The Family Magazine, Or, General Abstract of Useful Knowledge, Volume 2Redfield & Lindsay, 1843 |
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... reign . The cut above , with the following description , is from the Monthly Repository . The " Babylon is described by Herodotus as enci within its walls , a space of fifteen square miles . walls he states were eighty - seven feet ...
... reign . The cut above , with the following description , is from the Monthly Repository . The " Babylon is described by Herodotus as enci within its walls , a space of fifteen square miles . walls he states were eighty - seven feet ...
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... reign of May ; The tresses of the woods With the light dallying of the west - wind play ; And the full - brimming floods , As gladly to their goal they run , Hail the returning sun . Sir Thomas Urquhart tells us that John Napier , the ...
... reign of May ; The tresses of the woods With the light dallying of the west - wind play ; And the full - brimming floods , As gladly to their goal they run , Hail the returning sun . Sir Thomas Urquhart tells us that John Napier , the ...
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... reign A. M. 1758 , but we are inclined to think it was not so early ; for this is fifty years ear- lier than there is good reason for believing that the building of Babel began . Allowing , therefore , that his empire commenced with the ...
... reign A. M. 1758 , but we are inclined to think it was not so early ; for this is fifty years ear- lier than there is good reason for believing that the building of Babel began . Allowing , therefore , that his empire commenced with the ...
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... reign of 42 years ; shortly after which she died . * Ninyas her successor was very unlike his parents . He indulged in no ambitious schemes of conquest , but devoted his attention to the welfare of his people , and to the proper ...
... reign of 42 years ; shortly after which she died . * Ninyas her successor was very unlike his parents . He indulged in no ambitious schemes of conquest , but devoted his attention to the welfare of his people , and to the proper ...
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... , although F. Fontana , a Neapolitan , claimed , in 1646 , the honour of the invention to himself , and dated it from the year 1618 . " And Salatis died after a reign of nineteen years 40 THE FAMILY MAGAZINE . To the Publick 1.
... , although F. Fontana , a Neapolitan , claimed , in 1646 , the honour of the invention to himself , and dated it from the year 1618 . " And Salatis died after a reign of nineteen years 40 THE FAMILY MAGAZINE . To the Publick 1.
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