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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... took the name of Ba- bel , or confusion , and the dispersion of mankind imme diately ensued . Prior to this important event , which , according to the Hebrew calculation , happened just before the birth of Peleg , in the year of the ...
... took the name of Ba- bel , or confusion , and the dispersion of mankind imme diately ensued . Prior to this important event , which , according to the Hebrew calculation , happened just before the birth of Peleg , in the year of the ...
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... 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 led his colony to Thrace . Having thus given a ...
... 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 led his colony to Thrace . Having thus given a ...
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... took place among the descendants of Cain rather than those of Seth . We also imagine that their communities were but few , and con- sisted of vast numbers of people , previous to the union of the families of Seth and Cain ; and that all ...
... took place among the descendants of Cain rather than those of Seth . We also imagine that their communities were but few , and con- sisted of vast numbers of people , previous to the union of the families of Seth and Cain ; and that all ...
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... took Jerusalem from the Christians . This prince established a body of troops in Egypt , somewhat like the present janizaries , to whom he gave the name of Mamalukes ; these became a very intrepid and powerful body of men . The posteri ...
... took Jerusalem from the Christians . This prince established a body of troops in Egypt , somewhat like the present janizaries , to whom he gave the name of Mamalukes ; these became a very intrepid and powerful body of men . The posteri ...
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... took Samaria the capital city . He then returned into Assyria , and took with him Hosea and all his subjects . Sennacherib , the next king of Assyria ( b . C. 717 ) marched into Judea , and forced king Heze- kiah to pay him a yearly ...
... took Samaria the capital city . He then returned into Assyria , and took with him Hosea and all his subjects . Sennacherib , the next king of Assyria ( b . C. 717 ) marched into Judea , and forced king Heze- kiah to pay him a yearly ...
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