Ancient history [by D.M. Masson]. |
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... origin of man upon the earth was a comparatively recent , though still remote event . The inferior animals preceded our race , and man did not appear till the surface had passed through various changes rendering it suitable for his ...
... origin of man upon the earth was a comparatively recent , though still remote event . The inferior animals preceded our race , and man did not appear till the surface had passed through various changes rendering it suitable for his ...
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... origin ) , and who were called Mizraim by their neighbours the Hebrews , were of a tawny or bronze complexion , sometimes approaching to black . They combined the characteristics both of the Semitic or Syro- Arabian , and the Japetic or ...
... origin ) , and who were called Mizraim by their neighbours the Hebrews , were of a tawny or bronze complexion , sometimes approaching to black . They combined the characteristics both of the Semitic or Syro- Arabian , and the Japetic or ...
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... origin of which was unknown . Under him the Egyptians reached their highest civilisation and the dynasty to which he belonged , and which closed in the person of his son Pheron or Menaphthah II . , was always regarded as the most ...
... origin of which was unknown . Under him the Egyptians reached their highest civilisation and the dynasty to which he belonged , and which closed in the person of his son Pheron or Menaphthah II . , was always regarded as the most ...
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... origin - inventions thousands of years old . To the fine dry climate of Egypt , which preserved these articles without decay in the recesses of tombs and pyramids , we are indebted for much that throws light on ancient civilisation . By ...
... origin - inventions thousands of years old . To the fine dry climate of Egypt , which preserved these articles without decay in the recesses of tombs and pyramids , we are indebted for much that throws light on ancient civilisation . By ...
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... origin , a native of Sais , named Amasis . Apries was deposed , and ultimately strangled , and Amasis became monarch of Egypt . At first , says Herodotus , he was held in contempt on account of his plebeian origin , probably , also ...
... origin , a native of Sais , named Amasis . Apries was deposed , and ultimately strangled , and Amasis became monarch of Egypt . At first , says Herodotus , he was held in contempt on account of his plebeian origin , probably , also ...
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Page 124 - 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...
Page 22 - Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: 10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
Page 114 - And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds; for he shall uncover the cedar work. 15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in!
Page 110 - I do well to be angry, even unto death. Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not labored, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night.
Page 114 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Page 59 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Page 99 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 109 - So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Page 91 - And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel : and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
Page 23 - But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.