduct ap- pears to have been adopted by some others who are adverted to in holy writ under the appellation of mighty men , or men of ...
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... father with filial decorum : in return for which they were remunerated with an ample blessing , whilst the posterity of Ham were loaded with the most dreadful curses . Subsequent to the recital of these particulars , Moses informs us ...
... father with filial decorum : in return for which they were remunerated with an ample blessing , whilst the posterity of Ham were loaded with the most dreadful curses . Subsequent to the recital of these particulars , Moses informs us ...
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... father of Abraham ; we must therefore have occasi- onal recourse to the conjectures and tradition of Jewish and christian writers , where we shall find some particu- lars worthy of attention . The birth of Shem must have happened in the ...
... father of Abraham ; we must therefore have occasi- onal recourse to the conjectures and tradition of Jewish and christian writers , where we shall find some particu- lars worthy of attention . The birth of Shem must have happened in the ...
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... father , thought proper to quit the vicinage of Mount Ararat , and to establish themselves and their 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 ...
... father , thought proper to quit the vicinage of Mount Ararat , and to establish themselves and their 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 ...
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