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Questions. Kings of Babylon ? Baladan , who overturned the ancient empire of Assyria ; Nebuchadnezzar , who made Babylon the seat of empire , and took Judah captive ; Belshazzar , his grandson , in whose reign Babylon was taken by Cyrus ...
Questions. Kings of Babylon ? Baladan , who overturned the ancient empire of Assyria ; Nebuchadnezzar , who made Babylon the seat of empire , and took Judah captive ; Belshazzar , his grandson , in whose reign Babylon was taken by Cyrus ...
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... Empires were founded about this time ? A. The Assyrian and Ægyptian Empires , and some of the most ancient of the Phenician and Grecian cities . Q. What is the date of the deliverance of the Israelites out of Egypt . A. 2500 years after ...
... Empires were founded about this time ? A. The Assyrian and Ægyptian Empires , and some of the most ancient of the Phenician and Grecian cities . Q. What is the date of the deliverance of the Israelites out of Egypt . A. 2500 years after ...
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... Empire about 800 years before Christ ? A. It was divided at the death of Sardanapālus . Q. How did the Greeks compute their time ? A. By the Olympiad . Q. What is that ? A. A space of four years : The Olympic games were held in the ...
... Empire about 800 years before Christ ? A. It was divided at the death of Sardanapālus . Q. How did the Greeks compute their time ? A. By the Olympiad . Q. What is that ? A. A space of four years : The Olympic games were held in the ...
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... Empire by Alex- ander the Great . Q. What is the brightest page of Roman History ? A. It opens at the date of 150 years before Christ , when the Punic War was ended by the destruc- tion of Carthage ; and the conquest of Greece completed ...
... Empire by Alex- ander the Great . Q. What is the brightest page of Roman History ? A. It opens at the date of 150 years before Christ , when the Punic War was ended by the destruc- tion of Carthage ; and the conquest of Greece completed ...
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... bursting of Mount Ve- suvius , A.D. 79 . Q. At what date would you say the Roman Empire was at its greatest extent ? A. Under the Emperor Trajan , A.D. 100 . Q. What remarkable event took place about the year 200 52 MODERN CHRONOLOGY. ...
... bursting of Mount Ve- suvius , A.D. 79 . Q. At what date would you say the Roman Empire was at its greatest extent ? A. Under the Emperor Trajan , A.D. 100 . Q. What remarkable event took place about the year 200 52 MODERN CHRONOLOGY. ...
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Page 48 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ; Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, — which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet...
Page 18 - Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother ; James, the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; 3 Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alpheus, and Lebbeus, whose surname was Thaddeus ; 4 Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
Page 45 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselve»dishonourable graves.
Page 46 - fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Page 6 - Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.
Page 37 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November : February hath twenty-eight alone, And all the rest have thirty-one ; But leap year coming once in four, February then has one day more.
Page 9 - DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the First Sunday after the Full Moon which happens upon, or next after the Twenty-first Day of March ; and if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.
Page 30 - Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces; the whole occupying a complete circle, or broad belt, in the heavens, called the Zodiac.
Page 29 - The Colossus of Rhodes; The Sepulchre of Mausolus; The Palace of Cyrus; The Pyramids of Egypt; The Statue of Jupiter, at Olympia; The Temple of Diana, at Ephesus; The Walls of Babylon. The Seven Birth-places of Homer: Septem urbes certant de stirpe insignis Homed, Smyrna, Chios, Colophon, Salamis, Rhodos, Argos, Athenae.
Page 74 - Non habet officii Lucifer omnis idem. Ille Nefastus erit, per quern tria verba silentur : Fastus erit, per quern lege licebit agi.