The works of sir Walter Ralegh. To which are prefixed the lives of the author by [W.] Oldys and [T.] Birch, Volume 3 |
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... east of Jordan . Sect . I. Of the city of Damascus , and the divers fortunes thereof . 355 Sect . II . Of the first kings of Damascus , and of the growing up of their power . 358 Sect . III . Of the latter kings , and decay and ...
... east of Jordan . Sect . I. Of the city of Damascus , and the divers fortunes thereof . 355 Sect . II . Of the first kings of Damascus , and of the growing up of their power . 358 Sect . III . Of the latter kings , and decay and ...
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... east , to wit , thirty years to Chus , ere he begat Seba ; of which though the scriptures are silent , yet because those of the same time had that age when they begat their first sons , we may the more safely give the like allowance to ...
... east , to wit , thirty years to Chus , ere he begat Seba ; of which though the scriptures are silent , yet because those of the same time had that age when they begat their first sons , we may the more safely give the like allowance to ...
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... east ; because they were pestered with women , children , and cattle ; and , as some ancient writers have conceived , and Becanus of later times , they kept always the mountains ' sides , for fear of a se- cond flood . Now if we take ...
... east ; because they were pestered with women , children , and cattle ; and , as some ancient writers have conceived , and Becanus of later times , they kept always the mountains ' sides , for fear of a se- cond flood . Now if we take ...
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... east of Amraphel's country ; and the other two kings , which were companions with Amraphel , being seated to the west of Shinar , or Babylonia ; Amraphel , who held Babylonia itself , seemeth at this time to have had no great scope or ...
... east of Amraphel's country ; and the other two kings , which were companions with Amraphel , being seated to the west of Shinar , or Babylonia ; Amraphel , who held Babylonia itself , seemeth at this time to have had no great scope or ...
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... east . And that these nations gathered themselves together under Tidal , I take to be the probablest conjecture . SECT . XII . That Chedorlaomer , the chief of the four kings , was not of Assyria , but of Persia ; and that the Assyrian ...
... east . And that these nations gathered themselves together under Tidal , I take to be the probablest conjecture . SECT . XII . That Chedorlaomer , the chief of the four kings , was not of Assyria , but of Persia ; and that the Assyrian ...
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Page 126 - See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil ; in that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply : and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
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Page 121 - Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many ; but as of one. And to thy seed, which is Christ.