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... Egyptians ❤ 437 444 447 4. The old and new Assyrians , the Medes , and Cyrus 475 5. The Persians , Grecians , and Alexander 48.3 6. The Roman Empire 504 7. The Progress of the Revolutions in Rome explained 541 AN UNIVERSAL HISTORY ...
... Egyptians ❤ 437 444 447 4. The old and new Assyrians , the Medes , and Cyrus 475 5. The Persians , Grecians , and Alexander 48.3 6. The Roman Empire 504 7. The Progress of the Revolutions in Rome explained 541 AN UNIVERSAL HISTORY ...
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... Egyptians and Phoenicians ; and the memo- ry of Shem has always been perpetuated with the Hebrew people , who are descended from him . A little after this first division of mankind , Nimrod , a ferocious man , through the vio- lence of ...
... Egyptians and Phoenicians ; and the memo- ry of Shem has always been perpetuated with the Hebrew people , who are descended from him . A little after this first division of mankind , Nimrod , a ferocious man , through the vio- lence of ...
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... Egyptians , that of their pyramids , which yet subsist , and that of the astronomical observations , both of this people and of the Chaldeans . We may 1771 also trace up to this time , and no higher , the observations which the ...
... Egyptians , that of their pyramids , which yet subsist , and that of the astronomical observations , both of this people and of the Chaldeans . We may 1771 also trace up to this time , and no higher , the observations which the ...
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... Egyptians ; the Hebrews are unjustly hated , and unmercifully persecuted : God raises up Moses their deliverer , whom he saves from the waters of the Nile , and makes him fall into the hands of Pharaoh's daughter : she brings him up as ...
... Egyptians ; the Hebrews are unjustly hated , and unmercifully persecuted : God raises up Moses their deliverer , whom he saves from the waters of the Nile , and makes him fall into the hands of Pharaoh's daughter : she brings him up as ...
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... Egyptians . In those days the people of Egypt settled in divers parts of Greece . The colony which Cecrops brought from Egypt built twelve cities , or rather twelve towns , of which he composed the kingdom of Athens , where he ...
... Egyptians . In those days the people of Egypt settled in divers parts of Greece . The colony which Cecrops brought from Egypt built twelve cities , or rather twelve towns , of which he composed the kingdom of Athens , where he ...
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Page 306 - Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
Page 309 - O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God ! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out ! For who hath known the mind of the Lord ? or who hath been his counsellor...
Page 309 - For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief; even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
Page 306 - Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in His goodness; otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
Page 327 - Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes ; and some of them ye shall kill and crucify ; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel- unto the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
Page 329 - Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
Page 305 - For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
Page 376 - For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and God hath 'chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Page 214 - Judah, the house of my father ; and among the sons of my lather he liked me, to make me king over all Israel : and of all my sons (for the Lord hath given me many sons) he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.
Page 245 - BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me : and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple; even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in; behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.