Outlines of History: Illustrated by Numerous Geographical and Historical Notes and Maps : Embracing : Part I. Ancient History, Part II. Modern HistoryIvison & Phinney, 1858 - 600 páginas |
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... formed of a single block of red granite , 80 feet in height , and beautifully sculptured . A few years ago one of these obelisks was taken down , and con- veyed , at great expense , to the city of Paris , where it has been erected in ...
... formed of a single block of red granite , 80 feet in height , and beautifully sculptured . A few years ago one of these obelisks was taken down , and con- veyed , at great expense , to the city of Paris , where it has been erected in ...
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... formed by the junction of the White River and the Blue River in the country of Sennaar , whence the united stream flows northward , in a very winding course , through Nubia and Egypt , and enters the Mediterranean through two mouths ...
... formed by the junction of the White River and the Blue River in the country of Sennaar , whence the united stream flows northward , in a very winding course , through Nubia and Egypt , and enters the Mediterranean through two mouths ...
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... formed one united empire under the immediate successors of the first founder ; others regard Nínus as an Assyrian prince , who , by conquering Babylón , united the hitherto separate empires , more than four hundred years after the reign ...
... formed one united empire under the immediate successors of the first founder ; others regard Nínus as an Assyrian prince , who , by conquering Babylón , united the hitherto separate empires , more than four hundred years after the reign ...
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... formed the beds of mountain lakes . The largest tracts of level country are in western Hel ' las , and along the northern and north - western shores of the Moréa . Their abrupt There are no 4. The mountains of Greece CHAP . II . ] 21 ...
... formed the beds of mountain lakes . The largest tracts of level country are in western Hel ' las , and along the northern and north - western shores of the Moréa . Their abrupt There are no 4. The mountains of Greece CHAP . II . ] 21 ...
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... formed the Æólian Con- federacy . 5. About twenty years after the Thessálian conquest , the Dórians , a Hellénic tribe , whose country , Dóris , ' a mountainous region , was on the south of Thes ' saly , being probably harassed by their ...
... formed the Æólian Con- federacy . 5. About twenty years after the Thessálian conquest , the Dórians , a Hellénic tribe , whose country , Dóris , ' a mountainous region , was on the south of Thes ' saly , being probably harassed by their ...
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Página 330 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must forever hide me. Vain pomp, and glory of this world, I hate ye ; I feel my heart new opened : O, how wretched Is that poor man, that hangs on princes...
Página 40 - And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
Página 61 - Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.
Página 348 - ... in the seventieth year of her age, and the forty-fifth of her reign.
Página 330 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
Página 12 - ... to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day, and over the night, to be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years.
Página 277 - To speak the truth, to succor the helpless and oppressed, and never to turn back from an enemy," was the first vow of the aspirant to the honors of chivalry.
Página 250 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
Página 39 - Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt...
Página 64 - Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.