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... Persia , and returned , after a period of eight years , to Samarchand , through the middle countries of Asia . He is represented as a prince of great moderation , self - command , and of a mild and amiable temper . He was adored and ...
... Persia , and returned , after a period of eight years , to Samarchand , through the middle countries of Asia . He is represented as a prince of great moderation , self - command , and of a mild and amiable temper . He was adored and ...
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... Persia , Greece , Carthage , Rome , Constantinople , Turkey , Germany , and France . CONCLUSION . Thus have we pointed out to the student the gene . ral outlines , or the mere skeleton of what he will find in reading the history of ...
... Persia , Greece , Carthage , Rome , Constantinople , Turkey , Germany , and France . CONCLUSION . Thus have we pointed out to the student the gene . ral outlines , or the mere skeleton of what he will find in reading the history of ...
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... Persians . The conquest of Per- sia corrupted the Greeks .... as did that of Carthage , the Romans . Should the French , under Bonaparte , conquer all Europe , France , which now forms a com- plete empire , would then be only a part of ...
... Persians . The conquest of Per- sia corrupted the Greeks .... as did that of Carthage , the Romans . Should the French , under Bonaparte , conquer all Europe , France , which now forms a com- plete empire , would then be only a part of ...
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... northern , the Chinese the eastern , the Indians the south - eastern , the Persians the southern , the Arabians --- Italy is conquered and provinciated . Germany , in 96 AN HISTORICAL COMPEND . The present ́state of Asia,
... northern , the Chinese the eastern , the Indians the south - eastern , the Persians the southern , the Arabians --- Italy is conquered and provinciated . Germany , in 96 AN HISTORICAL COMPEND . The present ́state of Asia,
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... Persians , over both of whom they have gained great advantages . It has been thought they would expel the Turks out of Europe , and put a period to the Ottoman empire . Count Romanzow , in the reign of the great Catharine , defeated ...
... Persians , over both of whom they have gained great advantages . It has been thought they would expel the Turks out of Europe , and put a period to the Ottoman empire . Count Romanzow , in the reign of the great Catharine , defeated ...
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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.
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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.