A Compend of History: From the Earliest TimesR.B. Collins, 1856 |
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Σελίδα 11
... carried to the astonishing height of 360 feet , were 87 feet in thickness , and enclosed an exact square , whose side was 15 miles ; so that the city was sixty miles in circuit . There were 50 grand streets , that is , twenty - five ...
... carried to the astonishing height of 360 feet , were 87 feet in thickness , and enclosed an exact square , whose side was 15 miles ; so that the city was sixty miles in circuit . There were 50 grand streets , that is , twenty - five ...
Σελίδα 12
... carried up to the height of the wall , and over all a plat- form was laid four hundred feet square , formed by flat stones of an amazing size , over which were layers of reeds , then bricks cemented , and plates of lead , and then the ...
... carried up to the height of the wall , and over all a plat- form was laid four hundred feet square , formed by flat stones of an amazing size , over which were layers of reeds , then bricks cemented , and plates of lead , and then the ...
Σελίδα 15
... carried the Ten Tribes into captivity , and planted them in Media . event happened about 250 years after the separation of Israel from Judah . From this captivity the Ten Tribes . never returned . The probability is , that they soon ...
... carried the Ten Tribes into captivity , and planted them in Media . event happened about 250 years after the separation of Israel from Judah . From this captivity the Ten Tribes . never returned . The probability is , that they soon ...
Σελίδα 19
... carried the Jews to Babylon , where they remained 70 years . Four years after , he besieged the city of Tyre ; the reduction of which was the most arduous enterprise of his life . Tyre had stood , from its foundation , 660 years ...
... carried the Jews to Babylon , where they remained 70 years . Four years after , he besieged the city of Tyre ; the reduction of which was the most arduous enterprise of his life . Tyre had stood , from its foundation , 660 years ...
Σελίδα 24
... carried on wars with various success ; subjected the Per sians to his power ; made war with Nabuchodonosor , the king of Nineveh , in which he was unfortunate , and termi nated his career , together with his life , after a reign of ...
... carried on wars with various success ; subjected the Per sians to his power ; made war with Nabuchodonosor , the king of Nineveh , in which he was unfortunate , and termi nated his career , together with his life , after a reign of ...
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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...