The world in which I live, and my place in it, by E.S.A.

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William Macintosh, 1875 - 553 من الصفحات
 

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Shems descendants
11
CHAPTER II
12
Sapor makes Valerian the Emperor prisoner and treats
15
CHAPTER III
18
By this means Henry conquers
20
SECTION 3
25
ALEXANDER THE GREAT PUTS AN END TO THE PERSIAN EMPIRE
26
Thirtythree captains striving for power 70
27
CHAPTER II
28
The cities and colonies of Greece
30
Calisthenes put to death
32
When our Saviour ascended He ordered that the Gospel
33
Philip II makes a crusade against the Albigenses
35
Daniel lives to serve Cyrus and dies in Babylon
40
SECTION 3
44
Artaxerxes Longimanus
45
Brilliant Italian campaign followed by great victories every
47
THE RISE OF THE ROMAN POWER
48
Miltiades defeats the Persians at the battle of Marathon
49
The inspired council held at Jerusalem
52
SECTION 2
54
The Jews refuse to assist Alexander 59
59
The First Punic
65
The Jewish traditions introduced
71
Succeeded by Smerdis the Artaxerxes of Ezra iv who stops
72
PART VII
76
Prophecies of the power of Rome
83
They conquer Jerusalem 153
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CHAPTER IV
87
Herod the Great had reigned thirtyseven years when Christ
89
SECTION 2
98
The missionary labours of the Apostles
101
ALEXANDER AS HEAD OF THE GRECIAN EMPIRE
106
First persecution under Nero
107
The Romans forbid Antiochus Epiphanes to fight against Egypt
118
SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
123
Pepin conquers them and besieges Pavia the Lombard capital
124
Their reasonings in support of their claims
132
THE TIME OF THE MACCABEES
134
Charlemagne decides against the worship of images but
139
Alfred a good
142
The Directory superseded by three Consuls of which Buona
143
The good Emperors ended and almost all the succeeding rulers
147
FROM THE DIVISION OF THE SARACEN EMPIRE TO THE INVASION OF
149
SECTION 1
150
Peter the Hermit preaches the First Crusade
154
We have gone beyond the fall of the Western Empire to
160
He seeks the protection of Rome
161
The childrens crusade
162
PART V
165
THE MOGULS AND TARTARS IN ASIA AND THE CRUSADE IN EUROPE
168
The Romans put an end to the third or Grecian empire
169
Peter III tries to free his people
172
Land in England
175
Invention of the Arabic figures 152
177
Charles and Henry die the same year
178
Alphonso made the first king of Portugal
183
A D
187
Bedells Bible
189
Jerome of Prague burned
190
Empire sold to Didius Julian
193
The Cid and his king Alphonso of Old Castile unite several
195
SECTION 1
198
SECTION 2
200
The Second Punic
201
Buonaparte becomes Emperor of France and the next year
207
SECTION 3
208
The history of Scotland continued
210
War with the Pindarrees
211
Aratus dies
213
Great persecution commences ending in the expulsion of
225
Calvin and GenevaThe Genevese profess Protestantism
232
Among the good men in these dark days was Claud of Turin
242
PuritansTheir tenets and treatmentDissenters
255
CHAPTER IV
256
Constantius succeeds
260
John Knox returnsThe league in favour of Protestantism
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CONSTANTINE AND HIS SUCCessors
300
James I returns to take the throne after eighteen years
304
The Jews rebel in all parts of the Roman Empire and
305
Rebellion of the Duke of Guise who is murdered with
306
James a Romanist but promises tolerationHis character
308
James III succeedsIs dethroned by his subjects 212
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The Christian soldiers at this time very numerous and able
312
CHAPTER IV
314
Peace is broken by Louis XIV who on the death of James
317
CHAPTER V
320
They conquer Russia
324
CHAPTER I
328
George II becomes King of England
329
Alexander may be said to begin and end the Grecian Empire
330
THE PERSIAN EMPIRE AFTER ITS CONNECTION WITH GREECE
331
Peace of Utrecht
335
Gibraltar taken
341
The Spaniards make an unsuccessful attempt to recover
343
CHAPTER V
350
Lord Hastings conquers all the native forces finally and
354
The National Assembly decide that the nobles and clergy
355
THE WARS OF PETER THE GREAT AND CHARLES XII
356
The Anabaptists take MunsterAre conquered and put
357
SECTION 2
362
The Corinthian War begins
363
The King marries four wives in seven years
364
At length ended
368
disturbances
371
Peter and Ivan come to the throne
378
Theodosius comes to the throne
379
Austria and Prussia send an army to the assistance of
382
Buonaparte threatens England with invasion and her people
388
PART XIII
394
At Theodosiuss death the Empire finally divided
395
PERSECUTION IN ENGLAND AND HOW GOD DELIVERED HIS PEOPLE
398
More religious freedom in Russia
405
Alaric plunders Rome 123
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SECTION 2
408
Xerxes II succeeds Artaxerxes Longimanus 53
425
Edict of NantesSully a Protestant
426
Spain and Portugal attacked by the Vandals Goths
427
Persecution of the Covenanters 304
436
The Swedes propose to choose a new king and Charles returns 326
444
Genseric and his Vandals plunder Rome
455
SECTION 2
473
England attempts to tax her colonies which they resent
474
Hams descendants 8
475
Babylon taken
476
The first or Nicene Council against the Arian heresy
480
Philip II of Spain introduces autodafés
486
Louis XVI begins to reign
491
Philip II returns home in disgust
493
General peace signed at Ryswick 316
497
Madame Elizabeth executed the following
508
Marriage between the royal families of France and Spain
510
The race of Henry the Fowler
511
The Amphictyonic Council
513
Artaxerxes Mnemon opposed by his brother Cyrus the younger
514
Charter of exemption from taxes granted by the Great Mogul
516
Rebellion in Ireland
520
Darius Hystaspes chosen kingthe Darius of Ezra iv
521
161 Judas killedJonathan his brother becomes High Priest
522
Pompey and Crassus have no success after they enter
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Francis II succeedsDethroned by Garibaldi 1860 413
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The people fly to arms
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The Medes and Persians conquer Lydia
530
Mahmoud the Affghan conquers the last and reigns
531
Justinians brave General Belisarius puts an end to the king
534
47
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The twelve Cæsars
536
Must go back to that period in the Eastern
537
Mahomet becomes Sultan of the Turks
538
Death of Peter the Great
539
The Saracens settle in Sicily
541
The Romans leave Britain to the mercy of the Picts
542
The Goths of Spain retire before the Saracens into
545
Philip IV loses Portugal
546

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الصفحة 5 - And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
الصفحة 13 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell ih the presence of all his brethren.
الصفحة 161 - I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of life, who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified, who spake by the Prophets.
الصفحة 250 - I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
الصفحة 125 - God give me sweet talk — the hand of God defend me — the way of God guide me. Christ be with me — Christ before me— Christ after me — Christ in me — Christ under me — Christ over me — Christ on my right hand — Christ on my left hand — Christ on this side — Christ on that side — Christ at my back — Christ in the heart of every person to whom I speak — Christ in the mouth of every person who speaks to me — Christ in the eye of every person who looks upon me — Christ...
الصفحة 379 - Not to covet nor desire other men's goods ; but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that state of life, unto which it shall please God to call me.
الصفحة 45 - I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air; but I keep under my body and bring it into subjection, lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
الصفحة 88 - will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
الصفحة 35 - Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.
الصفحة 78 - But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.

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