A View of Universal History, from the Creation to the Present Time: Including an Account of the Celebrated Revolutions in France, Poland, Sweden, Geneva &c. &c. Together with an Accurate and Impartial Narrative of the Late Military Operations; and Other Important Events, Volym 1G. Kearsley, 1795 |
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... remained fubject , and tributary to the Median monarchs . Belefis received the government as the reward of his fervices ; and Phul was entrufted with that of Affyria . The Affyrian governor gra- dually enlarged the boundaries of his ...
... remained fubject , and tributary to the Median monarchs . Belefis received the government as the reward of his fervices ; and Phul was entrufted with that of Affyria . The Affyrian governor gra- dually enlarged the boundaries of his ...
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... remained for fome years at the mercy of the Philiftines , till Samuel rofe , their prophet and their judge , who brought back the people to a sense of their duty , and foon reftored the departed glory of Ifrael . Their enemies were ...
... remained for fome years at the mercy of the Philiftines , till Samuel rofe , their prophet and their judge , who brought back the people to a sense of their duty , and foon reftored the departed glory of Ifrael . Their enemies were ...
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... remained above a hundred years longer , only to be the fcene of repeated butcheries , and of ftill more dreadful defolation . It is not eafy to fay from which it fuffered moft , its own princes or foreign ene- mies . Manaffeh filled it ...
... remained above a hundred years longer , only to be the fcene of repeated butcheries , and of ftill more dreadful defolation . It is not eafy to fay from which it fuffered moft , its own princes or foreign ene- mies . Manaffeh filled it ...
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... God . Neither promifes nor threats could make them abandon his worship , or bow the knee to Jeremiah , ch . xxii . idols . idols . Three fcorce and ten years they remained in 40 Of Syria , Palestine , and the Jewish Nation .
... God . Neither promifes nor threats could make them abandon his worship , or bow the knee to Jeremiah , ch . xxii . idols . idols . Three fcorce and ten years they remained in 40 Of Syria , Palestine , and the Jewish Nation .
Sida 41
... remained in captivity . At length the great Cyrus , having conquered Babylon , fer them at liberty , and iflued a decree , by which they were per- mitted to return to their own country , and to rebuild their city and temple . He alfo ...
... remained in captivity . At length the great Cyrus , having conquered Babylon , fer them at liberty , and iflued a decree , by which they were per- mitted to return to their own country , and to rebuild their city and temple . He alfo ...
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Sida 244 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Sida 411 - No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed, or outlawed, or banished, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
Sida 374 - III. The nation is essentially the source of all sovereignty; nor can any individual, or any body of men, be entitled to any authority which is not expressly derived from it.
Sida 195 - Caesar now commanded the cohorts to pursue their success, and advancing, charged Pompey's troops upon the flank ; this charge the enemy withstood for some time with great bravery, till he brought up his third line, which had not yet engaged. Pompey's infantry being thus doubly attacked, in front by fresh troops and in rear by the victorious cohorts, could no longer resist, but fled to their camp. The...
Sida 432 - It is you," continued he to the members, " that have forced me upon this. I have sought the Lord night and day, that he would rather slay me than put me upon this work.
Sida 283 - Very faint vestiges of the Roman policy, jurisprudence, arts, or literature remained. New forms of government, new laws, new manners, new dresses, new languages, and new names of men and countries, were every where introduced.
Sida 432 - For shame," said he to the parliament, "get you gone; give place to honester men; to those who will more faithfully discharge their trust. You are no longer a parliament : I tell you, you are no longer a parliament. The Lord has done with you : he has chosen other instruments for carrying on his work.
Sida 346 - sat on every face ; silence, as in the dead of night, reigned through all the chambers of the royal apartment ; the ladies and courtiers were ranged on each side...
Sida 196 - Achilles, the commander of the forces, and Septimius, by birth a Roman, and who had formerly been a centurion in Pompey's army, were appointed to carry -their opinion into execution.
Sida 194 - Caesar's soldiers were now rushing on with their usual impetuosity, when, perceiving the enemy motionless, they all stopped short, as if by general consent, and halted in the midst of their career. A terrible pause ensued, in which both armies continued to gaze upon each other with mutual terror and dreadful serenity.