The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonian, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians, Volumen21774 |
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... according to bis cuftom , faya be , relate , that having wrapped affigns bim three different deaths . Some , his cloak about bis neck , be ordered bis Jer This year was remarkable for the death of three great 10 HISTORY OF THE.
... according to bis cuftom , faya be , relate , that having wrapped affigns bim three different deaths . Some , his cloak about bis neck , be ordered bis Jer This year was remarkable for the death of three great 10 HISTORY OF THE.
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... According to Polybius , he rejected a barbarous propofal that was made him , before he entered Italy , and this was , to eat human flesh , at a time when his army was in abfolute want of provifions . ( y ) Some years after , fo far from ...
... According to Polybius , he rejected a barbarous propofal that was made him , before he entered Italy , and this was , to eat human flesh , at a time when his army was in abfolute want of provifions . ( y ) Some years after , fo far from ...
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... according to the maxims of found policy , and the true interest of a state . One undoubted circumftance is , that all hiftorians have obferved , that there was a fenfible change in the conduct and government of the Romans , immediately ...
... according to the maxims of found policy , and the true interest of a state . One undoubted circumftance is , that all hiftorians have obferved , that there was a fenfible change in the conduct and government of the Romans , immediately ...
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... according to the import of the claufe , fe fuaque eorum arbitrio permittere , was fubmitting themfelves , without referve , to the power of the Romans , and becoming their vaffals . Never- theless , they did not expect any great fuccefs ...
... according to the import of the claufe , fe fuaque eorum arbitrio permittere , was fubmitting themfelves , without referve , to the power of the Romans , and becoming their vaffals . Never- theless , they did not expect any great fuccefs ...
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... according to his deferts , the falfe wretch ,, who has " betrayed his country , his gods , his wife , his children ! Then , directing herfelf to Afdrubal , " Perfidious wretch , " fays fhe ; thou bafeft of creatures ! this fire will ...
... according to his deferts , the falfe wretch ,, who has " betrayed his country , his gods , his wife , his children ! Then , directing herfelf to Afdrubal , " Perfidious wretch , " fays fhe ; thou bafeft of creatures ! this fire will ...
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Página 72 - ... 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 84 - Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid? "The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
Página 71 - This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know, that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.
Página 72 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Página 71 - Nevertheless, leave the stump of his roots 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 in the grass of the earth. Let his heart be changed from man's and let a beast's heart be given unto him ; and let seven times pass over him.
Página 84 - The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
Página 131 - And thou his son, O 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 concubines, 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 284 - Ulysses, after the taking of that city. It is remarkable, that no nation in the world, however learned and ingenious, has ever produced any poems comparable to his; and that whoever have attempted any works of that kind, have all taken their plans and ideas from Homer, borrowed all their rulea from him, made him their model, and have only succeeded in proportion to their success in copying him.
Página 125 - 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 131 - UPHARSIN. 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.