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 . 1-22. The Hebrews—Building the Nation 43 and prophet Moses, they left Egypt to seek once more a land of freedom andof peace. We have no means of s
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 . 1-22. The Hebrews—Building the Nation 43 and prophet Moses, they left Egypt to seek once more a land of freedom andof peace. We have no means of setting exact dates to these wanderings of Abrahamand his descendants. If we make the first migration from Ur coincident withthe Elamite conquest, the time would be about 2285 Josephs period ofrule in Eg3rpt must have been not far from the year 1720 ; and the exodusunder IMoses may have occurred about 1300 For the forty years following, the exiles led a nomadic life, as their fathershad done of old. They pastured their scanty flocks on the herbage of Sinai,a barren land, but by no means so desolate as the earUer home of their Semiteancestors in Arabia. Finally, feeling themselves strong enough, the wanderersadvanced northward into Palestine. They found it no longer the thinly peopledcountry it had been in Abrahams day. Under Joshua they waged battle alterbattle against its Canaanite cities before becoming masters of the land. Indeed
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