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21. oldal
... army towards Nineveh , and defeated Sardanapalus in battle , and reduced him to such despair , that he retired to his palace , where , having erected a great funeral pile , he burnt himself and all his effects to an incredible amount ...
... army towards Nineveh , and defeated Sardanapalus in battle , and reduced him to such despair , that he retired to his palace , where , having erected a great funeral pile , he burnt himself and all his effects to an incredible amount ...
38. oldal
... army were rewarded each according to his merit . 33. From the success of this engagement , the Greeks were delivered , not only from the present , but also from all future invasions of the Persians , who never afterwards appeared on ...
... army were rewarded each according to his merit . 33. From the success of this engagement , the Greeks were delivered , not only from the present , but also from all future invasions of the Persians , who never afterwards appeared on ...
39. oldal
... army of 113,000 men , including 13,000 Greek mercenaries ; and on arriving in the plains of Curaxa , in Babylonia , he there met Artaxerxes with an army of 900,000 men . 39. A dreadful battle ensued , and Cyrus was slain by the hands of ...
... army of 113,000 men , including 13,000 Greek mercenaries ; and on arriving in the plains of Curaxa , in Babylonia , he there met Artaxerxes with an army of 900,000 men . 39. A dreadful battle ensued , and Cyrus was slain by the hands of ...
40. oldal
... army , requested that one of them might be left to comfort him in his old age : Darius said he would leave them all , and immediately ordered them to be slain . In like manner did Xerxes behave to another Persian nobleman.— ( Herodotus ...
... army , requested that one of them might be left to comfort him in his old age : Darius said he would leave them all , and immediately ordered them to be slain . In like manner did Xerxes behave to another Persian nobleman.— ( Herodotus ...
41. oldal
... army ? 36. Who was Artaxerxes ? To whom married ? 37-40 . What events led to the retreat of the Ten Thousand ? and to what did this ultimately lead ? 41. In whose reign , and by whom , was the Persian empire overthrown ? 42. What ...
... army ? 36. Who was Artaxerxes ? To whom married ? 37-40 . What events led to the retreat of the Ten Thousand ? and to what did this ultimately lead ? 41. In whose reign , and by whom , was the Persian empire overthrown ? 42. What ...
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385. 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.
164. oldal - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
163. 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.
164. oldal - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night...
18. oldal - From that time, like everything else which falls into the hands of the Mussulman, it has been going to ruin, and the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope gave the deathblow to its commercial greatness.
13. oldal - And Cush begat Nimrod : he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
171. oldal - And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles. 3 And the children of Israel...
390. oldal - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
382. oldal - He trod an open but unfrequented path to immortality, in the ardent and unremitted exercise of Christian charity. May this tribute to his fame excite an emulation of his truly glorious achievements.
111. oldal - Around his waist he wore a golden girdle, after the manner of women, whence his scimitar hung, the scabbard of which flamed all over with gems ; on his head he wore a tiara, or mitre, round which was a fillet of blue mixed with white.