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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... supposed this event to have happened in the reign of Xisthrus , who being warned in a dream that mankind should be destroyed by a flood , built a vessel of extraordinary dimensions , and by that means preserved himself and his family ...
... supposed this event to have happened in the reign of Xisthrus , who being warned in a dream that mankind should be destroyed by a flood , built a vessel of extraordinary dimensions , and by that means preserved himself and his family ...
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... supposed that Noah expressed himself in this 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 ...
... supposed that Noah expressed himself in this 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 ...
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... supposed to have been the first man who obtained the regal dignity after the flood : ( b . C. 1998 ) and the four cities mentioned by Moses constituted an extensive kingdom in those early times , when few kings could boast of more than ...
... supposed to have been the first man who obtained the regal dignity after the flood : ( b . C. 1998 ) and the four cities mentioned by Moses constituted an extensive kingdom in those early times , when few kings could boast of more than ...
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... supposed to be the same with Ararat . Ham is supposed to have quitted Shinaar , on the ill success of the popular undertaking , and to have obtained the sovereignty of Phenicia ; this opinion is at least con- sistent with the idea of ...
... supposed to be the same with Ararat . Ham is supposed to have quitted Shinaar , on the ill success of the popular undertaking , and to have obtained the sovereignty of Phenicia ; this opinion is at least con- sistent with the idea of ...
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... supposed to have planted Media ; Javan probably took up his abode near Ionia , in the south west part of the lesser Asia : Tubal and Mesheck are supposed to have resided near their brother Magog and Tiras is universally believed to have ...
... supposed to have planted Media ; Javan probably took up his abode near Ionia , in the south west part of the lesser Asia : Tubal and Mesheck are supposed to have resided near their brother Magog and Tiras is universally believed to have ...
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