The World Displayed, in Its History and Geography;: Embracing a History of the World, from the Creation to the Present Day ...H. Savage, 1833 |
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... Commencement of the Christian Era . This is the pe- riod of Roman Literature . Observations . The characteristic , or title of each of these pe- riods , is derived from some prominent event , or striking peculiarity by which it is ...
... Commencement of the Christian Era . This is the pe- riod of Roman Literature . Observations . The characteristic , or title of each of these pe- riods , is derived from some prominent event , or striking peculiarity by which it is ...
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... commence with the Assyrian nation , and briefly trace the outline of its history , as also the history of other sovereignties that existed during this period . ASSYRIA . 8. ASSYRIA , considered as afterwards including Babylonia , is the ...
... commence with the Assyrian nation , and briefly trace the outline of its history , as also the history of other sovereignties that existed during this period . ASSYRIA . 8. ASSYRIA , considered as afterwards including Babylonia , is the ...
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... commencement of the Greeks , as a commu- nity , from the founding of Argos by Inachus , who arrived in Greece , from Phoenicia , 1856 years B. C. Sicyon is by some thought to have been founded before ; but we incline to the opinion that ...
... commencement of the Greeks , as a commu- nity , from the founding of Argos by Inachus , who arrived in Greece , from Phoenicia , 1856 years B. C. Sicyon is by some thought to have been founded before ; but we incline to the opinion that ...
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... commenced 1193 years B. C. , and terminated in ten years . Troy was taken and burnt to the ground . This war was undertaken by the princes of Greece to avenge the wrongs sustained by Mene- laus , king of Lacedæmon , whose wife , Helen ...
... commenced 1193 years B. C. , and terminated in ten years . Troy was taken and burnt to the ground . This war was undertaken by the princes of Greece to avenge the wrongs sustained by Mene- laus , king of Lacedæmon , whose wife , Helen ...
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... commencement of this refor mation , is 884 years B. C. § After the return of the Heraclidæ , Sparta was divided between the two sons of Aristodemus , Eurysthenes and Procles , who reigned jointly . The occasion of this was , that ...
... commencement of this refor mation , is 884 years B. C. § After the return of the Heraclidæ , Sparta was divided between the two sons of Aristodemus , Eurysthenes and Procles , who reigned jointly . The occasion of this was , that ...
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Página 201 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Página 194 - Astarte, queen of Heaven, with crescent horns ; To whose bright image nightly by the moon Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs...
Página 216 - 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...
Página 25 - He was a mighty hunter before the Lord : wherefore it is said, "Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord." And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Página 336 - The fellows or monks of my time were decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder : their days were filled by a series of uniform employments ; the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber. .From the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their conscience...
Página 142 - Large countries, and in fields great battles win, Great cities by assault: what do these worthies, But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations...
Página 123 - He knew how to reconcile the most enterprising spirit with the coolest moderation ; the most obstinate perseverance with the easiest flexibility; the most severe justice with the gentlest lenity ; the greatest vigour in commanding with the most perfect affability of deportment ; the highest capacity and inclination for science, with the most shining talents for action.
Página 15 - And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
Página 206 - Her heroism was exempt from temerity, her frugality from avarice, her friendship from partiality, her active temper from turbulency and a vain ambition : She guarded not herself with equal care or equal success from lesser infirmities; the rivalship of beauty, the desire of admiration, the jealousy of love, and the sallies of anger.
Página 266 - He scarce had ceased when the superior Fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.