Outlines of Ancient and Modern History on a New Plan: Embracing Biographical Notices of Illustrious Persons and General Views of the Geography, Population, Politics ... of Ancient and Modern NationsBelknap and Hamersley, 1844 |
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... important facts of each are stated in large type , and explanations , observations , anecdotes , adventures , and ... importance of the subject , ) will be qualified to enter upon the perusal of more extended and elaborate works of ...
... important facts of each are stated in large type , and explanations , observations , anecdotes , adventures , and ... importance of the subject , ) will be qualified to enter upon the perusal of more extended and elaborate works of ...
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... important bearing on human happiness and virtue . This we consider as the most signal benefit derivable from the record of past ages . It gives us , in connexion with revelation , which furnishes a most interesting portion of the ...
... important bearing on human happiness and virtue . This we consider as the most signal benefit derivable from the record of past ages . It gives us , in connexion with revelation , which furnishes a most interesting portion of the ...
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... important events , throw some light on the proper subjects of history . Ruins indicate the existence of arts and wisdom in ancient times , which are still astonishing to the civilized world . They afford a knowledge of antiquity , which ...
... important events , throw some light on the proper subjects of history . Ruins indicate the existence of arts and wisdom in ancient times , which are still astonishing to the civilized world . They afford a knowledge of antiquity , which ...
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... important event in the history of the world during that time . Thus , also , during the last , or 10th period , literature greatly flourished among the Romans , under the auspices of Augustus . It is , therefore , designated as the ...
... important event in the history of the world during that time . Thus , also , during the last , or 10th period , literature greatly flourished among the Romans , under the auspices of Augustus . It is , therefore , designated as the ...
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... on his courage or virtue . Compared with his predecessors , he was certainly a respecta- ble emperor . In seeking to accomplish two important ob- jects , viz . , the punishment of the enormous 18 MODERN HISTORY . PERIOD I.
... on his courage or virtue . Compared with his predecessors , he was certainly a respecta- ble emperor . In seeking to accomplish two important ob- jects , viz . , the punishment of the enormous 18 MODERN HISTORY . PERIOD I.
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Էջ 201 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Էջ 232 - God and man have concurred to punish the wickedness of this time. And think not slightly of this advertisement ; but retire yourself into your country, where you may expect the event in safety. For though there be no appearance of any stir, yet, I say, they will receive a terrible blow — this parliament, and yet they shall not see who hurts them.
Էջ 87 - 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.
Էջ 342 - That the several acts and parts of acts of the congress of the United States, purporting to be laws for the imposing of duties and imposts on the importation of foreign commodities, and now having actual operation and effect within the United States, and more especially...
Էջ 25 - He was a mighty hunter before the Lord : wherefore it is said, "Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord." And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Էջ 266 - Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Էջ 203 - Christ was the word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what the word did make it, That I believe, and take it.
Էջ 342 - States, and more especially" two acts for the same purposes passed on the 29th of May 1828, and on the 14th of July 1832, "are unauthorized by the Constitution of the United States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof, and are null and void and no law...
Էջ 197 - Edward, insensible to pity, struck him on the face with his gauntlet; and the Dukes of Clarence and Gloucester, Lord Hastings, and Sir Thomas Gray, taking the blow as a signal for further violence, hurried the Prince into the next apartment and there despatched him with their daggers.
Էջ 35 - And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine : and he was the priest of the most high God.