Illustrations of Biblical Literature Exhibiting the History and Fate of the Sacred Writings ...: Including Biographical Notices of Translators and Other ... Biblical Scholars, Volume 1Carlton, 1856 - Bible |
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... king of Wurtemberg's library , is interspersed with very brief , but important notes , relative to the editions in that collection : Father Simon's Critical Histories , and other works , are the productions of an original and daring ...
... king of Wurtemberg's library , is interspersed with very brief , but important notes , relative to the editions in that collection : Father Simon's Critical Histories , and other works , are the productions of an original and daring ...
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... king of Egypt in the outer coat of lime , took care to engrave his own name secretly in the stone below , in order that it might come to light in after times , when the plaster with the king's name should have fallen off . In like ...
... king of Egypt in the outer coat of lime , took care to engrave his own name secretly in the stone below , in order that it might come to light in after times , when the plaster with the king's name should have fallen off . In like ...
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... king of Candy , sent an embassy to the Dutch governor of Pulicat in 1636 , the letter with which the ambassador was charged was written in Arabic , on tablets of gold . Mountfaucon ( Journey through Italy , p . 287 ) says , that in the ...
... king of Candy , sent an embassy to the Dutch governor of Pulicat in 1636 , the letter with which the ambassador was charged was written in Arabic , on tablets of gold . Mountfaucon ( Journey through Italy , p . 287 ) says , that in the ...
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... king of Candy to the Dutch government , the writing was enclosed in leaves of beaten gold , in the shape of a cocoa ... king's great seal . * Diodorus Siculus ( lib . ii , p . 84 ) affirms , that the Persians of old wrote all their ...
... king of Candy to the Dutch government , the writing was enclosed in leaves of beaten gold , in the shape of a cocoa ... king's great seal . * Diodorus Siculus ( lib . ii , p . 84 ) affirms , that the Persians of old wrote all their ...
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... King Edward II . , A. D. 1320 ; and in the Cotto- nian library are said to be several writings on this kind of paper , as early as the year 1335. The first paper - mill erected in this kingdom is said to have been at Dartford , in 1588 ...
... King Edward II . , A. D. 1320 ; and in the Cotto- nian library are said to be several writings on this kind of paper , as early as the year 1335. The first paper - mill erected in this kingdom is said to have been at Dartford , in 1588 ...
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