The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands . The Phoenicians—Under Turkish Rule 67 finally became masters of all this ;and of Asiatic Turkey in the sixteenthcentury. To their barbaric robbery
The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands . The Phoenicians—Under Turkish Rule 67 finally became masters of all this ;and of Asiatic Turkey in the sixteenthcentury. To their barbaric robbery and neglect has been due the final downfallof the Phoenician cities. Says the historian Kendrick, Neither sieges norearthquakes have done so much as Turkish oppression and misrule to make Tyrewhat the traveller now sees, in the words of the Bible, a rock for fishermento spread their nets Jeremiah prophesies the destruction of ltbb
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