Essays on Various Subjects, Philological, Philosophical, Ethnological, and Archaeological, Connected with the Prehistorical Records of the Civilized Nations of Ancient Europe, Especially of that Race which First Occupied Great Britain |
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... and extensively honoured . Should any one language be rationally deemed more worthy than another , it was assuredly that language which the Holy Ghost selected for the more perfect revelation in Christ , when the viii PREFACE .
... and extensively honoured . Should any one language be rationally deemed more worthy than another , it was assuredly that language which the Holy Ghost selected for the more perfect revelation in Christ , when the viii PREFACE .
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... honours for the Germanic branch , are sure to be backed by all the prejudices of our dominant people , who choose to regard themselves as being all de- scendants from the Anglo - Saxons , who , in the fifth and sixth centuries after ...
... honours for the Germanic branch , are sure to be backed by all the prejudices of our dominant people , who choose to regard themselves as being all de- scendants from the Anglo - Saxons , who , in the fifth and sixth centuries after ...
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... honour , to their mother towns . " He then mentions Carthage , but only to close the subject . In another place Sallust writes that Leptis was founded by the Sidonians , who , banished during civil disturbances , had reached in their ...
... honour , to their mother towns . " He then mentions Carthage , but only to close the subject . In another place Sallust writes that Leptis was founded by the Sidonians , who , banished during civil disturbances , had reached in their ...
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... honour of the god , their foster child , that is , of course , the Tyrian or Sidonian Hercules , their national deity , whom , however , Avienus scruples not to confound with the Theban - born son of Amphitryon , the Grecian hero . But ...
... honour of the god , their foster child , that is , of course , the Tyrian or Sidonian Hercules , their national deity , whom , however , Avienus scruples not to confound with the Theban - born son of Amphitryon , the Grecian hero . But ...
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... honoured by them above all other gods ; that among them there are some men , priests as if it were of Apollo , and that , consequently , he is daily and continuously hynined by them with lyric songs , and exceedingly honoured ; that ...
... honoured by them above all other gods ; that among them there are some men , priests as if it were of Apollo , and that , consequently , he is daily and continuously hynined by them with lyric songs , and exceedingly honoured ; that ...
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Page 223 - Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock taste anything ; let them not feed, nor drink water. But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God; yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
Page 225 - For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And prepare thyself to the search of their fathers : For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow : Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, And utter words out of their heart?
Page 8 - God, into an image made like unto corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Page 5 - We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears ! how many pages of doubtful record might we not often spare, for a few stones left one upon another!
Page 222 - So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Page 224 - Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.
Page 224 - Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not. The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the...
Page 223 - And cry mightily unto God ; Yea, let them turn Every one from his evil way, And from the violence That is in their hands. "Who can tell if God will turn and repent, And turn away from his fierce anger, That we perish not ? And God saw their works, That they turned from their evil way ; And God repented of the evil That he had said he would do unto them ; And he did it not.
Page 319 - So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon them.
Page 319 - And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard those things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron...