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The book of similitudes: (1860)

Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885. [from old catalog] · New Haven, Conn., Pub. for the author by J. H. Bradley · leaf 306

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ess water all the earth, And clothe all climes with beauty; the reproach Of barrenness is past. The fruitful field Laughs with abundance ; and the land, once lean, Or fertile only to its own disgrace, Exults to see its thistly curse repeald. The various seasons woven into one, And that one season… … The Assyrian, called the first great monarchy of the world*extends from the Deluge, or Antediluvian Period, to the con-quest of Babylon, a period of eighteen hundred years. Babylonand Ninevah were the capitals of the Babylonian or Assyrianempire. Egypt was one of the earliest of kingdoms. Moses,the…

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