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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... possessions which fell to the poste- rity of Japhet in different parts of the world : in the over- throw of the Assyrian empire by the Medes , in conjunc- tion with the Babylonians ; and , finally , in the subjuga- tion of the ...
... possessions which fell to the poste- rity of Japhet in different parts of the world : in the over- throw of the Assyrian empire by the Medes , in conjunc- tion with the Babylonians ; and , finally , in the subjuga- tion of the ...
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... possession of the promised 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 ...
... possession of the promised 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 ...
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... possessed all the virtues of the antediluvians , fell short of the age of his forefathers by three hundred years , because the greater part of his life was passed after his egression from the ark . From these considerations , therefore ...
... possessed all the virtues of the antediluvians , fell short of the age of his forefathers by three hundred years , because the greater part of his life was passed after his egression from the ark . From these considerations , therefore ...
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... possessions were added to those of the conqueror , who , elated with victory , or thirsting for fu- ture glory , led forth his combatants to other enterprizes , and by uniting several territories , formed a kingdom of greater or smaller ...
... possessions were added to those of the conqueror , who , elated with victory , or thirsting for fu- ture glory , led forth his combatants to other enterprizes , and by uniting several territories , formed a kingdom of greater or smaller ...
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... possessions , and com- pelled him to remove from Shinaar into Assyria . This revolution , however , which is supposed to have hap- pened about thirty years after the dispersion , extended no further than to some of the newly planted ...
... possessions , and com- pelled him to remove from Shinaar into Assyria . This revolution , however , which is supposed to have hap- pened about thirty years after the dispersion , extended no further than to some of the newly planted ...
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