The World's Need?: One Hundred Other Momentous Questions in HistoryForget-me-not publishing Company, 1920 - 192 pages |
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... land ; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies , what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years , in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes . GEORGE ELIOT in ...
... land ; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies , what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years , in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes . GEORGE ELIOT in ...
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... land of Shinar . SECULAR EVIDENCE . The Tigris and Euphrates Valley ; the Upper and the Lower Country ..... The southern part of the valley , the part known as Babylonia or Chaldea , is , like the Delta region of Egypt , an alluvial ...
... land of Shinar . SECULAR EVIDENCE . The Tigris and Euphrates Valley ; the Upper and the Lower Country ..... The southern part of the valley , the part known as Babylonia or Chaldea , is , like the Delta region of Egypt , an alluvial ...
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... land of Canaan ; and they came unto Haran , and dwelt there . SECULAR EVIDENCE . The home of the nativity of Abraham was long a lost city . The excavations of Mr. Taylor , in 1854 , and the discovery by Major Rawlin- son of important ...
... land of Canaan ; and they came unto Haran , and dwelt there . SECULAR EVIDENCE . The home of the nativity of Abraham was long a lost city . The excavations of Mr. Taylor , in 1854 , and the discovery by Major Rawlin- son of important ...
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... lands to dig up the Bible cities , and as they are uncovered , their very stones cry out the story of the long - forgotten past ..... In the year 1872 , after the tablets from the Nineveh library had been taken to the British Museum ...
... lands to dig up the Bible cities , and as they are uncovered , their very stones cry out the story of the long - forgotten past ..... In the year 1872 , after the tablets from the Nineveh library had been taken to the British Museum ...
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... land to cross the desert . EDGAR J. BANKS , Ph.D. , Field Director of the recent Babylonian Expedition of the University of Chicago , The Bible and the Spade , pp . 9 , 26 , 27 , 32 , 33. Copyright , 1913. The International Committee of ...
... land to cross the desert . EDGAR J. BANKS , Ph.D. , Field Director of the recent Babylonian Expedition of the University of Chicago , The Bible and the Spade , pp . 9 , 26 , 27 , 32 , 33. Copyright , 1913. The International Committee of ...
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Page 80 - After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful, and terrible, and strong exceedingly, and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it; and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.
Page 56 - And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing : and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth : and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou ? At the same time my reason returned unto me ; and for the glory of my kingdom.
Page 64 - And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
Page 42 - And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword : and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
Page 119 - And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; 26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Page 124 - Their orators thou then extoll'st, as those The top of eloquence; statists indeed, And lovers of their country, as may seem ; But herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid rules of civil government, In their majestic unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so, What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat; These only with our law best form a king.
Page 64 - I will go before thee, And make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, And cut in sunder the bars of iron...
Page 28 - And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years...
Page 5 - And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
Page 141 - In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, the chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs...