A Manual of Ancient and Modern History ...D. Appleton, 1845 - 797 páginas |
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... royal family belonged to it . Certain nomes were assigned to the support of this caste , most of which were in Lower Egypt , where the country was most exposed to attack . The Egyptians were the earliest nation that organized a regular ...
... royal family belonged to it . Certain nomes were assigned to the support of this caste , most of which were in Lower Egypt , where the country was most exposed to attack . The Egyptians were the earliest nation that organized a regular ...
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... royal use . We read in the book of Joshua , that a “ Baby- lonish garment " formed part of the sacrilegious spoil which A'chan hid in his tent after the conquest of Jericho . Articles of luxury , such as perfumed waters , carved walking ...
... royal use . We read in the book of Joshua , that a “ Baby- lonish garment " formed part of the sacrilegious spoil which A'chan hid in his tent after the conquest of Jericho . Articles of luxury , such as perfumed waters , carved walking ...
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... royal authority , and to secure her power , murdered all the royal family , save the infant Jehóash , who was saved by his paternal aunt , wife to the chief priest Jehoíada , and for six years secretly educated in the temple . At the ...
... royal authority , and to secure her power , murdered all the royal family , save the infant Jehóash , who was saved by his paternal aunt , wife to the chief priest Jehoíada , and for six years secretly educated in the temple . At the ...
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... royal tribe of the Pasargádæ . The issue of this union was Agrad'ates , subsequently named Cy'rus , Khorésh , or Khosrau , different forms of a Persian word which signifies the sun . The main facts of the romantic legend that Herodotus ...
... royal tribe of the Pasargádæ . The issue of this union was Agrad'ates , subsequently named Cy'rus , Khorésh , or Khosrau , different forms of a Persian word which signifies the sun . The main facts of the romantic legend that Herodotus ...
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... royal forces were often defeated and the empire kept in a state of turbulence and confusion . On the death of Artaxerxes ( B. c . 424 ) , his only legitimate son , Xerxes , ascended the throne ; but within forty - five days was mur ...
... royal forces were often defeated and the empire kept in a state of turbulence and confusion . On the death of Artaxerxes ( B. c . 424 ) , his only legitimate son , Xerxes , ascended the throne ; but within forty - five days was mur ...
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Página 40 - So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets. And it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
Página 178 - John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire...
Página 179 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul : neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own } but they had all things common.
Página 179 - Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, and cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, las he was] calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
Página 171 - But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.
Página 44 - Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her.
Página 759 - ... where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? and let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Página 587 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern famine guards the solitary coast, And winter barricades the realms of frost; He comes, nor want nor cold his course delay; Hide, blushing glory, hide Pultowa's day: The...
Página 179 - And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
Página 42 - And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king.