The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonian, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians, Volumen21774 |
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... engage in war against Rome ; for hitherto he had appeared wavering and uncertain on that head . ( g ) In this city a philofopher , who was looked upon as the greatest orator of Afia , had the imprudence to harangue before Hannibal , on ...
... engage in war against Rome ; for hitherto he had appeared wavering and uncertain on that head . ( g ) In this city a philofopher , who was looked upon as the greatest orator of Afia , had the imprudence to harangue before Hannibal , on ...
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... engaged in war with Eumenes king ' of Pergamus , a profeffed friend to the Romans . By means of Hannibal , the troops of king Prufias gained feveral vico- ries both by land and fea . ( 1 ) He employed a ftratagem , of an extraordinary ...
... engaged in war with Eumenes king ' of Pergamus , a profeffed friend to the Romans . By means of Hannibal , the troops of king Prufias gained feveral vico- ries both by land and fea . ( 1 ) He employed a ftratagem , of an extraordinary ...
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... engaged in fo many wars , he however found leifure to cultivate the mufes * . Several fmart . repartees of Hannibal , which have been tranfmitted to us , fhew , that he had a great fund of natural wit ; and this he improved by the most ...
... engaged in fo many wars , he however found leifure to cultivate the mufes * . Several fmart . repartees of Hannibal , which have been tranfmitted to us , fhew , that he had a great fund of natural wit ; and this he improved by the most ...
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... engage , without any danger or trouble to himfelf . And being very converfant in the writings of Homer , he added , that , till his time , there ( ) App . p . 38 . were were but two more who had been spectators of such 18 HISTORY OF THE.
... engage , without any danger or trouble to himfelf . And being very converfant in the writings of Homer , he added , that , till his time , there ( ) App . p . 38 . were were but two more who had been spectators of such 18 HISTORY OF THE.
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... engaged in a war with the Romans ; to exhort him to carry it on with vi gour , and promifing to furnish him with money and fhips . " Peo- ( m ) This news occafioned fome uneafinefs at Rome . ple began to doubt the fuccefs of a war ...
... engaged in a war with the Romans ; to exhort him to carry it on with vi gour , and promifing to furnish him with money and fhips . " Peo- ( m ) This news occafioned fome uneafinefs at Rome . ple began to doubt the fuccefs of a war ...
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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.