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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... Inhabitants ... Discovery of the Portuguese · 102 in the Fifteenth Century .... Freed from the Spanish Yoke , 109 Poland .... Situation ..... Lech ..... Dukes .... Woywoods .... Cracus Piast .... Third Race of Kings .... Demolition ...
... Inhabitants ... Discovery of the Portuguese · 102 in the Fifteenth Century .... Freed from the Spanish Yoke , 109 Poland .... Situation ..... Lech ..... Dukes .... Woywoods .... Cracus Piast .... Third Race of Kings .... Demolition ...
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... inhabitants . The appointed time of vengeance being come , and the ark completed , Noah went on board , in the year of the world sixteen hundred and fifty - six , with his wife , his sons and his daughters - in - law , taking with him ...
... inhabitants . The appointed time of vengeance being come , and the ark completed , Noah went on board , in the year of the world sixteen hundred and fifty - six , with his wife , his sons and his daughters - in - law , taking with him ...
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... Typhon signifies a deluge , in conse . quence of which the Egyptian Priests gave that name to the sea . The inhabitants of Heliopolis in Syria are said C to have shewn a chasm in the earth in the From the Creation to the Deluge . 17.
... Typhon signifies a deluge , in conse . quence of which the Egyptian Priests gave that name to the sea . The inhabitants of Heliopolis in Syria are said C to have shewn a chasm in the earth in the From the Creation to the Deluge . 17.
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... inhabitants than the present earth is capable of con- taining and , indeed , this idea seems tolerably well founded , when we consider the surprizing length of men's lives previous to the deluge , and the numerous generations that were ...
... inhabitants than the present earth is capable of con- taining and , indeed , this idea seems tolerably well founded , when we consider the surprizing length of men's lives previous to the deluge , and the numerous generations that were ...
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... the Vene- tians , and granted them great commercial immunities . Ever since this contest the Turks have retained posses sion of Egypt . Ancient Egypt was supposed to contain eight millions of inhabitants 36 History of all Nations ,
... the Vene- tians , and granted them great commercial immunities . Ever since this contest the Turks have retained posses sion of Egypt . Ancient Egypt was supposed to contain eight millions of inhabitants 36 History of all Nations ,
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