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... Empire , including the History of Macedonia and Syria , under Alexander the Great and his Successors . By WILLIAM ROE LYALL , D.D. , Dean of Canterbury ; the Rev. J. H. B. MOUNTAIN , D.D .; the Rev. G. C. RENOUARD , B.D. , Fellow of ...
... Empire , including the History of Macedonia and Syria , under Alexander the Great and his Successors . By WILLIAM ROE LYALL , D.D. , Dean of Canterbury ; the Rev. J. H. B. MOUNTAIN , D.D .; the Rev. G. C. RENOUARD , B.D. , Fellow of ...
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... Empire Second Assyrian Empire PAGE 151 · € 151 • 153 · 154 • 154 • 155 · 156 • 163 · 171 183 195 ASSYRIA . . 207 211 212 213 234 256 CHAPTER III . - NINEVEH CHAPTER IV . - BABYLON PERSIA . CHAPTER I. - GEOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF PERSIA AND ...
... Empire Second Assyrian Empire PAGE 151 · € 151 • 153 · 154 • 154 • 155 · 156 • 163 · 171 183 195 ASSYRIA . . 207 211 212 213 234 256 CHAPTER III . - NINEVEH CHAPTER IV . - BABYLON PERSIA . CHAPTER I. - GEOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF PERSIA AND ...
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... empire in this direction : " claustra olim Romani imperii ; " " forming the limits of the Roman power . " The cataracts , which are situated above Elephantine , must have formed an invincible barrier against Grecian or Roman enterprise ...
... empire in this direction : " claustra olim Romani imperii ; " " forming the limits of the Roman power . " The cataracts , which are situated above Elephantine , must have formed an invincible barrier against Grecian or Roman enterprise ...
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... empire . The Nile may in other times have diffused more plenty in Egypt , but never more glory upon us . May heaven , content with this proof of the people's patience , and the prince's generosity , restore for ever back to Egypt its ...
... empire . The Nile may in other times have diffused more plenty in Egypt , but never more glory upon us . May heaven , content with this proof of the people's patience , and the prince's generosity , restore for ever back to Egypt its ...
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... empire , reaching to the thirteenth dynasty , and sixty - five kings for the middle empire , or down to the eighteenth dynasty . The Tablet of Abydos was found by Mr. Bankes in 1818 , and though it is now greatly disfigured , yet we ...
... empire , reaching to the thirteenth dynasty , and sixty - five kings for the middle empire , or down to the eighteenth dynasty . The Tablet of Abydos was found by Mr. Bankes in 1818 , and though it is now greatly disfigured , yet we ...
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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.