An original history of ancien AmericaLongman, Brown & Longmans, 1843 - 461 pagina's |
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... In the first place , with a crooked piece of iron they pull out the brain by the [ way of the ] nostrils ! " [ Book ii . , sections 86-89 . ] So extraordinary a statement might well originally have brought suspicion upon his entire ...
... In the first place , with a crooked piece of iron they pull out the brain by the [ way of the ] nostrils ! " [ Book ii . , sections 86-89 . ] So extraordinary a statement might well originally have brought suspicion upon his entire ...
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Aborigines accomplished æra Africa Alexander Alexander of Macedon Altar analogy Ancient America antiquity Apollo apparent Architecture Azelmic believe builders building Canaan Carthage character chief Christian columns conclusion consequently Copan custom descendants discovery distinctly East-Wind edifice Egypt Egyptian emblem erected established event expedition EZEKIEL fact feet Fortunate Isles Galleys Guanches Hebrew Herodotus hieroglyphics Hiram Historian History instantly ISAIAH Island Israel Israelites Japheth Jerusalem Judæa King of Tyrus knowledge land language LORD Macedonian Mediterranean Mexican Aborigines Mexican America Monarch Mummies Nation Nature Navigation Nile Ocosingo original Palace Palenque Phoenician practised present proof Prophecy Prophet prove pyramidal racter reader received record Religious Ruins sacred Scripture Sculpture shewn shore Sidon Sidonians Siege Solomon stone stucco Temple Teneriffe terrace thee thence thou tion Tribe Tribe of Asher truth Tyrians Tyrus Uxmal Volume Voyage walls Western Continent Western Hemisphere worship writing
Populaire passages
Pagina 178 - In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace ; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Pagina 424 - Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father : there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me : for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
Pagina 209 - And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard; And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Pagina 294 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Pagina 240 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Pagina 330 - Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall ? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you.
Pagina 181 - And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah : and I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship...
Pagina 140 - Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
Pagina 212 - Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth : thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them...
Pagina 270 - The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.