A General History of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time: Including All the Empires, Kingdoms, and States, Their Revolution, Forms of Government, Laws, Religions, Customs and Manners...together with Their Chronology, Antquities, Public Buildings, and Curiosities of Nature and Art, Volumen2J. Newbery, 1764 |
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... Cyrus . The river Euphrates , from which many channels were cut in the plain of Babylon , has its fource in the mountains of Arme- nia , and after washing the eastern skirts of Syria , and dividing phrates . Arabia from Mefopotamia , it ...
... Cyrus . The river Euphrates , from which many channels were cut in the plain of Babylon , has its fource in the mountains of Arme- nia , and after washing the eastern skirts of Syria , and dividing phrates . Arabia from Mefopotamia , it ...
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... Cyrus removing the feat of the empire to Shufhan , Babylon fell by degrees into utter decay . When Alexander came to Babylon , Quintus Curtius tells us no more than ninety furlongs of it was then built , which can no otherwise be ...
... Cyrus removing the feat of the empire to Shufhan , Babylon fell by degrees into utter decay . When Alexander came to Babylon , Quintus Curtius tells us no more than ninety furlongs of it was then built , which can no otherwise be ...
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... Cyrus , then near 16 years of age , and fuch troops as could be affembled on fo fudden an emergency , marched out to meet him , determined to repel force by force . The parties engaging , Evil - merodach was routed , and purfued home to ...
... Cyrus , then near 16 years of age , and fuch troops as could be affembled on fo fudden an emergency , marched out to meet him , determined to repel force by force . The parties engaging , Evil - merodach was routed , and purfued home to ...
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... Cyrus . The Indians only offered their mediation , which had no effect . Cyrus hav- ing alfo fubdued the Chaldeans , who are faid to have inhabited the mountains next to Armenia , and confequently must have been Afyrians , led his army ...
... Cyrus . The Indians only offered their mediation , which had no effect . Cyrus hav- ing alfo fubdued the Chaldeans , who are faid to have inhabited the mountains next to Armenia , and confequently must have been Afyrians , led his army ...
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... Cyrus lays befieged by Cyrus . The fiege of this important place was fiege to no eafy enterprize . The walls were of a prodigious height , Babylon . the number of men to defend them very great , and the city was stored with all forts of ...
... Cyrus lays befieged by Cyrus . The fiege of this important place was fiege to no eafy enterprize . The walls were of a prodigious height , Babylon . the number of men to defend them very great , and the city was stored with all forts of ...
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Página 45 - Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia, 7 After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia : but the Spirit suffered them not.
Página 40 - The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar; and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like bird's claws.
Página 23 - Whom men could not honour in presence, because they dwelt far off, they took the counterfeit of his visage from far, and made an express image of a king whom they honoured, to the end that by this their forwardness they might flatter him that was absent as if he were present.
Página 43 - Nitocris, with orders, at an appointed time, to break down the great bank which was between the lake and the canal, and to turn the whole current into the lake. At the fame time he appointed one body of troops at the place where the river entered...
Página 330 - he had profecuted to the utmoft of his. " power •*• pou-er the war againft the Thracians, and other -" enemies to the ftate of Athens. But that it was *' true, he had not made any inroads into Mace...
Página 360 - House, and ordered to go with some other persons, whom they named, to seize one Leon, a man of rank and fortune, whom they determined to put out of the way, that they might enjoy his estate. This commission Socrates positively refused. " I will not willingly," said he,
Página 43 - To which end he caused a line of circumvallation to be drawn quite round the city with a large and deep ditch ; and, that his troops might not be over-fatigued, he divided his army into twelve bodies, and assigned each of them its month for guarding the trenches.
Página 36 - Nebuchadnezzar embellished it, and made it one of the wonders of the world. The most famous works in and about it were the walls of the city, the temple of Belus, Nebuchadnezzar's palace, the hanging gardens, the banks of the river, the artificial lake, and the canals. The walls were 87 feet thick, 350 feet high, and...
Página 145 - Greece : and that he might never forget this resolution , he commanded one of his officers to cry out to him with a loud voice every night, when he was at supper : Sir, remember the Athenians.
Página 136 - ... splendid bow, suspended at his right hand, upon a corner of the golden throne whereon he sat, he thus continued : — " Give your master this weapon, and say the king of Ethiopia advises the monarch of Persia to make war against his country, when the Persians shall be able thus easily to bend so strong a bow; and, in the mean time, to thank the gods, that they never inspired the Ethiopians with a desire of extending their dominions beyond the boundaries of their native country.