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... ASSYRIANS , AND BABYLONIANS , 1. Introduction , 32 41 4I 2. Chaldæan ( or Early Babylonian ) Empire , 3. Assyrian Empire , - 4. Later Babylonian Empire , IV . THE HEBREWS , V. THE PHOENICIANS , 42 46 51 54 61 VI . THE MEDO - PERSIAN ...
... ASSYRIANS , AND BABYLONIANS , 1. Introduction , 32 41 4I 2. Chaldæan ( or Early Babylonian ) Empire , 3. Assyrian Empire , - 4. Later Babylonian Empire , IV . THE HEBREWS , V. THE PHOENICIANS , 42 46 51 54 61 VI . THE MEDO - PERSIAN ...
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... Assyrian Winged Human - headed Bull , 46 Remains of Ancient Temple at Corinth , 140 Sargon in his Chariot , - 48 The Castle and Port of Smyrna , - 141 Dagon of the Assyrians - bas - relief Apollo , 147 from Nimroud , 50 59 Greek Theatre ...
... Assyrian Winged Human - headed Bull , 46 Remains of Ancient Temple at Corinth , 140 Sargon in his Chariot , - 48 The Castle and Port of Smyrna , - 141 Dagon of the Assyrians - bas - relief Apollo , 147 from Nimroud , 50 59 Greek Theatre ...
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... Assyrian , the Babylonian , the Hebrew , the Phenician , the Hindoo , the Persian , the Greek , and the Roman . This ... Assyrians , Arabs , and Babylonians . Hamites . 22. The Hamitic branch is represented in history by one great ...
... Assyrian , the Babylonian , the Hebrew , the Phenician , the Hindoo , the Persian , the Greek , and the Roman . This ... Assyrians , Arabs , and Babylonians . Hamites . 22. The Hamitic branch is represented in history by one great ...
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... Assyrians , and Babylonians . 3. The Hebrews . 4. The Phoni- cians . 5. The Persians . - II . The History of Greece . - III . The History of Rome.-IV. The History of the Middle Ages.- V. The History of Modern Europe . 29. All history is ...
... Assyrians , and Babylonians . 3. The Hebrews . 4. The Phoni- cians . 5. The Persians . - II . The History of Greece . - III . The History of Rome.-IV. The History of the Middle Ages.- V. The History of Modern Europe . 29. All history is ...
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... ASSYRIANS . ARABS . CHALDÆANS and BABYLONIANS . EGYPTIANS . III . Order of Aryan migration into Europe : - Celts , Latins , Greeks , Germans ( Teutons ) , Slavonians , Lithua- nians . IV . Divisions of History : - ( a ) China . ( b ) ...
... ASSYRIANS . ARABS . CHALDÆANS and BABYLONIANS . EGYPTIANS . III . Order of Aryan migration into Europe : - Celts , Latins , Greeks , Germans ( Teutons ) , Slavonians , Lithua- nians . IV . Divisions of History : - ( a ) China . ( b ) ...
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Page 41 - 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...
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Page 250 - Paul saith. This is a true saying, and worthy of all men to be received, That Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
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Page 331 - But as a school of moral discipline the feudal institutions were perhaps most to be valued. Society had sunk, for several centuries after the dissolution of the Roman empire, into a condition of utter depravity, where, if any vices could be selected as more eminently characteristic than others, they were falsehood, treachery, and ingratitude. In slowly purging off the lees of this extreme corruption, the feudal spirit exerted its ameliorating influence. Violation of faith stood first in the catalogue...
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Page 442 - Fourteenth himself, the world seems at last to have formed a correct judgment. He was not a great general; he was not a great statesman; but he was in one sense of the words, a great king. Never was there so consummate a master of what our James the First would have called kingcraft—of all those arts which most advantageously display the merits of a prince, and most completely hide his defects.