Historical and miscellaneous questionsD. Appleton & Company, 1859 - 396 oldal |
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... writers ; Athanasius and Apollinarius , also , flourished then , and Ossian , the celebrated northern poet . What were the remarkable events in the fifth century Rome was plundered by Alaric , king of the Goths ; France erected into a ...
... writers ; Athanasius and Apollinarius , also , flourished then , and Ossian , the celebrated northern poet . What were the remarkable events in the fifth century Rome was plundered by Alaric , king of the Goths ; France erected into a ...
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... 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 Reformation was begun in Germany by spread through England ...
... 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 Reformation was begun in Germany by spread through England ...
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... writer and practitioner . What were the chief events in the beginning of the eighteenth century ? Peter of Russia , and Charles XII . of Sweden , distinguished themselves by their military ex- ploits ; the victorious general of Queen ...
... writer and practitioner . What were the chief events in the beginning of the eighteenth century ? Peter of Russia , and Charles XII . of Sweden , distinguished themselves by their military ex- ploits ; the victorious general of Queen ...
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... writers were Cicero , Livy , Virgil , Horace , Ovid , and Varro : Vitruvius , the Roman architect , lived in that period . Which were the best Roman Emperors ? Augustus , Vespasian , Titus , Nerva , Trajan , Adrian , Antoninus , Marcus ...
... writers were Cicero , Livy , Virgil , Horace , Ovid , and Varro : Vitruvius , the Roman architect , lived in that period . Which were the best Roman Emperors ? Augustus , Vespasian , Titus , Nerva , Trajan , Adrian , Antoninus , Marcus ...
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... writer upon moral philosophy . What great men flourished in the reign of Nero ? Seneca ; Lucan , the poet ; Persius , the satirist ; Epictetus , the moralist ; and Petronius Arbiter , a Roman writer , whose opinions were openly ...
... writer upon moral philosophy . What great men flourished in the reign of Nero ? Seneca ; Lucan , the poet ; Persius , the satirist ; Epictetus , the moralist ; and Petronius Arbiter , a Roman writer , whose opinions were openly ...
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302. 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.
544. oldal - Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear ; for our God is a consuming fire.
522. 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.
525. oldal - ... that it was much better to fall into the hands of God, than into those of his enemies.
521. 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.
504. 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.
322. 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.
545. oldal - Maunder's Biographical Treasury; consisting of Memoirs, Sketches, and brief Notices of above 12,000 Eminent Persons of All Ages and Nations, from the Earliest Period of History: Forming a new and complete Dictionary of Universal Biography.
517. oldal - Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
528. oldal - O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD ; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name ; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.