Even in the New Testament period the lowlands were occupied mainly by Gen'tiles.
Notice that the captives were mainly of the middle class, the working element (2 Kings 24.
They were divided into =various tribes=, from seven to ten nations, arranged mainlyas follows: 1.
The =Court of the Priests= was an open, unroofed quadrangle surrounding the House of the Lord, butmainly in front, toward the east.
Especially is this true of the Old Testament, of which we speak mainly in this lesson.
The kingdom of the ten tribes was established mainly through the influence of this tribe.
He said several times on the journey to the diamond fields that he considered their genuine character established; that his mission was mainly to estimate their extent and probable value.
We have thus commenced with Mr. Janin because he is well known here and it is mainly on his statements that confidence rests.
If any reader should be taken suddenly ill while staying in that town, my advice, formed mainly on negative data, would be to send for Ross during the acute stage of the malady, and to try Conklin's treatment in convalescence.
His contributions so far had been mainly interjectory and blasphemous--a department of which he was obviously a more versatile exponent than the other, who was by no means a 'prentice hand.
The question of the carriage and storage of water for thousands of men and horses over a roadless, mainlywaterless track of country should have been tackled before we left England.
Staff questions; whereas, at present, the problems awaiting me at the Dardanelles are mainly tactical; G.
Of Farragut's twenty-seven hundred men more than a seventh had fallen, victims mainly of the bear and her cubs, yet there she weltered, helpless.
But Flora felt no title to the common fate, and while the bustle of the place went on about them she hiddenly suffered and, mainly for the torment it would give her avaricious companion, told a new reason for the look in her eyes.
The examination for the License (to teach anywhere) seems to have been the most formidable of the three; that for the Doctorate being mainly ceremonial.
They are mainly citations of other passages in the Decretum itself.
But that she talked and read aloud mainly for this end, is a fair inference from what Hogg says of her talking, reading, and other behaviour during her husband's absence.
This question should be answered precisely, as the extravagant notions of the poet's ancestral quality are mainly referable to misconceptions respecting the nature of the intercourse of the ducal Howards and the Castle Goring Shelleys.
Instead of being sent to London, in accordance with the suggestion made by the Ballantynes themselves, and in accordance with the instructions sent to them by Shelley, mainly in consequence of their suggestion, the MS.
The portraits of the Young Ireland leaders are mainly from the daguerreotypes by Professor Gluckmann, and the illustrations of Tipperary in 1848 are reproduced from the "Illustrated London News" of that year.
We set out at length on the evening of the third day, having made one glorious friend, whose exertions afterwards tended mainly to secure my escape.
The true state of the matter in respect to Abraham, and his case is mainly relied upon, was without a doubt this.
The books she brought home were mainly novels, and if she perused anything else in the severe quiet of the reading-room, she did not talk about it.
They came from the five ports, mainly from Brittany, which provides four-fifths of the combatants for naval warfare.
The attack was again repulsed, thanks mainly to the firmness of the first musketry instructor, Le Breton, who had already been wounded on the 24th, and who took command of the company when all the officers had been put out of action.
It became very intense between eleven and three o'clock, and was directed mainly to the bridges of Dixmude and the trenches in the cemetery.
The attacks must be so timed that he throws them in piecemeal or fails to reach the point mainly threatened.
The enemy is generally able to deliver a well-directed stream of lead against retiring troops, mainly because he is less harassed by the return fire.
The forward troops should be posted in front of the edge of the village, partly because of the vulnerability of the actual edge to artillery fire but mainly to prevent the attack from establishing itself in the forward buildings.
It will therefore consist mainly of infantry, with artillery and machine guns, and the troops will move in the order in which they will come into action.
It may be necessary, here and there, to make reference to various archaeological or antiquarian books and other writings, but the outlook of the general reader, rather than that of the professed student, has been mainly borne in mind.
It was founded in 1829, under Government auspices, and with a great flourish of trumpets, mainly in consequence of a very favourable report prepared by Captain Stirling, R.
He had fallen below his own standard of sentimental loyalty, and if he thought of Sophy Viner it was mainly as the chance instrument of his lapse.
Almost at once, and with infinite relief, he saw that the resemblance of which Madame de Chantelle boasted was mainly external.
The cavalry was composed mainly of Mahommedans, recruited from Rohilkhand and the Gangetic Doab.
The Bombay army was recruited from its own presidency, with some Hindustanis, but chiefly formed of Mahrattas and Mahommedans; the Bombay light cavalry mainly from Hindustan proper.
Drawn from a hardy and nomadic race, the armies of Persia at first consisted mainly of cavalry, and owed much of their success to the consequent ease and rapidity of their movements.
The decisive step was taken in 323, when a picked contingent of Persians, armed mainly with missile weapons, was drafted into the phalanx, in which henceforward they formed the middle ranks of each file of sixteen men.
It is probable, however, that these resemblances are mainly due to parallelism in development, and are in all three cases adaptations necessary to support the enormous weight of the body.
Below this town it flows through a marshy plain, consisting mainly of its own alluvium; its upper course is through the territory of the Molossians; its total length is about 80 m.
These were mainly of a mystical and devotional kind, and were inspired by St Bernard, J.
The character of Arthur as a romantic hero is, in reality, very different from that which, mainly through the popularity of Tennyson's Idylls, English people are wont to suppose.
These armies were raised mainly by contracts entered into "with some knight or gentleman expert in war, and of great revenue and livelihood in the country, to serve the king in war with a number of men.
On the Indian continent arrack is made from palm toddy, rice and the refuse of the sugar refineries, but mainly from the flowers of the muohwa or mahua tree (Bassia latifolia).
The officers were mainly supplied by the Company's military college at Addiscombe in Surrey (established in 1809), and by direct appointments.
But the armies that followed the kings in their wars still consisted mainly of mercenaries, hired for the occasion; and the work of Charles and his successors was completely undone in the confusion of the religious wars.
In Italy the state maintains twelve collections, mainly devoted to pictorial art.
Still it wasmainly a minor political situation he had to deal with, and he shows an eagerness to get through it with as little moral damage as possible.
The fame that was borne over seas and mountains was founded mainly on the marvellous wealth of patristic opinion which he applied to every text of Scripture.
Our information, mainly from Von Gleichen, becomes very misty, a thing of surmises, really worthless.
One might regard him as a clever eccentric person, the unacknowledged child, perhaps, of some noble, who had put his capitalmainly into precious stones.
The decline of the Imperial power was mainly due to this extraordinary concentration of economic power in the hands of a few.
As these auxiliary forces were now mainly barbaric, so were the personalities of the new local governors.
In the absence of foreign adventure or Civil Wars, the armies weremainly used as frontier police.
Many families whose origins came from what is now German-speaking Central Europe ruled in local government during the transition, and distinct though small tribes, mainly German in speech, survived for a short time in the Empire.
The little preserved is mainly preserved in quotations and fragments.
Thirdly, we find that these courts and their subjects are not only mainly of this speech, but also, in the mass, pagan.
According to Mr. Arnold, "Douglas's reply to Lincoln was mainly a defense.
The State capital was then at Vandalia; and Lincoln's journey there from Springfield was made mainly on foot.
Judge Davis believes that Lincoln's hilarity was mainly simulated, and that "his stories and jokes were intended to whistle off sadness.
Lincoln, on the other hand, was still essentially a country lawyer, who had come into prominence mainly as the competitor of Senator Douglas in Illinois in 1858.
Fishing fleets from Russia, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan also exploit the Indian Ocean, mainly for shrimp and tuna.
The London furrier knows that there are two kinds of skins, which he distinguishes mainly by the feel; but the learned zoologist, Temminck, has pointed out a difference in the anatomical structure.
During the day it remains in its hole, issuing forth only at night to procure its food, which consists mainly of herbage.
