ANCIENT STATES AND EMPIRES FOR COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS1869 |
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Page 25 - Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee : and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing : and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee : and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Page 68 - The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife : and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
Page 60 - And Samuel said, hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken, than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
Page 185 - Look once more ere we leave this specular mount Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence...
Page 31 - Bless me, even me also, 0 my father. And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing. And he said, is not he rightly named Jacob ? for he hath supplanted me these two times ; he took away my birthright ; and, behold, how he hath taken away my blessing.
Page 14 - And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Page 29 - And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
Page 80 - Mesopotamia, on the east by the Tigris, on the south by the Persian Gulf, and on the west by the Arabian Desert.
Page 22 - God shall enlarge Japhet: and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; and Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 25 - Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt, take the left hand, I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.