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Title: 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
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Moses urges the Exodus
(Moses pleads with the Hebrews to abandon their settled life in Egypt)
 From the celebrated Biblical series by J. James Tissot
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The Hebrews—The State Grows Weak ^c : great mountain city, the summit of the hill being leveled and its edges raisedby huge understructures, which remain even to this day. The temple wasrenowned for its richness rather than its size, though one report represents itschief tower as rising 210 feet above the temple court. Two pillars, celebratedfor their beauty, rose before the doorway, and within was the Holy of Holies,the most sacred shrine of all. This was an empty chamber wherein God Himselfwas believed to have made His presence manifest to the most devoted of Hisfollowers. The days of the nations worldly glory were, however, of brief duration.Solomon was succeeded by his son Rehoboam; and the new king forgot thathis own great-grandfather Saul had been, only a short time before, one of thecommon peasantry, selected by his fellows to champion them against oppression.Rehoboam thought himself the master of his people and tried to rule as haughtilyand with the same crushing brutahty as

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