A Manual of Ancient and Modern History ...D. Appleton, 1845 - 797 páginas |
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... celebrated hanging gardens , consisting of terraces one above another , raised upon pillars higher than the walls of the city , well floored with cement and lead , and covered with earth , in which the most beautiful trees and shrubs ...
... celebrated hanging gardens , consisting of terraces one above another , raised upon pillars higher than the walls of the city , well floored with cement and lead , and covered with earth , in which the most beautiful trees and shrubs ...
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... celebrated for the Trojan plains and the city of Troy , immortalized by Hómer . Bithyn'ia , Paphlagónia , and Pon'tus , skirt the Black sea , and were studded with Greek colonies during the flourishing age of Grecian commerce . The ...
... celebrated for the Trojan plains and the city of Troy , immortalized by Hómer . Bithyn'ia , Paphlagónia , and Pon'tus , skirt the Black sea , and were studded with Greek colonies during the flourishing age of Grecian commerce . The ...
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... celebrated for their frantic dances , in which they beat and cut themselves . Most of the Phrygian kings were named either Mídas or Gor'dius ; but the order of their succession can not be ascertained . Gor'dius I. , the founder of the ...
... celebrated for their frantic dances , in which they beat and cut themselves . Most of the Phrygian kings were named either Mídas or Gor'dius ; but the order of their succession can not be ascertained . Gor'dius I. , the founder of the ...
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... celebrated from the earliest antiquity . The Tyrian purple was not a single color , but was a generic name for all the shades of purple and scarlet . The dye was obtained from a shell - fish found in great abundance on the shores of the ...
... celebrated from the earliest antiquity . The Tyrian purple was not a single color , but was a generic name for all the shades of purple and scarlet . The dye was obtained from a shell - fish found in great abundance on the shores of the ...
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... celebrated the feast of the passover , which had been intermitted since their encampment on Sin'ai , from the want ... celebrating this solemn feast ; when it was conclu- ded , they advanced against the fortified city of Jer'icho , which ...
... celebrated the feast of the passover , which had been intermitted since their encampment on Sin'ai , from the want ... celebrating this solemn feast ; when it was conclu- ded , they advanced against the fortified city of Jer'icho , which ...
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Página 40 - So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets. And it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
Página 178 - John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire...
Página 179 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul : neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own } but they had all things common.
Página 179 - Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, and cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, las he was] calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
Página 171 - But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.
Página 44 - Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her.
Página 759 - ... where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? and let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Página 587 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern famine guards the solitary coast, And winter barricades the realms of frost; He comes, nor want nor cold his course delay; Hide, blushing glory, hide Pultowa's day: The...
Página 179 - And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
Página 42 - And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king.