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History of the Christian Church, Volume III: Nicene and Post-Nicene Christianity. A.D. 311-600 by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
... Onomasticon, already alluded to, a sort of sacred geography, and fragments of an enthusiastic Apology for Origen ...
History of the Origins of Christianity. Book V. The Gospels. by Renan, Joseph Ernest (1823-1892).
... ; he has only a superficial acquaintance with the geography of Palestine, and the manners of the Jews ...
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
... the conqueror, and was invited to court; his geography of the seven climates was translated into Latin ... Achilles, but it is not justified by the geography of Homer. which contained the treasure and magazines ...
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
... been my faithful guide. His geography and chronology are wonderfully accurate; and ... the preface of Sherefeddin, and Abulfeda's Geography, (Chorasmiæ, &c., Descriptio,…
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
... obligations to M. d'Anville, for his recent geography of the Euphrates and Tigris, (Paris, 1780,…
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
... Greek historian betrays an inexcusable ignorance of the geography of the West. 2. That these treaties and ...
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
... to mean remains, descendants. Compare Malte B-m, Geography, vol. i. p. 410, edit 1832—M. but ...
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
... was gradually reduced by the improvements of ancient geography, from forty-five to twenty-four, or even ...
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
... compares with local science the ancient and modern geography. Ante portam Cyperon, is Sopron or Poson; Mallevilla ...
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 36: 1890 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
... taken back—therefore they learned little of the geography of the country—they cared for nothing but ...