Outlines of Ancient History: From the Earliest Times to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, A.D. 476, Embracing the Egyptians, Chaldæans, Assyrians, Babylonians, Hebrews, Phoenicians, Medes, Persians, Greeks, and Romans; Designed for Private Reading and as a Manual of Instruction

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Harper & brothers, 1882 - 484 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 199 - Greek legend, a monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.
Σελίδα 21 - And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Σελίδα 40 - The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, And every thing sown by the brooks, Shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
Σελίδα 214 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
Σελίδα 317 - The almost innumerable host of wanderers, men, women, and children, now " rested beneath the sod, or toiled under the yoke of slavery : the forlorn hope of the German migration had performed its duty ; the homeless people of the Cimbri and their comrades were no more
Σελίδα 56 - There fell into my hands altogether, between the commencement of my reign and my fifth year, forty-two countries with their kings, from the banks of the river Zab to the banks of the river Euphrates, the country of the Khatti, and the upper ocean of the setting sun. I brought them under one government ; I took hostages from them ; and I imposed on them tribute and offerings.
Σελίδα 80 - One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end...
Σελίδα 445 - ... the first writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed them, but transcription of the same events, and new combinations of the same images.
Σελίδα 92 - In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

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