A Manual of Ancient HistoryVan Antwerp, Bragg, 1872 - 376 pages |
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Mary Elsie Thalheimer. Sources of History . CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION . Dispersion of Races ; Periods and Divisions of History . Auxiliary Sciences : Chronology and Geography . BOOK I. PAGE 9 . 10 . 11 . Asiatic and African Nations , from ...
Mary Elsie Thalheimer. Sources of History . CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION . Dispersion of Races ; Periods and Divisions of History . Auxiliary Sciences : Chronology and Geography . BOOK I. PAGE 9 . 10 . 11 . Asiatic and African Nations , from ...
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... races of men have disappeared from the globe , leaving no records in- scribed either upon stone or parchment ... race by a flood ; the vain attempt of Noah's descendants to avert similar punishment in future by building a “ city ...
... races of men have disappeared from the globe , leaving no records in- scribed either upon stone or parchment ... race by a flood ; the vain attempt of Noah's descendants to avert similar punishment in future by building a “ city ...
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... race into its three great families , and describing their earliest migrations .. 5. The family of SHEM , which was appointed to guard the true primeval faith , remained near the original home in south - western Asia . Of the de ...
... race into its three great families , and describing their earliest migrations .. 5. The family of SHEM , which was appointed to guard the true primeval faith , remained near the original home in south - western Asia . Of the de ...
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... great city of the Aryan race . 15. SOUTHERN ASIA may be divided into eastern and western sections by the Indus River . The eastern portion was scarcely known to the Persians , Greeks , and Romans ; and materials are ( 13 )
... great city of the Aryan race . 15. SOUTHERN ASIA may be divided into eastern and western sections by the Indus River . The eastern portion was scarcely known to the Persians , Greeks , and Romans ; and materials are ( 13 )
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... race , and the chief of men in the gratitude and allegiance of his fellows was he who reduced their numbers . Nimrod founded not only Babylon , but E'rech , or O'rchoë , Ac'cad , and Cal'neh . The Chaldæans continued to be notable ...
... race , and the chief of men in the gratitude and allegiance of his fellows was he who reduced their numbers . Nimrod founded not only Babylon , but E'rech , or O'rchoë , Ac'cad , and Cal'neh . The Chaldæans continued to be notable ...
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Achæan Africa Alexander alliance allies ancient Antigonus Antiochus army Artaxerxes Asia Minor Asiatic Athenians Athens Attica Babylon battle became Boeotia brother Cæsar Campania Cappadocia captured Carthage Carthaginians Cassander citizens civil coast colonies command conquered conquests consuls Corinth Cyrus Darius defeated Demetrius dominion East Egypt Egyptian emperor empire enemy Etruscans exiled father fleet forces gained Gauls gods Grecian Greece Greeks Hannibal Hellespont honor invaded island Italy Jerusalem Judæa king kingdom land later laws League Lysimachus Macedon Macedonian marched Mardonius Messenians military Mithridates monarch mountains murdered nobles officers patricians peace Peloponnesus peninsula Persian Philip Phoenician plebeians Pompey possession priests prince provinces Ptolemy put to death Pyrrhus race RECAPITULATION reign revolt rival Roman Rome sacred Samnites satrap seized Seleucus Senate sent Sicily siege slain soldiers Spartans Syria temple territory Thebans Thebes Themistocles Thrace throne tribes troops victory walls wars western worship Xerxes
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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.