Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryVicesimus Knox J. Johnson, 1808 - 1 páginas An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... Jews at present . 1. We will consider them with a view to the order of time , rather than the order wherein they lie ; and we may not im- properly begin with this passage , ver . 49 , " The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from ...
... Jews at present . 1. We will consider them with a view to the order of time , rather than the order wherein they lie ; and we may not im- properly begin with this passage , ver . 49 , " The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from ...
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... Jews dwelling in it , and those only of a low servile condition . Benjamin of Tudela , in Spain , a cele- brated Jew of the twelfth century , tra- velled into all parts to visit those of his own nation , and to learn an exact state of 7 ...
... Jews dwelling in it , and those only of a low servile condition . Benjamin of Tudela , in Spain , a cele- brated Jew of the twelfth century , tra- velled into all parts to visit those of his own nation , and to learn an exact state of 7 ...
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... Jews took refuge in the castle of Masada , where being closely be- sieged by the Romans , they at the persua- sion of Eleazar , their leader , first murdered their wives and children ; then ten men were chosen by lot to slay the rest ...
... Jews took refuge in the castle of Masada , where being closely be- sieged by the Romans , they at the persua- sion of Eleazar , their leader , first murdered their wives and children ; then ten men were chosen by lot to slay the rest ...
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