The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthagininas, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians, Volume 3Collins and Company, 1820 |
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... thoughts wer earnestly bent upon putting in execution the great design h had long had in his mind ; which was to attack Greece with all his forces , and particularly to take a signal vengeanc on the people of Athens and Eretria , whose ...
... thoughts wer earnestly bent upon putting in execution the great design h had long had in his mind ; which was to attack Greece with all his forces , and particularly to take a signal vengeanc on the people of Athens and Eretria , whose ...
Pagina 2
... thoughts were earnestly bent upon putting in execution the great design he had long had in his mind ; which was to attack Greece with all his forces , and particularly to take a signal vengeance on the people of Athens and Eretria ...
... thoughts were earnestly bent upon putting in execution the great design he had long had in his mind ; which was to attack Greece with all his forces , and particularly to take a signal vengeance on the people of Athens and Eretria ...
Pagina 5
... thought himself obliged to thwart the other's designs , even sometimes when they were just and beneficial to the public , lest he should gain too great an ascendant and authority , which might become pernicious to the commonwealth . One ...
... thought himself obliged to thwart the other's designs , even sometimes when they were just and beneficial to the public , lest he should gain too great an ascendant and authority , which might become pernicious to the commonwealth . One ...
Pagina 10
... thought fit to wait till his own day came . Then , like an able captain , he endeavoured by the advantage of the ground to gain what he wanted in strength and number . He drew up his army at the foot of a mountain , that the enemy ...
... thought fit to wait till his own day came . Then , like an able captain , he endeavoured by the advantage of the ground to gain what he wanted in strength and number . He drew up his army at the foot of a mountain , that the enemy ...
Pagina 13
Charles Rollin. a The Persians had thought themselves so sure of victory , that they had brought marble to Marathon , in order to erect a trophy there . The Grecians took this marble , and caused a statue to be made of it by Phidias , in ...
Charles Rollin. a The Persians had thought themselves so sure of victory , that they had brought marble to Marathon , in order to erect a trophy there . The Grecians took this marble , and caused a statue to be made of it by Phidias , in ...
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Pagina 119 - 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...
Pagina 119 - And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Pagina 119 - 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.
Pagina 323 - Every thing charms and transports me in this place," said Lysander to Cyrus ; " but what strikes me most is the exquisite taste and elegant industry of the person who drew the plan of these gardens, and gave it the fine order, wonderful disposition, and happiness of arrangement which I cannot sufficiently admire.
Pagina 201 - ... contravallation. The besiegers, after having pursued them to no purpose, returned to their camp. In the mean time, the...
Pagina 277 - ... which they would one day have been deprived by the common course of nature ; but then I cannot but be strongly affected with the cruel wound which their death has made in my heart, nor forbear hating and detesting the Athenians, the authors of this unhappy war, as the murderers of my children. But, however...
Pagina 344 - ... upon him as he passed without losing a man. They were commanded by Episthenes of Amphipolis, who was esteemed an able captain. Tissaphernes kept on without returning to the charge, because he perceived he was too weak, and went forward to Cyrus's camp, where he found the king, who was plundering it; but had not been able to force the quarter defended by the Greeks left to guard it, who saved their baggage.
Pagina 277 - I see it ready to expose itself to eternal infamy, by the barbarous advice which is now given you. The Athenians indeed merit the worst treatment, and every kind of punishment that can be inflicted on them, for so unjustly declaring war against us ; but have not the gods, the just avengers of crimes, punished them and...
Pagina 277 - How ! will you suffer your glory to be thus sullied, in the face of the whole world, and have it said, that a nation, who first dedicated a temple in their city to clemency, had not found any in yours ? Surely victories and triumphs do not give immortal glory to a city ! but the exercising of mercy towards a vanquished enemy, the using of moderation in the greatest prosperity, and fearing to offend the gods by a haughty and insolent pride.
Pagina 182 - ... to quench the raging thirst, which consumed them. Their very temples were filled with dead bodies; and every part of the city exhibited a dreadful image of death, without the least remedy for the present, or the least hopes with regard to futurity.