Ruins of Ancient Cities: With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition, 2. kötetHarper & brothers, 1841 |
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16. oldal
... five hundred troopers who guarded the open country of Messene , happening to come up and re - enforce him , he faced about and rout- ed Philopomen . This general , who was solicitous of nothing but to save the gallant youths who had ...
... five hundred troopers who guarded the open country of Messene , happening to come up and re - enforce him , he faced about and rout- ed Philopomen . This general , who was solicitous of nothing but to save the gallant youths who had ...
20. oldal
... five centuries before Christ . It is hardly credible , how- ever , that the Argives , who were an exceedingly mild and benevolent people , should have committed such an act of atrocity . Strabo could not determine where Mycena stood ...
... five centuries before Christ . It is hardly credible , how- ever , that the Argives , who were an exceedingly mild and benevolent people , should have committed such an act of atrocity . Strabo could not determine where Mycena stood ...
25. oldal
... five sail , belonging to the enemy , compelled them to draw off their forces and retire . In the year 412 B.C. , the inhabitants of Miletus joined the Lacedæmonian party against Athens . When the Athenians heard of this , they voted the ...
... five sail , belonging to the enemy , compelled them to draw off their forces and retire . In the year 412 B.C. , the inhabitants of Miletus joined the Lacedæmonian party against Athens . When the Athenians heard of this , they voted the ...
28. oldal
... five zones ; and recommended the division of the year into three hun- dred and sixty - five days . The inventor of sundials and the gnomon . This philoso- pher had , however , many curious opinions ; among which may be mentioned , that ...
... five zones ; and recommended the division of the year into three hun- dred and sixty - five days . The inventor of sundials and the gnomon . This philoso- pher had , however , many curious opinions ; among which may be mentioned , that ...
31. oldal
... five feet three inches in diameter , and belongs to the peristyle . The temple was hexastyle and peripteral , and is sup- posed to have had fourteen columns on the sides . The general intercolumniation was seven feet and a half , and ...
... five feet three inches in diameter , and belongs to the peristyle . The temple was hexastyle and peripteral , and is sup- posed to have had fourteen columns on the sides . The general intercolumniation was seven feet and a half , and ...
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adorned afterward Alexander ancient antiquity appears aqueducts Arabs arches architecture army Augustus Aurelian baths beautiful brick building built Cæsar called capital celebrated chariots columns Ctesiphon death desert destroyed Diodorus edifices Edom Egypt Egyptian emperor empire entire entrance erected Euphrates excavated feet high Forum four fragments gates glory gold granite Greece Greeks Hadrian height Herodotus honour horses hundred immense inhabitants inscriptions Julius Cæsar Jupiter king length magnificent marble Megara ments miles Milesians Miletus monuments Nineveh obelisks once ornaments paintings palace Palmyra passed Pausanias peristyle Persians Petra pillars plain Pompeii portico preserved reign remains rich river rock Roman Rome round ruins Saguntum Sardis says sculpture senate sepulchres side Sidon spot standing statues stone stood Strabo supposed temple theatre Thebes thou thousand Tiber tion tomb Totila town Trajan traveller vast victory Wady Mousa walls whole Zenobia
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42. oldal - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown . For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...
261. oldal - Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
260. oldal - And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
36. oldal - Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water. But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God : yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
256. oldal - SEE the wild waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad sepulchre appears ! With nodding arches, broken temples spread, The very tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
149. oldal - And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them ; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau ; for the Lord hath spoken it.
149. oldal - But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it : and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
356. oldal - And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD : it shall not be treasured nor laid up ; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
213. oldal - There is a stern round tower of other days, Firm as a fortress, with its fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland of eternity, where wave The green leaves over all by time o'erthrown ; — What was this tower of strength ? within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd, so hid ? — A woman's grave.
41. oldal - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.