Historical and Miscellaneous Questions for the Use of Young PeopleLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1859 - 570 oldal |
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... famous Pelopon- nesian war , and weakened both their virtue and military force . Philip , king of Macedon , an artful and enterprising prince , embraced this favourable opportunity to enlarge his own power ; and , by bribery and ...
... famous Pelopon- nesian war , and weakened both their virtue and military force . Philip , king of Macedon , an artful and enterprising prince , embraced this favourable opportunity to enlarge his own power ; and , by bribery and ...
10. oldal
... famous Punic wars begin between the Romans and the Carthaginians ? Two hundred and sixty - four years B.C .; after long and frequent struggles . Carthage was taken and destroyed by the Romans , under Scipio , B.C. 146 , in the same year ...
... famous Punic wars begin between the Romans and the Carthaginians ? Two hundred and sixty - four years B.C .; after long and frequent struggles . Carthage was taken and destroyed by the Romans , under Scipio , B.C. 146 , in the same year ...
18. oldal
... famous for his learning , and his attachment to Heloise , flourished in this and the next century . Name some remarkable events in the twelfth century . The science of Algebra introduced into Europe from the Arabians . The order of ...
... famous for his learning , and his attachment to Heloise , flourished in this and the next century . Name some remarkable events in the twelfth century . The science of Algebra introduced into Europe from the Arabians . The order of ...
19. oldal
... famous sculptor in gold and silver ; Machiavel , the political writer ; Caxton , the first English printer ; and the celebrated Erasmus , the great restorer of learning . What were the principal events of the sixteenth century ? The ...
... famous sculptor in gold and silver ; Machiavel , the political writer ; Caxton , the first English printer ; and the celebrated Erasmus , the great restorer of learning . What were the principal events of the sixteenth century ? The ...
36. oldal
... famous temple of Diana , at Ephesus ? Ctesiphon , the celebrated architect , built , and Erostratus burnt it , with the intention of render- ing his name immortal . When was fought the battle of Marathon ? Four hundred and ninety years ...
... famous temple of Diana , at Ephesus ? Ctesiphon , the celebrated architect , built , and Erostratus burnt it , with the intention of render- ing his name immortal . When was fought the battle of Marathon ? Four hundred and ninety years ...
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322. oldal - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
467. oldal - Mens sana in corpore sano, a sound mind in a sound body, will be always able to make a good citizen.
548. oldal - Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the LORD ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to hearken than the fat of rams.
530. oldal - And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
547. oldal - And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
551. oldal - ... that it was much better to fall into the hands of God, than into those of his enemies.
344. oldal - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
530. oldal - Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time : the Lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. Entreat the Lord (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail ; and I will let yoii go, and ye shall stay no longer.
566. oldal - The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar : and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven ; till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds
547. oldal - There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.