A Manual of Ancient HistoryWilson, Hinkle, 1872 - 376 pages |
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... persons from the walls of palaces and tombs . Nor is the new knowledge of little value . If we look familiarly into the daily life of our fellow - men thousands of years ago , it is to find them toiling at the same problems which ...
... persons from the walls of palaces and tombs . Nor is the new knowledge of little value . If we look familiarly into the daily life of our fellow - men thousands of years ago , it is to find them toiling at the same problems which ...
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... person , the reputed founder of Nineveh . The time B. C. 771-753 . B. C. 753-745 . 31. Asshur - danin - il II was less warlike than his ancestors . of his reign is ascertained by an eclipse of the sun , which the inscriptions place in ...
... person , the reputed founder of Nineveh . The time B. C. 771-753 . B. C. 753-745 . 31. Asshur - danin - il II was less warlike than his ancestors . of his reign is ascertained by an eclipse of the sun , which the inscriptions place in ...
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... persons of the royal family , among whom was the prophet Daniel . But B. C. 608 . B. C. 605 . 47. During his son's campaign , Nabopolassar had died at Babylon , and the victorious prince was immediately acknowledged as B. C. 604-561 ...
... persons of the royal family , among whom was the prophet Daniel . But B. C. 608 . B. C. 605 . 47. During his son's campaign , Nabopolassar had died at Babylon , and the victorious prince was immediately acknowledged as B. C. 604-561 ...
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... person to punish his treachery . He besieged Jerusalem eighteen months , and captured Zedekiah , who , with true Eastern cruelty , was com- pelled to see his two sons murdered before his eyes were put out , and he was carried in chains ...
... person to punish his treachery . He besieged Jerusalem eighteen months , and captured Zedekiah , who , with true Eastern cruelty , was com- pelled to see his two sons murdered before his eyes were put out , and he was carried in chains ...
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... persons in comparatively humble stations , but the one of whom was blessed with dutiful children , and the other had died a triumphant and glorious death . The vanity of Crœsus could no longer abstain from a direct effort to extort a ...
... persons in comparatively humble stations , but the one of whom was blessed with dutiful children , and the other had died a triumphant and glorious death . The vanity of Crœsus could no longer abstain from a direct effort to extort a ...
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Page 27 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. 29 At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. 30 The king spake, and said, is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty? 31 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; the kingdom is departed from thee.
Page 27 - Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment : and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Page 27 - And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing : and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth : and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou...
Page 27 - ... the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Page 44 - The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, "Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
Page 27 - ... but When his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: and he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the Wild asses ; they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of Heaven...
Page 40 - Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Page 27 - And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation...
Page vii - Lectures on the History of Rome, from the Earliest Times to the Fall of the Western Empire.
Page 87 - Says Darius the king : — There was not a man, neither Persian, nor Median, nor any one of our family, who would dispossess of the empire that Gomates the Magian.