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Joshua

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Joshua (lived 13th century BC)

In the Old Testament, successor of Moses, who led the Jews in their return to, and conquest of, the land of Canaan. The city of Jericho was the first to fall - according to the Book of Joshua, the walls crumbled to the blast of his trumpets.

Joshua

Oratorio by Handel (libretto by T Morell), first performed at Covent Garden, London, England, on 23 March 1748.


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-- that residuary legatee was Joshua Rigg, who was also sole executor, and who was to take thenceforth the name of Featherstone.
To the men who fought against the rising truths of physical philosophy, it seemed that if they admitted that truth it would destroy faith in God, in the creation of the firmament, and in the miracle of Joshua the son of Nun.
Over these mysterious figures was written, in large letters, “The Templeton Coffee-house, and Traveller’s Hotel,” and beneath them, “By Habakkuk Foote and Joshua Knapp.
 
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