Universal History, Ancient and Modern: From the Earliest Records of Time, to the General Peace of 1801, Volumen2Isaac Collins and sons, 1804 |
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... Hyrcan deeming it imprudent to continue at Gazara after the assassination of his father and brethren , advanced with all possible haste towards Jerusalem , where the murderer arrived as soon as he , and demanded admittance at the same ...
... Hyrcan deeming it imprudent to continue at Gazara after the assassination of his father and brethren , advanced with all possible haste towards Jerusalem , where the murderer arrived as soon as he , and demanded admittance at the same ...
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... Hyrcan finding , on the death of Anti- ochus , that the kingdom of Syria was rent with intestine commotions , marched thi- ther with a considerable army , in order to seize upon some of the defenceless cities . He ac- cordingly reduced ...
... Hyrcan finding , on the death of Anti- ochus , that the kingdom of Syria was rent with intestine commotions , marched thi- ther with a considerable army , in order to seize upon some of the defenceless cities . He ac- cordingly reduced ...
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... Hyrcan now enjoyed his sovereign authority without any disturbance , and continued to amass immense treasures by the tributes he received from his own flourishing country , and those recently subjected to his dominion . At length , some ...
... Hyrcan now enjoyed his sovereign authority without any disturbance , and continued to amass immense treasures by the tributes he received from his own flourishing country , and those recently subjected to his dominion . At length , some ...
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... Hyrcan's will , was barbarously starved to death ; and her other sons were kept in close confinement : while this tyrannical persecutor as- sumed the royal diadem , which had not been worn by any of his predecessors , and effected the ...
... Hyrcan's will , was barbarously starved to death ; and her other sons were kept in close confinement : while this tyrannical persecutor as- sumed the royal diadem , which had not been worn by any of his predecessors , and effected the ...
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... Hyrcan to the queen , and conjured her to take some reso- lution in the desperate posture of their affairs . Alexandra was then in the agonies of death , and had but just strength enough to tell them , she left it wholly to them to ...
... Hyrcan to the queen , and conjured her to take some reso- lution in the desperate posture of their affairs . Alexandra was then in the agonies of death , and had but just strength enough to tell them , she left it wholly to them to ...
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Página 351 - The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds
Página 351 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. 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...
Página 65 - And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above ; and by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother ; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Página 79 - And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them ; and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived : And Israel said, It is enough ; Joseph my son is yet alive : I will go and see him before I die.
Página 18 - Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the Lord is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant. And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
Página 348 - Nebuchadnezzar embellished it, and made it one of the wonders of the world. The most famous works in and about it were, the walls of the city, the temple of Belus, Nebuchadnezzar's palace, the hanging gardens, the banks of the river, the artificial lake, and the canals. The walls were 87 feet thick, 350 feet high, and...
Página 101 - And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river...
Página 348 - ... or convenience. A branch of the Euphrates divided the city into two, running through the midft of it, from north to fouth, over •which, in the very middle of the city, was a bridge, a furlong in length ", or...
Página 76 - And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Página 356 - The joy of this feast was greatly disturbed by a vision, and .still more so by the explication which Daniel gave of it to the king. The sentence written upon the wall imported, that his kingdom was taken from him, and given to the Medes and Persians.