Parallel Universal History: Being an Outline of the History and Biography of the World, Divided Into PeriodsWhittaker, 1838 - 654 páginas |
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... chief office of the priesthood was made hereditary in his family . SECTION II . THE RULE OF JOSHUA . 1451 TO 1426-25 YEARS . Joshua , the son of Nun , and chief captain of Moses , succeeded the law- giver as leader , and proved himself ...
... chief office of the priesthood was made hereditary in his family . SECTION II . THE RULE OF JOSHUA . 1451 TO 1426-25 YEARS . Joshua , the son of Nun , and chief captain of Moses , succeeded the law- giver as leader , and proved himself ...
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... chief of the Grecian forces against Troy ; and on his return , after its fall , his wife , assisted by her paramour , murdered him . Circe , daughter of Sol , was famed as a sorceress . Her subjects banished her for the murder of her ...
... chief of the Grecian forces against Troy ; and on his return , after its fall , his wife , assisted by her paramour , murdered him . Circe , daughter of Sol , was famed as a sorceress . Her subjects banished her for the murder of her ...
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... chief Philistines assembled to offer sacrifice to Dagon , their idol , and to thank him for delivering Samson into their power . The captive was accord- ingly brought into the temple to make them sport ; and having directed the lad who ...
... chief Philistines assembled to offer sacrifice to Dagon , their idol , and to thank him for delivering Samson into their power . The captive was accord- ingly brought into the temple to make them sport ; and having directed the lad who ...
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... chief officers to fight neither treated the Almighty to show that he with small nor great , save only with was the Lord God , a fire came down the king of Israel . ' Now Ahab said from heaven and consumed the sacri- to Jehoshaphat , I ...
... chief officers to fight neither treated the Almighty to show that he with small nor great , save only with was the Lord God , a fire came down the king of Israel . ' Now Ahab said from heaven and consumed the sacri- to Jehoshaphat , I ...
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... chief city . Before the him two years in Nineveh ; when , death of Arsaces both these governors despairing of escape , the monarch set declared themselves independent ; so fire to his palace , and fell a sacri- that the three distinct ...
... chief city . Before the him two years in Nineveh ; when , death of Arsaces both these governors despairing of escape , the monarch set declared themselves independent ; so fire to his palace , and fell a sacri- that the three distinct ...
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Página 67 - And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.
Página 67 - Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring ; for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.
Página 29 - Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD; it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God: let not man prevail against thee.
Página 493 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street: On with the dance! let joy be unconfined: No sleep till morn when youth and pleasure meet, To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
Página 34 - Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets ; give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver and two changes of garments.
Página 34 - Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
Página 493 - No sleep till morn when youth and pleasure meet, To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. But hark that heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before ! Arm! arm! it is — it is the cannon's opening roar! Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain: he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with death's prophetic ear...
Página 348 - At these words the child looked very steadfastly upon him. " Mark, child ! what I say ; they will cut off my head, and perhaps make thee a king ; but mark what I say, thou must not be a king as long as thy brothers Charles and James are alive. They will cut off thy brothers' heads when they can catch them. And thy head, too, they will cut off at last. Therefore, I charge thee, do not be made a king by them.
Página 34 - And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
Página 538 - Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up, the gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick.