The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians, Volum 2W. Borradaile, 1825 |
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Pàgina 9
... caused an equestrian statue to be set up with this inscription ; " Da- rius , the son of Hystaspes , acquired the kingdom of Persia by means of his horse , ( whose name was inserted , ) and of his groom , bares . " There is in Herod . 1 ...
... caused an equestrian statue to be set up with this inscription ; " Da- rius , the son of Hystaspes , acquired the kingdom of Persia by means of his horse , ( whose name was inserted , ) and of his groom , bares . " There is in Herod . 1 ...
Pàgina 11
... caused Intaphernes , with his children , and all that were of his family , to be taken up , and had them all condemned to be put to death , confounding , through a blind excess of severity , the innocent with the guilty . In these ...
... caused Intaphernes , with his children , and all that were of his family , to be taken up , and had them all condemned to be put to death , confounding , through a blind excess of severity , the innocent with the guilty . In these ...
Pàgina 14
... caused another to be drawn up , wherein the former was referred to , and ratified . This motive of regard to the memory of Cyrus , had there been nothing else to influence the king , would be very lauda- ble ; but the Scripture informs ...
... caused another to be drawn up , wherein the former was referred to , and ratified . This motive of regard to the memory of Cyrus , had there been nothing else to influence the king , would be very lauda- ble ; but the Scripture informs ...
Pàgina 17
... causing three thousand of those who were principally concerned in the revolt to be impaled , and granted a pardon to all the rest . And in order to prevent the depopulation of the city , he caused fifty thousand women to be brought from ...
... causing three thousand of those who were principally concerned in the revolt to be impaled , and granted a pardon to all the rest . And in order to prevent the depopulation of the city , he caused fifty thousand women to be brought from ...
Pàgina 23
... caused pillars to be erected , with magnificent inscriptions , in one of which he suffered himself to be called , the best and handsomest man living . " What a littleness of soul and vanity was this ! 66 And yet , if all this prince's ...
... caused pillars to be erected , with magnificent inscriptions , in one of which he suffered himself to be called , the best and handsomest man living . " What a littleness of soul and vanity was this ! 66 And yet , if all this prince's ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 110 - Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem, unto the Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks : the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself...
Pàgina 109 - Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.
Pàgina 110 - And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week : and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease...
Pàgina 75 - Thus the day passed without any action at all. In the evening the Grecians held a council of war, in which they determined to decamp, and take possession of a place more commodious for water, because the springs of their present camp were disturbed and spoiled by the enemy's horse.
Pàgina 294 - I incessantly urge to you, that virtue does not proceed from riches ; but, on the contrary, riches from virtue : and that all the other goods of human life, as well public as private, have their source in the same principle.
Pàgina 39 - In order to prevent them, he judged it necessary to vest the whole power in one single person ; and, to induce his colleagues to act conformably, he himself set the first example of resignation. When the day came on which it was his turn to take upon him the command, he resigned it to Miltiades, as the more able and experienced general. The other commanders did the same, all sentiments of jealousy giving way to the love of the public good ; and by this day's...
Pàgina 173 - Selinus, who were assisted by the Syracusans. It was the sixteenth year of the Peloponnesian war. They represented, among other things, that, should they be abandoned, the Syracusans, after seizing their city, as they had done that of Leontium, would possess themselves of all Sicily, and not fail to aid the Peloponnesians, who were their founders ; and, that they might put them to as little charge as possible, they offered to pay the troops that should be sent to succour them. The Athenians, who...
Pàgina 285 - He had no open school, like the rest of the philosophers, nor set times for his lessons; he had no benches prepared nor ever mounted a professor's chair; he was the philosopher of all times and seasons; he taught in all places, and upon all occasions; in walking, conversation at meals, in the army, and in the midst of the camp, in the public assemblies of the senate or people.
Pàgina 40 - Having but 10,000 men to oppose to such a numerous and vast army, it was impossible for him either to make a large front, or to give an equal depth to his battalions. He was obliged, therefore, to take his choice ; and he imagined, that he could gain the victory no otherwise than by the efforts he should make with his two wings, in order to break and disperse those of the Persians...
Pàgina 54 - ... again over them fastened and joined together, to serve as a kind of floor or solid bottom : all which they covered over with earth, and added rails or battlements on each side, that the horses and cattle might not be frightened with seeing the sea in their passage.