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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... land was crowned with a rich profusion of herbage , fruits and flowers . These great occurrences having occupied the three first days , the succeeding one was devoted to an illumin- ation of the newly created globe : the face of heaven ...
... land was crowned with a rich profusion of herbage , fruits and flowers . These great occurrences having occupied the three first days , the succeeding one was devoted to an illumin- ation of the newly created globe : the face of heaven ...
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... land of Nod , where he built a city , and called it after the name of his son Enoch . Shortly after the tragical scene of Cain's resentment , his afflicted parents were consoled by the birth of ano- ther son , to whom Eve gave the name ...
... land of Nod , where he built a city , and called it after the name of his son Enoch . Shortly after the tragical scene of Cain's resentment , his afflicted parents were consoled by the birth of ano- ther son , to whom Eve gave the name ...
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... land ( Shinaar ) : went forth Ashur , and built . Nineveh and the city of Rehoboth , and Calah , and Resen , between Nineveh and Calah , the same is a great city . ” Elam may probably have been intended by the more modern Persian ...
... land ( Shinaar ) : went forth Ashur , and built . Nineveh and the city of Rehoboth , and Calah , and Resen , between Nineveh and Calah , the same is a great city . ” Elam may probably have been intended by the more modern Persian ...
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... land . Ham , in consequence of his undutiful behaviour on an occasion which should rather have excited his com- passion than his ridicule , has been considered by the generality of authors as the first introducer of impiety after the ...
... land . Ham , in consequence of his undutiful behaviour on an occasion which should rather have excited his com- passion than his ridicule , has been considered by the generality of authors as the first introducer of impiety after the ...
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... land of Shinaar . " These words seem clearly to imply that he was a person of un- common strength and courage . The term a mighty hunter , has been variously interpreted ; some under- standing that he was a great tyrant , and others ...
... land of Shinaar . " These words seem clearly to imply that he was a person of un- common strength and courage . The term a mighty hunter , has been variously interpreted ; some under- standing that he was a great tyrant , and others ...
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