A Compend of History: From the Earliest TimesR.B. Collins, 1856 |
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Σελίδα 26
... followed , as we have formerly noted . Cyaxares pursued his conquests , leaving only Chaldea to the king of Babylon ; and , having extended his territories , and enriched his armies with treasures and spoils of immense value , he ...
... followed , as we have formerly noted . Cyaxares pursued his conquests , leaving only Chaldea to the king of Babylon ; and , having extended his territories , and enriched his armies with treasures and spoils of immense value , he ...
Σελίδα 31
... fabulous . The voluntary submission of many states , by their ambas- sadors , followed the conquest of Lydia ; and Cyrus had little further use for arms in that country . CHAPTER VI THE PERSIAN EMPIRE , FROM THE REDUCTION OF PERSIA . 31.
... fabulous . The voluntary submission of many states , by their ambas- sadors , followed the conquest of Lydia ; and Cyrus had little further use for arms in that country . CHAPTER VI THE PERSIAN EMPIRE , FROM THE REDUCTION OF PERSIA . 31.
Σελίδα 43
... followed their example . The members of the Amphictyonic league , for a consid- erable time , were fully employed in regulating their own . governments , and repelling the invasions of their hostile neighbors ANCIENT GREECE . 43.
... followed their example . The members of the Amphictyonic league , for a consid- erable time , were fully employed in regulating their own . governments , and repelling the invasions of their hostile neighbors ANCIENT GREECE . 43.
Σελίδα 47
... followed them . Their absence , for a course of years , had quite altered the scene of things ; as it had opened the way to conspiracies , usurpations , and exterminating revolutions . Their vacant thrones had been filled by usurpers ...
... followed them . Their absence , for a course of years , had quite altered the scene of things ; as it had opened the way to conspiracies , usurpations , and exterminating revolutions . Their vacant thrones had been filled by usurpers ...
Σελίδα 61
... followed by the same fortunes . Greece had now acquired the summit of her glory and happiness ; but still she continued to exhibit unquestionable proofs , that no community can either boast of unsullied vir- tue , or can enjoy unmingled ...
... followed by the same fortunes . Greece had now acquired the summit of her glory and happiness ; but still she continued to exhibit unquestionable proofs , that no community can either boast of unsullied vir- tue , or can enjoy unmingled ...
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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...