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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... five months , when they rose to the elevation of twenty - seven feet above the summits of the highest mountains . Towards the end of the ensuing month , Noah opened one of the windows of the ark , and sent forth a raven , which flew to ...
... five months , when they rose to the elevation of twenty - seven feet above the summits of the highest mountains . Towards the end of the ensuing month , Noah opened one of the windows of the ark , and sent forth a raven , which flew to ...
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... five of our present time . Having thus given a concise account of the universal deluge , with a strict regard to the word of God , we feel it our duty to lay such particulars before our rea- ders as , being gathered from profane authors ...
... five of our present time . Having thus given a concise account of the universal deluge , with a strict regard to the word of God , we feel it our duty to lay such particulars before our rea- ders as , being gathered from profane authors ...
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... five hundred and two years after the flood , and to have died in the six hundredth year of his age , leaving behind him five sons ; viz . Elam , Ashur , Arphaxad , Lud , and Aram ; the second of whom became the founder of the Assyrian ...
... five hundred and two years after the flood , and to have died in the six hundredth year of his age , leaving behind him five sons ; viz . Elam , Ashur , Arphaxad , Lud , and Aram ; the second of whom became the founder of the Assyrian ...
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... five sons already mentioned , Selah the son of Arphaxad , and Eber the son of Selah , who seem to have settled from Media westward to the sea coast of Aram or Syria . Elam fixed his habitation in the country of Elam , lying to the ...
... five sons already mentioned , Selah the son of Arphaxad , and Eber the son of Selah , who seem to have settled from Media westward to the sea coast of Aram or Syria . Elam fixed his habitation in the country of Elam , lying to the ...
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... but a destroying angel , according to the figura- tive language of Holy Writ , to express the Divine in- terposition , visited his camp and slew one hundred and eighty - five thousand of his soldiers . * This The Assyrian Empire . 47.
... but a destroying angel , according to the figura- tive language of Holy Writ , to express the Divine in- terposition , visited his camp and slew one hundred and eighty - five thousand of his soldiers . * This The Assyrian Empire . 47.
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