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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... soon discovered symptoms of the most opposite dispositions , the oldest being gloomy and avaricious , the youngest virtuous and ingenuous : their selected employments were also of a different nature ; Cain undertaking the labours of ...
... soon discovered symptoms of the most opposite dispositions , the oldest being gloomy and avaricious , the youngest virtuous and ingenuous : their selected employments were also of a different nature ; Cain undertaking the labours of ...
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... soon convinced of the omniscience of his holy Interrogator , who appalled his guilty soul with a full relation of his transgression , and solemnly condemned him to become a fugitive and vagabond on the earth , which , having recei- ved ...
... soon convinced of the omniscience of his holy Interrogator , who appalled his guilty soul with a full relation of his transgression , and solemnly condemned him to become a fugitive and vagabond on the earth , which , having recei- ved ...
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... soon extinguished , every prejudice was gradually obviated , and the interests of the contend- ing parties were finally united . Upon the supposition that Ham is designed by the Cronus of the Phenician history , it will appear that am ...
... soon extinguished , every prejudice was gradually obviated , and the interests of the contend- ing parties were finally united . Upon the supposition that Ham is designed by the Cronus of the Phenician history , it will appear that am ...
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... soon diffused itself in such a manner as to supercede the greatest obstacles , and finally to suggest the idea of navigation , which has rendered the faithless and tempestuous ocean subservient to the interests and ac- commodation of ...
... soon diffused itself in such a manner as to supercede the greatest obstacles , and finally to suggest the idea of navigation , which has rendered the faithless and tempestuous ocean subservient to the interests and ac- commodation of ...
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... soon after built the ce- lebrated city of Alexandria . That wonderful man pos- sessed talents which qualified him not merely to con- quer , but to govern the world , had not his pas- sions enslaved him when every thing external was sub ...
... soon after built the ce- lebrated city of Alexandria . That wonderful man pos- sessed talents which qualified him not merely to con- quer , but to govern the world , had not his pas- sions enslaved him when every thing external was sub ...
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