The History of the World,: From the Reign of Alexander to that of Augustus, Comprehending the Latter Ages of European Greece, and the History of the Greek Kingdoms in Asia and Africa, from Their Foundation to Their Destruction; with a Preliminary Survey of Alexander's Conquests, and an Estimate of His Plans for Their Consolidation and Improvement, Volumen1Hopkins and Earle, Philadelphia; Farrand, Mallory and Company Boston; and J.W. Campbell, Petersburg, Virginia., 1809 - 483 páginas |
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... nearly a similar occasion * , who they were , those ancient and once illustrious nations subdued and long governed by the Greeks and Macedonians : in what characteristic particulars they either agreed with , or differed from each other ...
... nearly a similar occasion * , who they were , those ancient and once illustrious nations subdued and long governed by the Greeks and Macedonians : in what characteristic particulars they either agreed with , or differed from each other ...
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... nearly eight - pence daily . The captain had only twice the pay of the rank and file , and the general only twice the pay of a cap- tain . Xenoph . de Exped . Cyri , 1. vii . p . 403. edit . Leuncl . According to these data , and making ...
... nearly eight - pence daily . The captain had only twice the pay of the rank and file , and the general only twice the pay of a cap- tain . Xenoph . de Exped . Cyri , 1. vii . p . 403. edit . Leuncl . According to these data , and making ...
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... nearly commensurate with its entire expanse of water both in magnitude and in climate . Alexan- der's conquests will thus be found to have extended forty - five degrees of longitude over the fairest portion of the temperate zone : their ...
... nearly commensurate with its entire expanse of water both in magnitude and in climate . Alexan- der's conquests will thus be found to have extended forty - five degrees of longitude over the fairest portion of the temperate zone : their ...
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... nearly 30 the same extensive sway to the Indus over Media ; Persis , the proper Persia ; Bactria , or Bactriana , and all the inferior provinces of the East . In point of habits and manners , Zagros formed a boundary not less palpable ...
... nearly 30 the same extensive sway to the Indus over Media ; Persis , the proper Persia ; Bactria , or Bactriana , and all the inferior provinces of the East . In point of habits and manners , Zagros formed a boundary not less palpable ...
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... nearly opposite to Rhodes , they hold under the general name of Tau- rus , a direction parallel to the Mediterranean , and thus divide Lesser Asia into two unequal parts , by separating the southern and rugged districts of Lycia ...
... nearly opposite to Rhodes , they hold under the general name of Tau- rus , a direction parallel to the Mediterranean , and thus divide Lesser Asia into two unequal parts , by separating the southern and rugged districts of Lycia ...
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Alexander Alexander's Alexandria amidst ancient Antigonus Antipater antiquity apud Argyraspides arms army Arrian arts Asiatic Assyrian Athenians Athens Babylon Babylonia battle called capital Caria Cassander cavalry CHAP chiefly coast command commerce Conf conqueror conquests Craterus Cyrene Cyreneans death defeated Demetrius desert Diodor district dominion East eastern Egypt Egyptian empire enemy Eumenes Euphrates Euridice expedition fleet formed garrisons Grecian Greece Greeks gulph harbours Herodot historians honour horse hundred ibid Indus infantry inhabitants king kingdom Leonnatus Lesser Asia Lysimachus Macedon Macedonian master Medes ment miles mountains nations neighbouring Nile Nineveh Olymp peninsula Perdiccas Persian Peucestes Phocion Phoenicians Phrygia Plin Plutarch Plutarch in Demet Polysperchon priests prince provinces Ptolemy Python reign Rhodians river royal satrap Scythians SECT Seleucus Strabo success successors Syria temple Thebes thousand Thrace Tigris tion troops Tyre ubi supra vast victory VIII whole Xenoph xviii
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Página 123 - Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Página 123 - Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar ? 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
Página 482 - Yet the designs, as well as actions ascribed to him, confirm his character in history, as an indefatigable64 and just prince, a firm friend, an affectionate father, an indulgent master ; who gained the love of his eastern subjects by governing them according to their inveterate principles and habits; and who, among all contemporary sovereigns, was preeminent in consistent greatness of conduct, flowing from true royalty of soul'8.
Página iii - The history of the world, from the reign of Alexander to that of Augustus...
Página 169 - The Babylonians continued thenceforward to be clothed with the produce of their own industry. Their bodies were covered with fine linen, descending to their feet : their mitras or turbans were also of linen, plaited with much art ; they wore woollen tunicks, above which a short white cloak repelled the rays of the sun.
Página 169 - The looms of Babylon, and of the neighbouring Borsippa, a town owing its prosperity to manufactures wholly, supplied to all countries round, the finest veils or hangings, and every article of dress or furniture composed of cotton, of linen, or of wool.