A History of All Nations, from the Earlier Periods to the Present Time: Or, Universal History : in which the History of Every Nation, Ancient and Modern, is Separately Given, Volume 1 |
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... Arabia after the Establishment of the Khalifate - Preaching of Abd ul Wahab - Success of his Doctrine Capture of ... Arabia . Geographical Description , Early Traditions of Arabia - Lokman - Di- Tribes - Ishmael and Hagar ...
... Arabia after the Establishment of the Khalifate - Preaching of Abd ul Wahab - Success of his Doctrine Capture of ... Arabia . Geographical Description , Early Traditions of Arabia - Lokman - Di- Tribes - Ishmael and Hagar ...
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... Arabia , Sofola , on the eastern coast of Africa , or some part of Hindos- tan , or Further India . On this point , geographers are not agreed . Under the name of " The Isles , " the Hebrew wri ters are supposed to have designated the ...
... Arabia , Sofola , on the eastern coast of Africa , or some part of Hindos- tan , or Further India . On this point , geographers are not agreed . Under the name of " The Isles , " the Hebrew wri ters are supposed to have designated the ...
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... ARABIA Red GUINEA ETHIΟΡΙΑ StHelena 30 10 20 30 40 CONGO ATIANT 40 50 109 TARTARY CARUL / Arabiu Sea 20 60 70 Equator 60 INDIA Tropic umatra DIAN Java Madagascar Tropic of Capricorn OCEANO elen's Land Van Diemens 011100 SOUTHERN OCEAN ...
... ARABIA Red GUINEA ETHIΟΡΙΑ StHelena 30 10 20 30 40 CONGO ATIANT 40 50 109 TARTARY CARUL / Arabiu Sea 20 60 70 Equator 60 INDIA Tropic umatra DIAN Java Madagascar Tropic of Capricorn OCEANO elen's Land Van Diemens 011100 SOUTHERN OCEAN ...
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... Arabia PASTRIA R.Mile Thebes Berchice Babylon Jerusale Babyl Napata Arabia Petrea Meroe ETHIOPIA Jambia Susa Aria BACTRIAN Bactr S Taxila INIR Mall Persepolis CARMANIA Omanu ABIA AR Macoraba Serta Sacalite Mariaba Arabia Felix Auxume ...
... Arabia PASTRIA R.Mile Thebes Berchice Babylon Jerusale Babyl Napata Arabia Petrea Meroe ETHIOPIA Jambia Susa Aria BACTRIAN Bactr S Taxila INIR Mall Persepolis CARMANIA Omanu ABIA AR Macoraba Serta Sacalite Mariaba Arabia Felix Auxume ...
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... Arabia . The Cypress Tree . The animal kingdom is no less varied . Here are not only the beasts and birds common to Europe , but the elephant , rhinoceros , tiger , yak , nyl - ghau , gazelle , and ostrich , are natives of Asia . Here ...
... Arabia . The Cypress Tree . The animal kingdom is no less varied . Here are not only the beasts and birds common to Europe , but the elephant , rhinoceros , tiger , yak , nyl - ghau , gazelle , and ostrich , are natives of Asia . Here ...
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Page 146 - So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
Page 75 - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!
Page 155 - And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the Lord shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan...
Page 146 - And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
Page 169 - Their children's cries unheard that passed through fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite Worshiped in Rabba and her watery plain, In Argob and in Basan, to the stream Of utmost Arnon. Nor content with such Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest heart Of Solomon he led by fraud to build His temple right against the temple of God On that opprobrious hill, and made his grove The pleasant valley of Hinnom, Tophet thence And black Gehenna called, the type of Hell.
Page 156 - And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
Page 167 - THE beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon : lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Page 34 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 67 - Gul in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute ; Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
Page 168 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!