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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... sent forth a raven , which flew to and fro till the earth was dry , but afforded him no satisfactory intelligence ; he therefore let out a dove three successive times , allowing seven days to elapse between each excursion . The first ...
... sent forth a raven , which flew to and fro till the earth was dry , but afforded him no satisfactory intelligence ; he therefore let out a dove three successive times , allowing seven days to elapse between each excursion . The first ...
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... sent usually made in Egypt , and other parts of the East . It seems not improbable that this pyramid was built by the Israelites , and that they also made the bricks of which it is formed ; for Josephus says , " when time had ...
... sent usually made in Egypt , and other parts of the East . It seems not improbable that this pyramid was built by the Israelites , and that they also made the bricks of which it is formed ; for Josephus says , " when time had ...
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... sent his general Rabshaken , at the head of a large army , against Jerusalem . While the siege was carrying on with vigor , and by Sennacherib in person , he was in- formed that Tirhaka , king of Ethiopia , was about to enter his ...
... sent his general Rabshaken , at the head of a large army , against Jerusalem . While the siege was carrying on with vigor , and by Sennacherib in person , he was in- formed that Tirhaka , king of Ethiopia , was about to enter his ...
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... sent by Juno , to carry them across the ocean . Helle was drowned in the passage , but Phryxus arrived safe in Colchis . Soon after Jason , with fifty or sixty of the flower of Greece , undertook to recover this fleece of the ram ...
... sent by Juno , to carry them across the ocean . Helle was drowned in the passage , but Phryxus arrived safe in Colchis . Soon after Jason , with fifty or sixty of the flower of Greece , undertook to recover this fleece of the ram ...
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... is generally known : Paris , the son of Priam , King of Troy , having been sent with a fleet to ravage the Grecian coast , succeeded in this bold enter- prize , and returned to Troy in triumph . Among 54 History of all Nations ,
... is generally known : Paris , the son of Priam , King of Troy , having been sent with a fleet to ravage the Grecian coast , succeeded in this bold enter- prize , and returned to Troy in triumph . Among 54 History of all Nations ,
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