An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time: Compiled from Original Authors; and Illustrated with Maps, Cuts, Notes, &c. With a General Index to the Whole. ...T. Osborne, in Gray's-Inn; A. Millar, in the Strand; and J. Osborn, in Pater-noster Row., 1747 |
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Pàgina 25
... death itself . Religion . THEIR religion was very like that of the Scythians , that is , they neither built temples nor reared ftatues to the deity , which they esteemed fo derogatory to it , that they even de- molished them wherever ...
... death itself . Religion . THEIR religion was very like that of the Scythians , that is , they neither built temples nor reared ftatues to the deity , which they esteemed fo derogatory to it , that they even de- molished them wherever ...
Pàgina 41
... death , we have here , as Pezron obferves , one of the ancienteft heathen deities in all antiquity . But we fee no reafon for departing from our former opinion , that the deifying of princes is of much later date ; those groves which ...
... death , we have here , as Pezron obferves , one of the ancienteft heathen deities in all antiquity . But we fee no reafon for departing from our former opinion , that the deifying of princes is of much later date ; those groves which ...
Pàgina 50
... death he is affirmed by the last quoted father , of his king- as a known truth , to have divided his kingdom , and to have given the western or European part of it , to his uncle Dis or Pluto , furnamed alfo Agefilaus ( U ) , whilst ...
... death he is affirmed by the last quoted father , of his king- as a known truth , to have divided his kingdom , and to have given the western or European part of it , to his uncle Dis or Pluto , furnamed alfo Agefilaus ( U ) , whilst ...
Pàgina 54
... death to its conqueft by the Romans , except that the unweil- diness of so vaft an empire , did probably cause it to split itself into many petty kingdoms , under fome of his fucceffors . This was at least the cafe in which the Roman ...
... death to its conqueft by the Romans , except that the unweil- diness of so vaft an empire , did probably cause it to split itself into many petty kingdoms , under fome of his fucceffors . This was at least the cafe in which the Roman ...
Pàgina 67
... death . Our author adds , that the male - children of thofe whom the king condemned to death feldom escaped the fame fate b . ANOTHER inftance of their great refpect to their monarchs is the pompous folemnity of their funerals , which ...
... death . Our author adds , that the male - children of thofe whom the king condemned to death feldom escaped the fame fate b . ANOTHER inftance of their great refpect to their monarchs is the pompous folemnity of their funerals , which ...
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Pàgina 126 - Greek legend, a monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.
Pàgina 124 - I recollect to have heard of I am not certain that I did not see a Letter from Lord Holland on the subject of the execution of Ney ! in which he accused me of having permitted that he should be executed because I had not been able to get the better of Him in the field in some affair in Portugal. There was no foundation for the supposition that such motive could exist ! There was no such affair ! Lord Holland never reproached me to my face upon the subject ! although I sat long in Park.
Pàgina 492 - House, and ordered to go with some other persons, whom they named, to seize one Leon, a man of rank and fortune, whom they determined to put out of the way, that they might enjoy his estate. This commission Socrates positively refused. " I will not willingly," said he,
Pàgina 486 - He faid that it was folely with this view he made the peace with Sparta, and accepted the office of one of the thirty : that he had never oppofed their...
Pàgina 327 - ... was previoufly fet up in fome public place, that every man might know what bufinefs to apply his thoughts to. The Proedri were nine in number, appointed by lots out of all the tribes to which the Prytanes did not belong : they had the right of propofing to the people what they were to deliberate upon, and their office ended with the auembly.
Pàgina 285 - By the latter invention they providfd againft the too great power of a fingle perfon, as by the former they took away all apprehenfion of the archons having time to eftablim themfelves, fo as to change the conftitution.
Pàgina 467 - ... of Alcibiades, to ruin the mighty interest, which his birth, fortune, and accomplishments had gained him in Athens : to effect their purpose, they also reported that he had entered into a conspiracy to betray the city to the Lacedemonians, and that he had persuaded the Argives to undertake something to their prejudice. It was therefore determined to put him to death on his return ; but it being apprehended, that the attempt to arrest him in sight of the army might produce commotions, those who...
Pàgina 521 - I am yet alive, arise up and depart out of this sacred place; though Antipater and the Macedonians have not left so much as thy temple unpolluted." After he had thus spoken and desired to be held up, because already he began to tremble and stagger, as he was going forward, and passing by the altar, he fell down, and with a groan gave up the ghost.
Pàgina 97 - Ariantes is said to have ordered all his soldiers to appear before him at a set time, and every one, to throw, the tip of an arrow into a common heap, which amounted to so great a bulk, that he caused it to be melted down and cast into a large vessel as a monument of the transaction. Some other kings of this country are noticed by historians ; but, as nothing satisfactory is recorded of their actions, we shall pass them over in silence, and hasten to the reign of...
Pàgina 329 - ... made for poor citizens out of the public treafure ; they had the fuperintendancy of public prifons, and a power of punifhing fuch as committed...