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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... great obscurity.- It is little more than three thousand years since the books of MOSES , the most ancient and the only genuine record of what passed in the early ages of the world , were written . iv Herodotus is the oldest of heathen.
... great obscurity.- It is little more than three thousand years since the books of MOSES , the most ancient and the only genuine record of what passed in the early ages of the world , were written . iv Herodotus is the oldest of heathen.
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... thousand 1 ler than Moses . If we extend our enquiries 1ond the æra when written history commenced , we enter upon the re- gion of conjecture , of fable , and uncertainty . In this publication , I have taken a progressive , brief , but ...
... thousand 1 ler than Moses . If we extend our enquiries 1ond the æra when written history commenced , we enter upon the re- gion of conjecture , of fable , and uncertainty . In this publication , I have taken a progressive , brief , but ...
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... thousand years before the flood . However , it is generally agreed , that the princes of the line of the Pharaohs sat on the throne , in an uninterrupted succession , till Cambyses H. king of Persia , conquered Egypt , 525 years before ...
... thousand years before the flood . However , it is generally agreed , that the princes of the line of the Pharaohs sat on the throne , in an uninterrupted succession , till Cambyses H. king of Persia , conquered Egypt , 525 years before ...
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... thousand years . The caliphs of Babylon were the sovereigns of Egypt , till about the year 807 , when the Egyptians set up a ca- liph of their own , called the caliph of Cairo , to whom the Saracens of Africa and Spain were subject ...
... thousand years . The caliphs of Babylon were the sovereigns of Egypt , till about the year 807 , when the Egyptians set up a ca- liph of their own , called the caliph of Cairo , to whom the Saracens of Africa and Spain were subject ...
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... thousand years should return to the bo- dies they had quitted . It was for this reason that so much pains were taken to preserve the body from pu- trefaction , and that endeavours were used to retain even its form , by means of spices ...
... thousand years should return to the bo- dies they had quitted . It was for this reason that so much pains were taken to preserve the body from pu- trefaction , and that endeavours were used to retain even its form , by means of spices ...
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