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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15. oldal
... death of Abel , Adam and Eve had many other children , the eldest of the sons was named Seth , and his descendants , from their piety , were styled " the children of God , " in opposition to the descendants of Cain , who were styled ...
... death of Abel , Adam and Eve had many other children , the eldest of the sons was named Seth , and his descendants , from their piety , were styled " the children of God , " in opposition to the descendants of Cain , who were styled ...
25. oldal
... death . He appears to have been deservedly popular , by his abilities and wisdom . He built the town of Memphis , as is generally supposed . If he was the same as Misraim , mentioned in scripture , as some assert , he was one of the ...
... death . He appears to have been deservedly popular , by his abilities and wisdom . He built the town of Memphis , as is generally supposed . If he was the same as Misraim , mentioned in scripture , as some assert , he was one of the ...
64. oldal
... death , " because , " said Draco , " small crimes deserve death , and I have no greater punishment for the greatest sins , ” - plan ill adapted to the state of human society . Solon was one of the seven wise men of Greece 64 ANCIENT ...
... death , " because , " said Draco , " small crimes deserve death , and I have no greater punishment for the greatest sins , ” - plan ill adapted to the state of human society . Solon was one of the seven wise men of Greece 64 ANCIENT ...
76. oldal
... death , and afterwards the sen- tence of death was changed to the paying of a fine . Greece , particularly Athens , abounded with great men about this time . A little tale or two concerning Themistocles may be interest- ing here . At a ...
... death , and afterwards the sen- tence of death was changed to the paying of a fine . Greece , particularly Athens , abounded with great men about this time . A little tale or two concerning Themistocles may be interest- ing here . At a ...
82. oldal
... death , by its coldness , was administered to the philosopher . He continued calmly conversing with his friends , to the last moment of his life . 8. In the same year with the death of Socrates , occurred the celebrated retreat of ...
... death , by its coldness , was administered to the philosopher . He continued calmly conversing with his friends , to the last moment of his life . 8. In the same year with the death of Socrates , occurred the celebrated retreat of ...
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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.