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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... manner , and our progenitors were warned by their Creator to avoid the only danger that could befal them . Fortified with such a caution , and situated in a para- dise which God himself vouchsafed to honor with his immediate presence ...
... manner , and our progenitors were warned by their Creator to avoid the only danger that could befal them . Fortified with such a caution , and situated in a para- dise which God himself vouchsafed to honor with his immediate presence ...
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... manner , that he knew not where he was , and churlishly asked , whether he was to be con- sidered as his brother's keeper ? But he was soon convinced of the omniscience of his holy Interrogator , who appalled his guilty soul with a full ...
... manner , that he knew not where he was , and churlishly asked , whether he was to be con- sidered as his brother's keeper ? But he was soon convinced of the omniscience of his holy Interrogator , who appalled his guilty soul with a full ...
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... some intermarriages with that family , their manners gradually degenerated , till , at length , their wickedness was great in the earth , and ev- ery imagination of their hearts was polluted with ini- quity 14 History of all Nations ,
... some intermarriages with that family , their manners gradually degenerated , till , at length , their wickedness was great in the earth , and ev- ery imagination of their hearts was polluted with ini- quity 14 History of all Nations ,
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... manner to avoid cursing Ham , whom God had so recently blessed on his quitting the ark ; others are for extending the curse both to Ham and his descendants , whom they therefore consider as the progenitors of the blacks ! and a third ...
... manner to avoid cursing Ham , whom God had so recently blessed on his quitting the ark ; others are for extending the curse both to Ham and his descendants , whom they therefore consider as the progenitors of the blacks ! and a third ...
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... manner of Nimrod's death ; some pretending that he fell by the hand of Esau , whom they make his contemporary ; and others affirming that he perished amidst the ruins of Babel , which was over- thrown by a violent hurricane . Scripture ...
... manner of Nimrod's death ; some pretending that he fell by the hand of Esau , whom they make his contemporary ; and others affirming that he perished amidst the ruins of Babel , which was over- thrown by a violent hurricane . Scripture ...
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