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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... spirit , and in strict agreement with facts , there is scarcely any branch of letters so well calculated to furnish an agreeable re- laxation to the student ; to improve his understanding and enlarge his stores of useful knowledge ; or ...
... spirit , and in strict agreement with facts , there is scarcely any branch of letters so well calculated to furnish an agreeable re- laxation to the student ; to improve his understanding and enlarge his stores of useful knowledge ; or ...
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... spirit and literature of the Greeks , was at length highly propitious . § Homer flourished about 900 years B. C. He was a poor blind man , and used to travel from place to place , singing his verses . But his genius was transcendant ...
... spirit and literature of the Greeks , was at length highly propitious . § Homer flourished about 900 years B. C. He was a poor blind man , and used to travel from place to place , singing his verses . But his genius was transcendant ...
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... Spirit of God . He died 975 year's B. C. aged 58 years , and having reigned 40 years . 2. Homer was not only the greatest of the Greek poets , but the earliest whose works have survived the devastations of time . On these accounts he is ...
... Spirit of God . He died 975 year's B. C. aged 58 years , and having reigned 40 years . 2. Homer was not only the greatest of the Greek poets , but the earliest whose works have survived the devastations of time . On these accounts he is ...
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... spirit began visibly to decline in Athens . Still , as will soon appear , the following age , called the age of Pericles , was an era of the highest splendour , so far as literature , taste , and the fine arts were concerned . Cimon was ...
... spirit began visibly to decline in Athens . Still , as will soon appear , the following age , called the age of Pericles , was an era of the highest splendour , so far as literature , taste , and the fine arts were concerned . Cimon was ...
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... spirit of his reply , or were so jealous of the fame which Pericles might acquire , that they cried out , " he might spend as much as he pleased of the public treasures . " At a critical time in the Peloponnesian war , Pericles was ...
... spirit of his reply , or were so jealous of the fame which Pericles might acquire , that they cried out , " he might spend as much as he pleased of the public treasures . " At a critical time in the Peloponnesian war , Pericles was ...
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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.