A Compend of History: From the Earliest TimesR.B. Collins, 1856 |
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... Greeks ? In what were the Romans superior to the Greeks ? & c . 12. Let some chronological or geographical questions be asked at every recitation . If the special efforts , that have now been made for the improvement of this excellent ...
... Greeks ? In what were the Romans superior to the Greeks ? & c . 12. Let some chronological or geographical questions be asked at every recitation . If the special efforts , that have now been made for the improvement of this excellent ...
Σελίδα 12
... Greeks and Romans . They were more easily gained and lost . In- deed , the progress made by Semiramis , Sesostris , and others , through Asia and Africa , were little more than ex- cursions of discovery . They moved at the head of an im ...
... Greeks and Romans . They were more easily gained and lost . In- deed , the progress made by Semiramis , Sesostris , and others , through Asia and Africa , were little more than ex- cursions of discovery . They moved at the head of an im ...
Σελίδα 19
... Greeks . Nebuchadnezzar was now on the throne of Babylon ; and the extent of his dominions was answerable to the splendor of his capital . But there were two cities , whose fame and opulence rendered them objects worthy of his ambition ...
... Greeks . Nebuchadnezzar was now on the throne of Babylon ; and the extent of his dominions was answerable to the splendor of his capital . But there were two cities , whose fame and opulence rendered them objects worthy of his ambition ...
Σελίδα 35
... Greeks . The latter rendered them unable to con- tend with their enemies . Their most memorable enterprise was that of Xerxes the Great . His invasion of Greece was rendered famous by the greatness of his army , his PERSIA . 35.
... Greeks . The latter rendered them unable to con- tend with their enemies . Their most memorable enterprise was that of Xerxes the Great . His invasion of Greece was rendered famous by the greatness of his army , his PERSIA . 35.
Σελίδα 36
... Greeks as made up about 4000 men . This handful of men defend- ed the pass for two days , resisting every form of attack . The Greeks , however , growing weary of the unequal contest , at length all deserted Leonidas but his 300 , and a ...
... Greeks as made up about 4000 men . This handful of men defend- ed the pass for two days , resisting every form of attack . The Greeks , however , growing weary of the unequal contest , at length all deserted Leonidas but his 300 , and a ...
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Acheans Africa Alexander ambition ancient Antiochus arms army arts Asia Assyrian Athenians Athens Austria Babylon battle Bonaparte Brennus British called Carthage Carthaginians cause celebrated century Cesar character Charles Christ Christian civil command commerce Commodus conquered conqueror conquest Cyaxares Cyrus Darius death defeated destroyed destruction dominions Egypt emperor empire enemies England English enterprise Europe father favor fortune France French Gauls genius Germany Give some account glory Grecian Greece Greeks Hannibal Henry honor illustrious immense important inhabitants invaded invasion Italy king kingdom Lacedemon land length Lewis liberty Macedon Marius means mind monarch nations Nineveh peace period Persians Philip Phocion Pompey prince provinces Ptolemy Soter Pyrrhus reign religion republic revolution Romans Rome ruin Russia seemed senate soon Spain Sparta Spartan spirit succeeded success successor Sweden Sylla Syria Themistocles throne tion took Turks United victory virtue wars Xerxes
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Σελίδα 225 - Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself as for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time.
Σελίδα 123 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Σελίδα 206 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears : we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing...
Σελίδα 26 - I behold most cheering indications of the near approach of that day, when all shall know the Lord, from the least unto the greatest.
Σελίδα 103 - ... Exposed to the factions which divide my Country, and to the enmity of the greatest Powers of Europe, I have terminated my political career ; and I come, like Themistocles, to throw myself upon the hospitality of the British People.
Σελίδα 103 - I put myself under the protection of their laws ; which I claim from your Royal Highness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies.
Σελίδα 96 - ... to the noise of a tumultuous assembly, and with pebbles in his mouth that he might correct a defect in his speech...
Σελίδα 110 - The city was fired ; and. in four days, the fire and the sword of the Turk, rendered the beautiful Scio a clotted mass of blood and ashes. The details are too shocking to be recited. Forty thousand women and children, unhappily saved from the general destruction, were afterwards sold in the market of Smyrna, and sent off into distant and hopeless servitude.
Σελίδα 84 - I honour and love you ; but I shall choose rather to obey God than you, and to my latest breath shall never renounce my philosophy, nor cease to exhort and reprove you, according to my custom, by telling- each of you, when you come in my way, My good friend and citizen of the most famous city in the world for wisdom and valour, are you not ashamed to have no other thoughts than...
Σελίδα 215 - He sang of the creation of the world, and the origin of the human race...