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... four years , and some- times longer , and the age of this water is with them an in- crease of its value , as the age of wine is elsewhere . - Aristides Orat . Egyptiac . Modern writers and travellers are agreed about the excel- lence of ...
... four years , and some- times longer , and the age of this water is with them an in- crease of its value , as the age of wine is elsewhere . - Aristides Orat . Egyptiac . Modern writers and travellers are agreed about the excel- lence of ...
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... four years , died before Cambyses had advanced to Egypt , and during the whole enjoyment of his power he experienced no extraordinary calamity . At his death his body was embalmed , and deposited in a sepulchre which he had erected for ...
... four years , died before Cambyses had advanced to Egypt , and during the whole enjoyment of his power he experienced no extraordinary calamity . At his death his body was embalmed , and deposited in a sepulchre which he had erected for ...
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... four feet with the roasted flesh of all kinds of animals , which was carried there in the night , under the inspection of the magistrates ; during the day , whoever pleased was at liberty to go and satisfy his hunger . The natives of ...
... four feet with the roasted flesh of all kinds of animals , which was carried there in the night , under the inspection of the magistrates ; during the day , whoever pleased was at liberty to go and satisfy his hunger . The natives of ...
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... four out of the seven . When Otanes saw his desire to 1 It is probable that the ascendant of one man over multi- tudes began during a state of war , where the superiority of courage and of genius discovers itself most visibly , where ...
... four out of the seven . When Otanes saw his desire to 1 It is probable that the ascendant of one man over multi- tudes began during a state of war , where the superiority of courage and of genius discovers itself most visibly , where ...
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... four or five hundred miles , disappear be- fore the conqueror : the secret waters of the desert elude his search ; and his victorious troops are consumed with hunger , thirst , and fatigue , in the pursuit of an invisible foe , who ...
... four or five hundred miles , disappear be- fore the conqueror : the secret waters of the desert elude his search ; and his victorious troops are consumed with hunger , thirst , and fatigue , in the pursuit of an invisible foe , who ...
Términos y frases comunes
accordingly affirm afterwards Amasis amongst ancient animal appears Arabian Arcesilaus Aristagoras army arrived Artaphernes Asia Athenians Athens authority Battus body brother Budini called Cambyses camels Cleomenes Clisthenes commanded countrymen Crotona custom Cyrene Cyreneans Cyrus Darius daughter death deity Democedes desert divine earth Egypt Egyptians enemy engaged Ethiopians expedition father Geloni Gobryas gold Greece Greeks happened Hellespont Hercules Herodotus Histiæus honor horse hundred inhabitants intirely Ionians island Issedones Ister Jupiter king knowlege Lacedæmonians Larcher Libya Mæandrius magus manner Megabyzus Milesians Miletus nations never nians observed occasion Onesilus oracle Otanes Pæonians passage passed Periander Persians person Phoenicians Pliny Polycrates possessed present Prexaspes prince Pythian received remarkable replied resemblance river sacred sailed Samians Samos Sardis says Scythians sent Smerdis soon Sparta stadia Susa Syloson talents temple Thera thing Thrace tion took tribes vessels whilst wives women
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Página 12 - ... hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely : touch me with noble anger ! And let not women's weapons, water-drops, Stain my man's cheeks !— No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things — What they are yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep ; No, I'll not weep : — • I have full cause of weeping ; but this heart Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws,...
Página 12 - If it be you that stir these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger, And let not women's weapons, water-drops, Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both That all the world shall — I will do such things. — What they are yet I know not, — but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You think...
Página 36 - Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man her slave oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom pleased to bless : Still various, and unconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes a lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes...
Página 18 - And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ear-ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold...
Página 244 - It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. 23 And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory : and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Página 149 - Lybia, and planted some corn in the place where they happened to find themselves. When this was ripe, and they had cut it down, they again departed. " Having thus consumed two years, they in the third doubled the columns of Hercules and returned to Egypt. Their relation may obtain attention from others, but to me it seems incredible ; for they affirm that, having sailed round Lybia, they had the sun on their right hand.
Página 18 - And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold beside ornaments and collars and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian and beside the chains that were about their camels
Página 128 - When lo ! we reach'd old Ocean's utmost bounds, Where rocks control his waves with ever-during mounds. There in a lonely land, and gloomy cells, The dusky nation of Cimmeria dwells; The sun ne'er views th' uncomfortable seats, When radiant he advances or retreats: Unhappy race!
Página 4 - This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine ; Or find some other way to generate Mankind ? This mischief had not then befall'n, And more that shall befall ; innumerable Disturbances on Earth through female snares, And straight conjunction with this sex...
Página 235 - And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.