The History of Ancient Greece: Part the first. From the earliest accounts till the division of the Macedonian empire in the EastT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820 |
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... Capital of Assyria.- Jealousy of Necos King of Egypt . He gains the Battle of Megiddo . · Invades Mesopotamia , and garrisons Circesium . - Ne- buchadnezzar associated in Government with his Father Nebopolassar.He forms an Engine of ...
... Capital of Assyria.- Jealousy of Necos King of Egypt . He gains the Battle of Megiddo . · Invades Mesopotamia , and garrisons Circesium . - Ne- buchadnezzar associated in Government with his Father Nebopolassar.He forms an Engine of ...
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... capital of Carmania , and situate in a comparatively f tile district . Voyage en Persé , p.107 . et seq . It appears from his distances to have stood near the borders of Saranga . The country of the Saranguei is now included in Seistan ...
... capital of Carmania , and situate in a comparatively f tile district . Voyage en Persé , p.107 . et seq . It appears from his distances to have stood near the borders of Saranga . The country of the Saranguei is now included in Seistan ...
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... capital Alexandria , then rising in its neighbourhood . Persons interested in the prosperity of Canopus , offered him large bribes to suspend the alteration . He accepted the money , but found pretences soon after for carry- ing his ...
... capital Alexandria , then rising in its neighbourhood . Persons interested in the prosperity of Canopus , offered him large bribes to suspend the alteration . He accepted the money , but found pretences soon after for carry- ing his ...
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... capital in which there were upwards of six score thousand per- sons , incapable of discerning between their right hand and their left . 61 Is it yet possible to give an account of what happened in Babylonia in the interval of the ...
... capital in which there were upwards of six score thousand per- sons , incapable of discerning between their right hand and their left . 61 Is it yet possible to give an account of what happened in Babylonia in the interval of the ...
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... capital ; and 3. concerning the time and circumstances of its decline and downfall . In my endeavour to illustrate this very extensive subject , ( for the history of Arabia and Ethiopia will be found essentially connected with that of ...
... capital ; and 3. concerning the time and circumstances of its decline and downfall . In my endeavour to illustrate this very extensive subject , ( for the history of Arabia and Ethiopia will be found essentially connected with that of ...
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Africa Alexander Alexander's ancient Anti Antigonus Antipater antiquity apud Arabian Argyraspides Aristot arms army Arrhidæus Arrian arts Asander Asiatic Assyrian Athenians Babylon Babylonian Bactra battle called capital Cassander cavalry centuries Chaldæans CHAP chiefly Christian æra coast command commerce Conf conqueror conquests Craterus Curtius Cyrené death Demetrius desert Diodorus district division dominion East eastern Egypt Egyptians empire enemy Ethiopia Eumenes Euphrates Euridicé expedition fleet formed Grecian Greece Greeks Herodot historians horse hundred ibid Indus infantry inhabitants king kingdom Leonnatus Lesser Asia Macedon Macedonian master Medes Media ment Meroë miles mountains nations neighbouring Nile Nineveh Ninus Olymp peninsula Perdiccas Peucestes phalanx Phocion Phoenicians Phrygia Plutarch Plutarch in Eumen Polysperchon priests prince provinces Ptolemy Python reign river royal satrap Scythians SECT Seleucus Strabo success Syria temple Thebes thousand Tigris tion troops Tyre ubi supra vast victory Xenoph xviii
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Página 73 - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Página 177 - 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 106 - Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Página 89 - The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.
Página 113 - And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
Página 105 - Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
Página 225 - affirmed that, in sailing round Africa, they had the sun on their right hand, which to me appears not to be credible, though it may be deemed so by others.
Página 236 - The king spake and said — is not this great Babylon which I have built? for the house of the kingdom, by the might of my power and for the honour of my majesty.
Página 240 - They facilitated the intercourse of peace and commerce, and, as the dams could be speedily broke down, they armed the despair of the Assyrians with the means of opposing a sudden deluge to the progress of an invading army. To the soil and climate of Assyria nature had denied some of her choicest gifts — the vine, the olive, and the fig-tree...
Página 241 - Its precious manufactures under its hereditary sacerdotal government remounted, as we have seen, to immemorial antiquity. 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.