Universal History, Ancient and Modern: From the Earliest Records of Time, to the General Peace of 1801, Volumen2Isaac Collins and sons, 1803 |
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... appears a steep and craggy mountain , on the summit of which are two cha- pels . There are also several gloomy caverns in the neighbourhood , formerly the solitary retreat of Christian anchorets . Under this class must also be ranked ...
... appears a steep and craggy mountain , on the summit of which are two cha- pels . There are also several gloomy caverns in the neighbourhood , formerly the solitary retreat of Christian anchorets . Under this class must also be ranked ...
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... appear like a succession of huge rocks . About half a mile east of the town is a curious pyramidal hill , so improved by art , that its steepness renders it altogether inaccessible , ex- cept on the south - west side . On this eminence ...
... appear like a succession of huge rocks . About half a mile east of the town is a curious pyramidal hill , so improved by art , that its steepness renders it altogether inaccessible , ex- cept on the south - west side . On this eminence ...
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... appear to have been a work of immense cost and labour . Such are also the sealed foun- tains immediately opposite . These pools are three in a row , one over the other , and disposed in such a manner that the water of the uppermost may ...
... appear to have been a work of immense cost and labour . Such are also the sealed foun- tains immediately opposite . These pools are three in a row , one over the other , and disposed in such a manner that the water of the uppermost may ...
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... other parts of these rooms , and even the doors appear to have been cut out of the very piece to which they hang . Why these grots are honoured with the appellation of the sepulchres of the kings is not exactly known JEWS . 31.
... other parts of these rooms , and even the doors appear to have been cut out of the very piece to which they hang . Why these grots are honoured with the appellation of the sepulchres of the kings is not exactly known JEWS . 31.
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... appears to have been a place of considerable strength and importance . Upon the first division of " The promised Land , " it fell to the lot of Judah , but was afterwards given to the tribe of Dan . Ashdod was a famous port on the ...
... appears to have been a place of considerable strength and importance . Upon the first division of " The promised Land , " it fell to the lot of Judah , but was afterwards given to the tribe of Dan . Ashdod was a famous port on the ...
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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 - 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 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 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 100 - ... brought water out of the rock, and gave you a law from heaven. 12 Ye provoked him all ways, and desired for yourselves a molten calf, and worshipped it, and sacrificed to it, and said, These are thy Gods, O Israel, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt...
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 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...