An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time, Volume 13

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T. Osborne, 1759
 

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Page 479 - ... and I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be king to them all : and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all...
Page 384 - Jufticc to all the reft ? bitious favourite woman a poft pricfta priefts and officers. They had their judges and interpreters of the law, who were maintained at the charge of the people, and thefe get their living by traffic and labour. There are great numbers of them in the mountains of Morocco, who are employed in the Iron manufacture, building, and other fuch laborious employments, to which the inhabitants are averfe. But this doth not hinder others from trying their fortunes at court, and raifing...
Page 428 - GOD, who made the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them; and there is One JESUS CHRIST, the SON of GOD, the Only-begotten, of whose kingdom I am an expectant.
Page 479 - children of Ifrael from among the heathen, " whither they be gone, and will gather them " on every fide, and bring them into their own " land: and I will make them one nation in *' the land upon the mountains of Ifrael; and one king...
Page 142 - Lefs, whocompofed a prayer full of the bittereft cui fes againft heretics, by which they mean the Chriftians, and which are (till in ufe to this day. Gamaliel was no lefs an enemy to them ; and yet both have been challenged, the former as the celebrated matter of our great apoftle, the other as his difciple in his, unconverted ftate ; for take the 0 mem from and there remain* Saul ; and the word Kalon, or lefler.
Page 60 - However, animated by their danger, the imperialifb began to redouble their endeavours : but were ready to turn their backs, when thofe, who kept the baggage, and remained for referves, advanced to their relief. At...
Page 160 - Jcnvifb emendations were founded. However, Hillel, as prince of the captivity in the weft, introduced it by his authority, and thereby made way for the other two ; though it is not improbable that they, as a conquered people, were forced, in this, as in other cafes, to fubmit to the laws of the conquerors, and to adopt the reformation made by Julius Ciefar.
Page 141 - Rabbies, according to custom, have raised to so surprising a height, that, according to them, if the whole heavens were paper, all the trees in the world pens, and all the men writers, they would not suffice to pen down all his lessons.
Page 1 - the name of the immortal god, do you endeavour to dif« ' turb my tranquility ? Suffer me, I befeech you, to pafs ' in quiet, in my cell, the few days I have to live ; and let ' my brother rule the Othman empire : for he was born to go' vern, but I to the ftudy of eternal life.

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