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... APPEAR DURING 1851- A MANUAL OF ROMAN ANTIQUITIES . By Professor RAMSAY . A TREATISE on ELECTRO - METALLURGY . By JAMES NAPIER , F.C.S. A TREATISE on PHOTOGRAPHY . BY ROBERT HUNT , Esq . A MANUAL of BOTANY . By Professor BALFOUR , M.D. ...
... APPEAR DURING 1851- A MANUAL OF ROMAN ANTIQUITIES . By Professor RAMSAY . A TREATISE on ELECTRO - METALLURGY . By JAMES NAPIER , F.C.S. A TREATISE on PHOTOGRAPHY . BY ROBERT HUNT , Esq . A MANUAL of BOTANY . By Professor BALFOUR , M.D. ...
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... appears from the following table of the descendants of Cush , and is verified also by Herodotus , who speaks of Ethiopians from Asia and from Libya- vii . 70. Their descendants were , 1. Nimrod , the first king of Shinar , i.e. ...
... appears from the following table of the descendants of Cush , and is verified also by Herodotus , who speaks of Ethiopians from Asia and from Libya- vii . 70. Their descendants were , 1. Nimrod , the first king of Shinar , i.e. ...
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... appear to have been known to the ancients higher up than the city of Elephantine . This was the frontier town ... appears to force its way through the mountains of Nubia , to the neighbourhood of Damietta , in 31 ° 35 ′ N. , where ...
... appear to have been known to the ancients higher up than the city of Elephantine . This was the frontier town ... appears to force its way through the mountains of Nubia , to the neighbourhood of Damietta , in 31 ° 35 ′ N. , where ...
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... appears stationary for about a fortnight , but by the 10th of November has sunk to half its altitude . From that period it subsides very slowly till the middle of the following May ; and its water becomes extremely pure , clear , and ...
... appears stationary for about a fortnight , but by the 10th of November has sunk to half its altitude . From that period it subsides very slowly till the middle of the following May ; and its water becomes extremely pure , clear , and ...
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... appears how erroneous the calculations founded on such data must have been ; and yet they were the only ones which , before that time , could be obtained . We learn from Herodotus , ' that unless the river rose 15 or 16 cubits , it did ...
... appears how erroneous the calculations founded on such data must have been ; and yet they were the only ones which , before that time , could be obtained . We learn from Herodotus , ' that unless the river rose 15 or 16 cubits , it did ...
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Page 82 - Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we : 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 249 - As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man and the face of a lion, on the right side : and they four had the face of an ox on the left side ; they four also had the face of an eagle.
Page 345 - Now IN the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia...
Page 263 - And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation...
Page 425 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 271 - One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end...
Page 83 - And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Page 261 - For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination : he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
Page 164 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs : but the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...
Page 81 - Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers : that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen ; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.