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... India , ex- tending his empire to the eastern ocean . From the conquest of India he had just returned , enriched with spoils of immense value , when ambassadors arrived at his court from the emperor of Constantinople , whose capital was ...
... India , ex- tending his empire to the eastern ocean . From the conquest of India he had just returned , enriched with spoils of immense value , when ambassadors arrived at his court from the emperor of Constantinople , whose capital was ...
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... India . " Long time in even scale the battle hung . " At length , however , the wings of the Turkish army began to give way , borne down by the almost infinite force of the Tartar cavalry and infantry , who fought with astonishing rage ...
... India . " Long time in even scale the battle hung . " At length , however , the wings of the Turkish army began to give way , borne down by the almost infinite force of the Tartar cavalry and infantry , who fought with astonishing rage ...
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... India , and govern a third part of the human spe- cies . The Tartars interfered no more with the Ottoman Turks , but left them gradually to recover from so great a blow . Nor were the christian princes able to avail themselves of this ...
... India , and govern a third part of the human spe- cies . The Tartars interfered no more with the Ottoman Turks , but left them gradually to recover from so great a blow . Nor were the christian princes able to avail themselves of this ...
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... India , and many of the most productive isl- ands in the ocean . Into her immense capital , rivers of incalculable wealth are daily pouring from every part of the world . Her India trade has opened by far the most extensive , lucrative ...
... India , and many of the most productive isl- ands in the ocean . Into her immense capital , rivers of incalculable wealth are daily pouring from every part of the world . Her India trade has opened by far the most extensive , lucrative ...
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... India forms the south part of Asia , as Russia does the north . North of it lies Tartary .... east and south the Pacific and Indian oceans , and west the empire of Persia . The wealth of India has , in every age , been even proverbial ...
... India forms the south part of Asia , as Russia does the north . North of it lies Tartary .... east and south the Pacific and Indian oceans , and west the empire of Persia . The wealth of India has , in every age , been even proverbial ...
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Page 71 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Page 95 - to whom a thousand years are but as one day, and one day as a thousand years...
Page 95 - Redeemer shall, in his own time and way, show who is the blessed and only potentate, the King of kings and the Lord of lords.