Ancient History: History of the PersiansReligious Tract Society, 1842 - 123 pagina's |
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Pagina 1
... represents it as a powerful monarchy in ages before the empires of Nineveh and Babylon had begun to rise . How can these accounts be reconciled ? The invasion and conquest of Elam is noticed Jer . xxv . 25 , 26 ; xlix . 34-39 , the ...
... represents it as a powerful monarchy in ages before the empires of Nineveh and Babylon had begun to rise . How can these accounts be reconciled ? The invasion and conquest of Elam is noticed Jer . xxv . 25 , 26 ; xlix . 34-39 , the ...
Pagina 2
... represents Cambyses , the father of Cyrus , though descended from an ancient Persian family , as inferior to a Mede of ... represented as inhabiting part of Media , but by the ancients , generally , they were con- sidered as a people of ...
... represents Cambyses , the father of Cyrus , though descended from an ancient Persian family , as inferior to a Mede of ... represented as inhabiting part of Media , but by the ancients , generally , they were con- sidered as a people of ...
Pagina 4
... represented as very barren . Ptolemy places here a celebrated emporium , called , “ The Haven of Women , " which Arrian says was so called because it was first governed by a wo- man . He also mentions two islands dependent on this ...
... represented as very barren . Ptolemy places here a celebrated emporium , called , “ The Haven of Women , " which Arrian says was so called because it was first governed by a wo- man . He also mentions two islands dependent on this ...
Pagina 6
... Representing Dido chiding Æneas , he puts into her mouth these words : " False as thou art , and more than false , forsworn , Not sprung from noble blood , nor goddess - born , But hewn from harden'd entrails of a rock ! And rough ...
... Representing Dido chiding Æneas , he puts into her mouth these words : " False as thou art , and more than false , forsworn , Not sprung from noble blood , nor goddess - born , But hewn from harden'd entrails of a rock ! And rough ...
Pagina 13
... are none open . The expenses attending the working of them seems to have equalled their produce , which is represented as the cause of their abandonment . Iron is abundant in many places , HISTORY OF THE PERSIANS . 13.
... are none open . The expenses attending the working of them seems to have equalled their produce , which is represented as the cause of their abandonment . Iron is abundant in many places , HISTORY OF THE PERSIANS . 13.
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Pagina 48 - THUS saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, Whose right hand I have holden, To subdue nations before him ; And I will loose the loins of kings, To open before him the two leaved gates; And the gates shall not be shut...
Pagina 50 - Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia...
Pagina 106 - No — man is dear to man ; the poorest poor Long for some moments in a weary life •' When they can know and feel that they have been, Themselves, the fathers and the dealers out Of some small blessings ; have been kind to such As needed kindness, for this single cause, That we have all of us one human heart.
Pagina 39 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil : hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science, blinds The eyesight of Discovery ; and begets, In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, Bestial, a meager intellect. unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form.
Pagina 30 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power ? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: for he is the minister of God to thee for good.
Pagina 41 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Pagina 96 - Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.
Pagina 14 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry, " Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us !" The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round.
Pagina 87 - And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those.
Pagina 50 - Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.