Outlines of Ancient and Modern History on a New Plan: Embracing Biographical Notices of Illustrious Persons, and General Views of the Geography, Population, Politics, Religion, Military and Naval Affairs, Arts, Literature, Manners, Customs, and Society, of Ancient and Modern Nations. : Accompanied by a Series of Questions, and Illustrated with EngravingsBelknap and Hamersley, 1849 |
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8. oldal
... century B. C. Inscriptions on marble may be mentioned as another source of history . The Arundelian marbles , so called from the earl of Arundel , who brought them from Greece into England , are the most celebrated collection of marbles ...
... century B. C. Inscriptions on marble may be mentioned as another source of history . The Arundelian marbles , so called from the earl of Arundel , who brought them from Greece into England , are the most celebrated collection of marbles ...
23. oldal
... centuries , and were successively united under one yoke . These four kingdoms are known by the names of Thebes , Thin , Memphis , and Tanais . The people had attained to considerable civilization , but a period of barbarism soon after ...
... centuries , and were successively united under one yoke . These four kingdoms are known by the names of Thebes , Thin , Memphis , and Tanais . The people had attained to considerable civilization , but a period of barbarism soon after ...
24. oldal
... centuries . In the time of Menes , the greatest part of the country was a mo- rass , till he diverted the course of the Nile , and founded the city of Memphis within the ancient bed of that river . He instructed the Egyptians in ...
... centuries . In the time of Menes , the greatest part of the country was a mo- rass , till he diverted the course of the Nile , and founded the city of Memphis within the ancient bed of that river . He instructed the Egyptians in ...
31. oldal
... centuries , previous to the time of Cecrops . Athens , from its founder , first received the name of Cecropia , but afterwards that of Athenæ , in honour of Minerva , its tutelary deity . The Arundelian marbles , which were brought from ...
... centuries , previous to the time of Cecrops . Athens , from its founder , first received the name of Cecropia , but afterwards that of Athenæ , in honour of Minerva , its tutelary deity . The Arundelian marbles , which were brought from ...
42. oldal
... century , his de- scendants , called Heraclidæ , returned to Peloponnesus , and subduing all their enemies , took possession of the states of My- cenæ , Argos , and Lacedæmon . This return of the Heraclida is an event often spoken of in ...
... century , his de- scendants , called Heraclidæ , returned to Peloponnesus , and subduing all their enemies , took possession of the states of My- cenæ , Argos , and Lacedæmon . This return of the Heraclida is an event often spoken of in ...
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201. oldal - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
232. oldal - ... your attendance at this parliament. For God and man have concurred to punish the wickedness of this time. And think not slightly of this advertisement ; but retire yourself into your country, where you may expect the event in safety. For though there be no appearance of any stir, yet, I say, they will receive a terrible blow — this parliament, and yet they shall not see who hurts them.
15. oldal - And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
87. oldal - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
354. oldal - The fellows or monks of my time were decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder : their days were filled by a series of uniform employments ; the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber. .From the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their conscience...
270. oldal - Mr Boyle's writings shall I recommend ? All of them. To him we owe the secrets of fire, air, water, animals, vegetables, fossils : so that from his works may be deduced the whole system of natural knowledge.
342. oldal - ... are unauthorized by the Constitution of the United States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof, and are null, void, and no law, nor binding upon this State, its officers or citizens ; and all promises, contracts, and obligations made or entered into, or to be made or entered into with purpose to secure the duties imposed by the said acts, and all judicial proceedings which shall be hereafter had in affirmance thereof, are and shall be held utterly null and void.
216. oldal - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
197. oldal - Edward, insensible to pity, struck him on the face with his gauntlet; and the Dukes of Clarence and Gloucester, Lord Hastings, and Sir Thomas Gray, taking the blow as a signal for further violence, hurried the Prince into the next apartment and there despatched him with their daggers.
354. oldal - From the Provincial Letters of Pascal, which almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity.