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... Four Volumes complete in One , with Engravings , price 9s . 6d . , boards . GIBBON'S DECLINE & FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE , Now publishing , in 56 Numbers , price 6d . each , to form Four Octavo Volumes . ROBERTSON'S WORKS , Comprising ...
... Four Volumes complete in One , with Engravings , price 9s . 6d . , boards . GIBBON'S DECLINE & FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE , Now publishing , in 56 Numbers , price 6d . each , to form Four Octavo Volumes . ROBERTSON'S WORKS , Comprising ...
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... four hundred and forty - four years before the Christian era . The name of his father was Lyxes , of his mother Dryo : and we are told also , that his family was illustrious . At this time Lygdamis was prince of Halicarnassus , and , as ...
... four hundred and forty - four years before the Christian era . The name of his father was Lyxes , of his mother Dryo : and we are told also , that his family was illustrious . At this time Lygdamis was prince of Halicarnassus , and , as ...
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... four cubits wide , and eight deep : it was descended by a ladder ; and he who went down , carried with him cakes made of honey ; when he was got down , he was made acquainted with futurity . For more particulars concerning this oracle ...
... four cubits wide , and eight deep : it was descended by a ladder ; and he who went down , carried with him cakes made of honey ; when he was got down , he was made acquainted with futurity . For more particulars concerning this oracle ...
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... four were of the purest gold , weighing each one talent and a half ; the rest were of inferior quality , but of the weight of two talents . He constructed also a lion of pure gold , which weighed ten talents . It was originally placed ...
... four were of the purest gold , weighing each one talent and a half ; the rest were of inferior quality , but of the weight of two talents . He constructed also a lion of pure gold , which weighed ten talents . It was originally placed ...
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... four cubits wide , and eight deep : it was descended by a ladder ; and he who went down , carried with him cakes made of honey ; when he was got down , he was made acquainted with futurity . For more particulars concerning this oracle ...
... four cubits wide , and eight deep : it was descended by a ladder ; and he who went down , carried with him cakes made of honey ; when he was got down , he was made acquainted with futurity . For more particulars concerning this oracle ...
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Page 71 - And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; and the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
Page 242 - And the people gave a shout, saying, "It is the voice of a god and not of a man." And immediately the Angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
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Page 142 - We will willingly give them." And they spread a garment and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey.
Page 244 - Alas! regardless of their doom The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day: Yet see how all around 'em wait The ministers of human fate And black Misfortune's baleful train!
Page 82 - And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves : because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews ; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
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Page 82 - And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat : and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness : And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land...