The History of Ancient Europe: With a View of the Revolutions in Asia and Africa. In a Series of Letters to a Young Nobleman, Volumen2H. Maxwell, Columbia-house, 1801 |
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... Sparta 126 . The Lacedæmonians , as I have frequently had occasion to observe , had been considered as the leading people in Greece , ever since the conquest of Messenia . And they had often asserted their supe- riority with a high hand ...
... Sparta 126 . The Lacedæmonians , as I have frequently had occasion to observe , had been considered as the leading people in Greece , ever since the conquest of Messenia . And they had often asserted their supe- riority with a high hand ...
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... Spartan senate . With this view , he produced a plate of brass , on which was engraved a geogra- phical delineation , or map of the world , as far as then known , with all its seas and rivers . To that plate he pointed , and described ...
... Spartan senate . With this view , he produced a plate of brass , on which was engraved a geogra- phical delineation , or map of the world , as far as then known , with all its seas and rivers . To that plate he pointed , and described ...
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... Spartan king , to learn the issue of his negociation , than Cleomenes asked , in what time an army could march from the coast of Ionia to Susa , " In three months , " answered Aristagoras unguard- edly . Begone from Sparta , Milesian ...
... Spartan king , to learn the issue of his negociation , than Cleomenes asked , in what time an army could march from the coast of Ionia to Susa , " In three months , " answered Aristagoras unguard- edly . Begone from Sparta , Milesian ...
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... Sparta ; whose friendship he had gained by acts of hospitality , during the expulsion of the Pisistratida '39 . menes , glad of an opportunity of displaying the power of Sparta at Athens , and of humbling that rival state , which he had ...
... Sparta ; whose friendship he had gained by acts of hospitality , during the expulsion of the Pisistratida '39 . menes , glad of an opportunity of displaying the power of Sparta at Athens , and of humbling that rival state , which he had ...
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... Sparta , sent ambassadors to Artaphernes , governor of Sardis , prefering an alli- ance with the Persian court147 . The haughty satrap asked who the Athenians were , that they presumed to treat , on a footing , with the great king ...
... Sparta , sent ambassadors to Artaphernes , governor of Sardis , prefering an alli- ance with the Persian court147 . The haughty satrap asked who the Athenians were , that they presumed to treat , on a footing , with the great king ...
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Página 39 - 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 birds
Página 2 - All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations...
Página 39 - ... thou know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Página 2 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Página 8 - And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing ? And Elisha answered, The Lord hath showed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.
Página 32 - Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
Página 8 - And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died : and Hazael reigned in his stead.
Página 8 - And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel : their strongholds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
Página 7 - So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Ben-hadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease ? And Elisha said unto.
Página 7 - And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.