The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians, and Macedonians: Including a History of the Arts and Sciences of the Ancients, Volumen1Harper & brothers, 1839 |
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... sent an embassy , 10 and con- cluded an alliance with him : and the year following , breaking the oath of fidelity which he had taken to the king of Babylon , he rebelled openly against him . thus dispossessed by violence , to throw ...
... sent an embassy , 10 and con- cluded an alliance with him : and the year following , breaking the oath of fidelity which he had taken to the king of Babylon , he rebelled openly against him . thus dispossessed by violence , to throw ...
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... sent a deputation to Gelon , by which they desired peace upon any terms . He heard their envoys with great humanity . The complete vic- tory he had gained , so far from making him haughty and untractable , had only increased his modesty ...
... sent a deputation to Gelon , by which they desired peace upon any terms . He heard their envoys with great humanity . The complete vic- tory he had gained , so far from making him haughty and untractable , had only increased his modesty ...
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... sent him home with this useful lesson ; That Syracuse in order to redeem their brother , which having accept the terms ; but representing that it was not philosophers ought very rarely , or very obligingly , to con- in their power , to ...
... sent him home with this useful lesson ; That Syracuse in order to redeem their brother , which having accept the terms ; but representing that it was not philosophers ought very rarely , or very obligingly , to con- in their power , to ...
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... sent to him . The truth of this report was not at all doubted in Syracuse ; the majority were for capitu- lating ; when a galley of thirty oars , built in haste by Agathocles , arrived in the port ; and through great difficulties and ...
... sent to him . The truth of this report was not at all doubted in Syracuse ; the majority were for capitu- lating ; when a galley of thirty oars , built in haste by Agathocles , arrived in the port ; and through great difficulties and ...
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... sent a deputation to the consul , in or- der to treat about a peace . Prudence , says Polybius , consists in knowing how to resist and yield at a sea- sonable juncture . Lutatius was not insensible how tired the Romans were grown of a ...
... sent a deputation to the consul , in or- der to treat about a peace . Prudence , says Polybius , consists in knowing how to resist and yield at a sea- sonable juncture . Lutatius was not insensible how tired the Romans were grown of a ...
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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 246 - Know, therefore, and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem, unto the Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks ; the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself...
Página 104 - 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 129 - 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.
Página 128 - 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.
Página 137 - After this I saw in the night visions and behold a fourth beast dreadful and terrible and strong exceedingly, and it had great iron teeth, it devoured and brake in pieces and stamped the residue with the feet of it, and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it and it had ten horns.
Página 129 - It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Página xxiv - By the strength of my hand I have done it, And by my wisdom; for I am prudent: And I have removed the bounds of the people, And have robbed their treasures, And I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man...
Página 246 - Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Página 103 - 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.