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... kingdoms . Original Seat of Man . It is , perhaps , a useless enquiry to search after the region in which man was first placed , the paradise of his first days of innocence and happiness . The only historic clew we possess are the names ...
... kingdoms . Original Seat of Man . It is , perhaps , a useless enquiry to search after the region in which man was first placed , the paradise of his first days of innocence and happiness . The only historic clew we possess are the names ...
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... kingdom from him , and Samuel anointed the youthful David to occupy his place . Saul was seized with a me- lancholy derangement of intellect . David , who was his son - in - law , won the affections of the powerful tribe of Judah ; but ...
... kingdom from him , and Samuel anointed the youthful David to occupy his place . Saul was seized with a me- lancholy derangement of intellect . David , who was his son - in - law , won the affections of the powerful tribe of Judah ; but ...
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... kingdom of Israel was hereditary ; but the monarch might choose his successor among his sons . Solomon , supported by Nathan , the great prophet of those days , and by the affection of his father , was nomi- nated to succeed . The ...
... kingdom of Israel was hereditary ; but the monarch might choose his successor among his sons . Solomon , supported by Nathan , the great prophet of those days , and by the affection of his father , was nomi- nated to succeed . The ...
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... kingdom of Judah the house of David declined , and the king of Babylon , Nebuchadnezzar , carried away the people to 585 . Babylonia . On the fall of that state , seventy years after- wards , Cyrus king of Persia allowed to return to ...
... kingdom of Judah the house of David declined , and the king of Babylon , Nebuchadnezzar , carried away the people to 585 . Babylonia . On the fall of that state , seventy years after- wards , Cyrus king of Persia allowed to return to ...
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... wars of Thebes , and that of Troy , eternised by the verses of Homer . As a real historic event , the chief that this period offers is , the erection of a kingdom by Minos in Crete , three 30 PART I. OUTLINES OF HISTORY .
... wars of Thebes , and that of Troy , eternised by the verses of Homer . As a real historic event , the chief that this period offers is , the erection of a kingdom by Minos in Crete , three 30 PART I. OUTLINES OF HISTORY .
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