The history of the CarthaginiansBrown & Peters, 1829 |
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... walls 2. The quays and bridge 4. The palaces , and hanging gardens 5. The temple of Belus 3. The lake , ditches , and canals made for the draining of the river CHAP . II . The second Assyrian empire , both of Nineveh and Babylon Kings ...
... walls 2. The quays and bridge 4. The palaces , and hanging gardens 5. The temple of Belus 3. The lake , ditches , and canals made for the draining of the river CHAP . II . The second Assyrian empire , both of Nineveh and Babylon Kings ...
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... walls , all the opportunities of in- dulging themselves in excesses of every kind . To lay aside , for one instant , the laws of equity , I leave the reader to determine which of these two great men reasoned most justly , according to ...
... walls , all the opportunities of in- dulging themselves in excesses of every kind . To lay aside , for one instant , the laws of equity , I leave the reader to determine which of these two great men reasoned most justly , according to ...
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... walls , Asdrubal , who was at the head of 20,000 men , and to whom deputies were sent accordingly , to en- treat him to forget , for his country's sake , the injustice which had been done him , from the dread they were under of the ...
... walls , Asdrubal , who was at the head of 20,000 men , and to whom deputies were sent accordingly , to en- treat him to forget , for his country's sake , the injustice which had been done him , from the dread they were under of the ...
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... walls . But perceiving a tower that was forsaken , and which stood without the city , very near the walls , he detached thither a party of intrepid and resolute soldiers , who , by the help of pontons , * got from the tower on the walls ...
... walls . But perceiving a tower that was forsaken , and which stood without the city , very near the walls , he detached thither a party of intrepid and resolute soldiers , who , by the help of pontons , * got from the tower on the walls ...
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... walls , in sight of the whole army . There he put them to the most exquisite torture ; putting out their eyes , cutting off their noses , ears , and fingers ; tearing their skin from their body with iron rakes or harrows , and then ...
... walls , in sight of the whole army . There he put them to the most exquisite torture ; putting out their eyes , cutting off their noses , ears , and fingers ; tearing their skin from their body with iron rakes or harrows , and then ...
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Æsop affairs afterwards amongst ancient Appian Aristagoras arms army Asia Assyrians Astyages Athenians Athens authority Babylon Babylonians battle body brother called Cambyses carried Carthage Carthaginians caused chariots citizens commanded courage Croesus Cyaxares Cyrop Cyrus Cyrus's Darius death Democedes desired Egypt Egyptians empire enemy enemy's expedition father favour forces gave give glory gods gold Grecians Greece Herod Herodotus honour horse Ibid inhabitants Jugurtha king king's kingdom Lacedæmonians laws liberty likewise lived Lycurgus magnificence manner Masinissa master means Medes nations never Nineveh obliged observed occasion officers palace Peloponnesus Persian empire Persians persons Pisistratus Plin Plut Plutarch Polybius prince provinces reason reign rendered riches river Romans Rome Sardis says Scipio Scripture Scythians senate sent siege Smerdis soldiers Solon soon Sparta speak subjects temple thing thou thought throne tion took troops victory walls whole Xenophon
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Página 64 - ... the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Página 142 - I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them ; until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High ; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
Página 123 - THUS saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, Whose right hand I have holden, To subdue nations before him ; And I will loose the loins of kings, To open before him the two leaved gates; And the gates shall not be shut...
Página 123 - I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight : I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron : and I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel. For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name : I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
Página 63 - 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 128 - 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 61 - Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah ; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother ! or, Ah sister ! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord ! or, Ah his glory ! He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
Página 122 - O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; Happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Página 128 - Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this ; but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of Heaven, and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concuhines, have drunk wine in them ; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know : and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified...
Página 122 - For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.