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322. oldal - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
7. oldal - So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth : and they left off to build the city.
433. oldal - It is a saying worthy of the ferocious pride of Attila, that the grass never grew on the spot where his horse had trod.
14. oldal - But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him...
362. oldal - Romans, being thus in friendship with all nations, had an opportunity of turning to the arts of peace : they now began to have a relish for poetry, the first liberal art which rises in every civilized nation, and the first also that decays.
170. oldal - ... to quench the raging thirst, which consumed them. Their very temples were filled with dead bodies; and every part of the city exhibited a dreadful image of death, without the least remedy for the present, or the least hopes with regard to futurity.
398. oldal - All the conspirators now drew their swords, and surrounded him in such a manner, that whatever way he turned, he saw nothing but steel gleaming in his face, and met nothing but wounds.
237. oldal - Plato used to call him the Mind of the School, and to say, when he was absent,
435. oldal - Italy ; since, in their opinion, the majesty of a sole monarch is sufficient to pervade and protect, at the same time, both the east and the west. In their own name, and in the name of the people, they consent that the seat of universal empire shall be transferred from Rome to Constantinople...
23. oldal - Sesostris, king of kings and lord of lords, subdued this country by the power of his arms.

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