Facts and Dates ; Or, the Leading Events in Sacred and Profane History and the Principal Facts in the Various Physical Sciences, the Memory Being Aided Throughout by a Simple and Natural Method |
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Page 79 - Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing : And I will bless them that bless thee : and curse him that curseth thee : and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
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Page 265 - Of all the Manuals on Geography that have come under our notice, we place the one whose title is given above in the first rank. For fulness of information, for knowledge of method in arrangement, for the manner in which the details are handled, we know of no work that can, in these respects, compete with Mr Mackay's Manual ELEMENTS. A. KEITH JOHNSTON, LL.D., FRSE, FRGS, HM Geographer for Scotland, Author of the ' Physical Atlas,
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| Title | Facts and Dates ; Or, the Leading Events in Sacred and Profane History and the Principal Facts in the Various Physical Sciences, the Memory Being Aided Throughout by a Simple and Natural Method |
| Author | Alexander Mackay |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | William Blackwood and Sons, 1879 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 27 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 336 pages |
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