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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... raised an altar , whereupon he sacrificed to the gods . The Egyptians were no strangers to this general destruction by water . The history of Osiris and Typhon mentions the very day when Osiris was shut up in the ark ; the name of ...
... raised an altar , whereupon he sacrificed to the gods . The Egyptians were no strangers to this general destruction by water . The history of Osiris and Typhon mentions the very day when Osiris was shut up in the ark ; the name of ...
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... raise and invigorate the spirits of the Israelites , who were appointed to engage and finally vanquish the children of Canaan , previous to their complete possession of the promised land . Ham , in consequence of his undutiful behaviour ...
... raise and invigorate the spirits of the Israelites , who were appointed to engage and finally vanquish the children of Canaan , previous to their complete possession of the promised land . Ham , in consequence of his undutiful behaviour ...
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... raised , which cannot now be viewed without astonishment ; and of which some- thing will be said hereafter . After the death of Camby- ses , Egypt continued under the Persian government un- til Alexander the Great subdued that empire ...
... raised , which cannot now be viewed without astonishment ; and of which some- thing will be said hereafter . After the death of Camby- ses , Egypt continued under the Persian government un- til Alexander the Great subdued that empire ...
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... raising the stones . It is supposed to have been erected about or before Solomon's temple , or 860 years before Christ . M. Maillet sup- poses the pyramid to be a vast Mausoleum : that in the upper chamber the body of the king was ...
... raising the stones . It is supposed to have been erected about or before Solomon's temple , or 860 years before Christ . M. Maillet sup- poses the pyramid to be a vast Mausoleum : that in the upper chamber the body of the king was ...
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... raise dykes , and to erect fantastical pyramids . " Jos . Ant . lib . II . chap . ix . Many learned men have been of opinion that these pyramids were erected for the purpose of making as tronomical observations , and to serve as sun ...
... raise dykes , and to erect fantastical pyramids . " Jos . Ant . lib . II . chap . ix . Many learned men have been of opinion that these pyramids were erected for the purpose of making as tronomical observations , and to serve as sun ...
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