An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time, Nide 20T. Osborne, 1748 |
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Sivu viii
... Jews , from Abra- ham , founder of the Jewish nation , to the Babylonifh captivity . We have enlarged fomewhat on the latter , giving a diftinct account of their patriarchs from Abra- bam to Mofes ; of their Egyptian bondage ...
... Jews , from Abra- ham , founder of the Jewish nation , to the Babylonifh captivity . We have enlarged fomewhat on the latter , giving a diftinct account of their patriarchs from Abra- bam to Mofes ; of their Egyptian bondage ...
Sivu xx
... Jewish antiquities , which he dedicated to Epaphroditus his great patron . In these books he gives us the hiftory of the Jews from their first origin to the 12th year of Nero , when they began to shake off the Roman yoke . This work ...
... Jewish antiquities , which he dedicated to Epaphroditus his great patron . In these books he gives us the hiftory of the Jews from their first origin to the 12th year of Nero , when they began to shake off the Roman yoke . This work ...
Sivu xxi
... Jews . In this work he fhews himself converfant not only in the hiftory of his own , but of all other na- tions , and to have perused , as St. Jerom expreffes it * , all the libraries of the Greeks . This book likewife Jo- fephus ...
... Jews . In this work he fhews himself converfant not only in the hiftory of his own , but of all other na- tions , and to have perused , as St. Jerom expreffes it * , all the libraries of the Greeks . This book likewife Jo- fephus ...
Sivu xxvi
... Jews , wherein were inferted Solomon's letters to the Egyptian and Phænician kings , with their refpective anfwers . Eufebius alfo recites a fragment of the fame author , relating to the Jews " . ORPHEUS , furnamed the Librethian , was ...
... Jews , wherein were inferted Solomon's letters to the Egyptian and Phænician kings , with their refpective anfwers . Eufebius alfo recites a fragment of the fame author , relating to the Jews " . ORPHEUS , furnamed the Librethian , was ...
Sivu 215
... Jews , as we learn from the author of the 163 . first book of the Maccabees . They permitted Judas Macca- beus and his brother Jonathan to pafs through part of their territories , and gave them intelligence of the diftrefs their friends ...
... Jews , as we learn from the author of the 163 . first book of the Maccabees . They permitted Judas Macca- beus and his brother Jonathan to pafs through part of their territories , and gave them intelligence of the diftrefs their friends ...
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Sivu 194 - And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
Sivu 182 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
Sivu 113 - 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...
Sivu 131 - Chinese communicated their ideas by drawing on paper the natural images of the things they wished to express.
Sivu 194 - Lord faid unto her: return unto thy miftrefs, and fubmit thyfelf under her hands. 10. And the Angel of the Lord faid unto her: I will multiply thy feed exceedingly, that it fhall not be numbered for multitude.
Sivu 124 - Of this we find traces in thofe ancient and valuable books, which the Chinefe call, by way of eminence, The Five Volumes, being the canonical or claffical books of the higheft rank, which they look upon as the fource of all their fcience and morality. . The chief object of their worfhip then, at firft was the Supreme Being, the Lord and Sovereign Principle of all things, whom they adored under the name either Shang-ti, that is Supreme Emperor, or Tyen, which, with the Chinefe, fignifies the fame...
Sivu iii - By these records it is that we live, as it were, in the very time when the world was created ; we behold how it was governed in its...
Sivu 140 - He created six ko-lau or Prime Ministers§ to assist him in governing his empire. He appointed a professor of music, whose duty was to explain the order and arrangement of the different tones. He taught the way of making flutes, fifes, and organs, trumpets that imitated the voice of the dragon, and drums that made the noise of thunder. He divided his country into principalities, in each of which he caused cities to be erected. He introduced the use of wheeled carriages, and the training of horses...
Sivu xxiv - But curing Artaxerxes of a wound he received in the battle, he became a great favourite at the court of Persia, where he continued practising physic for 17 years, and was employed in several negotiations. He wrote the History of Persia...