The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians, Volum 3W. J. & J. Richardson, 1804 |
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Pàgina 4
... says he , addressing himself to Xerxes , to deliver my sentiments to you on this " occasion with a liberty suitable to my age and to 46 your interest . When Darius , your father , and my brother , first thought of making war against the ...
... says he , addressing himself to Xerxes , to deliver my sentiments to you on this " occasion with a liberty suitable to my age and to 46 your interest . When Darius , your father , and my brother , first thought of making war against the ...
Pàgina 6
... says he to Artabanes , " that you are my father's brother ; were it not for " that , you should this moment suffer the just re- " ward of your audacious behaviour . But I will " punish you for it in another manner , by leaving 66 you ...
... says he to Artabanes , " that you are my father's brother ; were it not for " that , you should this moment suffer the just re- " ward of your audacious behaviour . But I will " punish you for it in another manner , by leaving 66 you ...
Pàgina 8
... say , that it is more glorious to rise in this man- ner , than it would be never to have fallen . Cer- tainly there is ... says he , " almost " equally commendable to think well one's self , or " to hearken with docility to the good ...
... say , that it is more glorious to rise in this man- ner , than it would be never to have fallen . Cer- tainly there is ... says he , " almost " equally commendable to think well one's self , or " to hearken with docility to the good ...
Pàgina 10
... says Seneca , will you find any one of them that ever stopped his ca reer of his own accord ; that was ever satisfied with his past conquests ; or that was not forming some new project or enterprise , when death surprised him ? Nor ...
... says Seneca , will you find any one of them that ever stopped his ca reer of his own accord ; that was ever satisfied with his past conquests ; or that was not forming some new project or enterprise , when death surprised him ? Nor ...
Pàgina 12
... says of Nero : Erat incredibilium cupitor . Ac- cordingly Herodotus observes , that this undertak- ing was more vain - glorious than useful , since he might with less trouble and expence have had his vessels carried over the isthmus ...
... says of Nero : Erat incredibilium cupitor . Ac- cordingly Herodotus observes , that this undertak- ing was more vain - glorious than useful , since he might with less trouble and expence have had his vessels carried over the isthmus ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 138 - 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, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Pàgina 138 - 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 137 - 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 18 - Xerxes commanded two other bridges to be built, one for the army to pass over, and the other for the baggage and beasts of burden. He appointed workmen more able and expert than the former, who went about it in this manner. They placed three hundred and sixty vessels across, some of them having three banks of oars, and others fifty oars apiece, with their sides turned towards the Euxine sea; and on the side that faced the ^Egean sea they put three hundred and fourteen.
Pàgina 66 - The whole day passed in this manner without their coming to action. In the evening the Grecians held a council of war, in which it was resolved, that they should decamp from the place they were in, and march to another, more conveniently situated for water. Night being...
Pàgina 483 - ... says Plutarch, more passionately, than to conquer Cyrus himself, or to preserve the sovereignty of his estates. Those ten thousand men, however, notwithstanding so many obstacles, carried their point, and arrived, through a thousand dangers, victorious and triumphant in their own country.
Pàgina 138 - And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary ; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Pàgina 443 - Clearchus, who comn anded them, had occasion for all his address and ability to stifle this commotion in its birth. At first he made use of authority and force, but with very ill success, and desisted therefore from...
Pàgina 359 - ... of my old age. I cannot, indeed, forbear admiring their courage and felicity, in sacrificing to their country's welfare a life, of which they would one day have been deprived by the common course of nature : but then I cannot but be strongly affected...
Pàgina 343 - All these gallies were richly trimmed; their prows being adorned with shining streamers, manned with stout rowers, commanded by good officers, and echoing with the sound of clarions and trumpets; Demosthenes having affected an air of pomp and triumph, purposely to strike terror into the enemy. This gallant sight alarmed them indeed beyond expression. They did not see any end, or even the least suspension of their calamities: All they had hitherto done or suffered was as nothing, and their work was...