Ruins of Ancient Cities: With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition, Volumen1Harper & brothers, 1841 |
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... four banks of oars ; that is , four rows of benches , one above another , on which the rowers sat . A trireme had three banks . Oars were used in propelling all the vessels of the ancients , whatever might be their size.-Am. Ed . after ...
... four banks of oars ; that is , four rows of benches , one above another , on which the rowers sat . A trireme had three banks . Oars were used in propelling all the vessels of the ancients , whatever might be their size.-Am. Ed . after ...
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... four tympana , and the places which they occupied . They were evidently made prior to the introduction of the beautiful ideal in Grecian sculpture . The muscles and the veins , which are anatomically cor- rect , exhibit the soft ...
... four tympana , and the places which they occupied . They were evidently made prior to the introduction of the beautiful ideal in Grecian sculpture . The muscles and the veins , which are anatomically cor- rect , exhibit the soft ...
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... four longer , and four hundred and thirty - three wider . Added to these , there is still remaining a monu- ment of Tero , king of Agrigentum , one of the earli- est of the Sicilian tyrants . The great antiquity of this monument may be ...
... four longer , and four hundred and thirty - three wider . Added to these , there is still remaining a monu- ment of Tero , king of Agrigentum , one of the earli- est of the Sicilian tyrants . The great antiquity of this monument may be ...
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... Four hundred and fifty talents of gold . See 2 Chron . , viii . , 18. This , we may suppose , was the gross sum received , not the profit . † A.M. 3685 , B.C. 321. Diod . , lib . xviii . , p . 608 , 610 . great curiosity , having been ...
... Four hundred and fifty talents of gold . See 2 Chron . , viii . , 18. This , we may suppose , was the gross sum received , not the profit . † A.M. 3685 , B.C. 321. Diod . , lib . xviii . , p . 608 , 610 . great curiosity , having been ...
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... four draught- poles , to each of which were harnessed four sets of mules , each set consisting of four of those animals , so that it was drawn by sixty - four mules . The strongest of those creatures , and the largest , were chosen on ...
... four draught- poles , to each of which were harnessed four sets of mules , each set consisting of four of those animals , so that it was drawn by sixty - four mules . The strongest of those creatures , and the largest , were chosen on ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 121 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
Página 133 - BY THE rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Página 120 - This is the interpretation of the thing : MENE ; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL ; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES ; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Página 66 - Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold, Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.
Página 116 - Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field ; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him.
Página 291 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways and to fear him. For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of oil olive and honey...
Página 105 - And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
Página 116 - ... the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Página 116 - But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him; and he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven ; till he knew that the Most High God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
Página 115 - I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven; he cried aloud, and said thus, "Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the Dan.