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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... illustrating Xenophon's Anabasis , has given the Peninsula its due dimensions ; D'Anville I. SECT . rendered it equally important in a political had lessened its breadth by a whole degree of latitude . ALEXANDER'S CONQUESTS . 11.
... illustrating Xenophon's Anabasis , has given the Peninsula its due dimensions ; D'Anville I. SECT . rendered it equally important in a political had lessened its breadth by a whole degree of latitude . ALEXANDER'S CONQUESTS . 11.
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John Gillies. I. SECT . rendered it equally important in a political and military point of view . It had been long famed for its arts and opulence and its prosperity cannot be suspected of decline under Alexander and his successors , if ...
John Gillies. I. SECT . rendered it equally important in a political and military point of view . It had been long famed for its arts and opulence and its prosperity cannot be suspected of decline under Alexander and his successors , if ...
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... equally culpable . Having proclaimed a festival to Bacchus , Philoxenus appointed the richest citizens to bear their several parts in the solemnity . To avoid the irksomeness of this tedious ceremony , the Carians purchased exemptions ...
... equally culpable . Having proclaimed a festival to Bacchus , Philoxenus appointed the richest citizens to bear their several parts in the solemnity . To avoid the irksomeness of this tedious ceremony , the Carians purchased exemptions ...
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... equally characteristic , but Scythians . uniformly expressive of grossness and ignorance , Destitute of temples for their gods , and of fixed habitations for themselves , they roved with their flocks , and herds , and tents , over the ...
... equally characteristic , but Scythians . uniformly expressive of grossness and ignorance , Destitute of temples for their gods , and of fixed habitations for themselves , they roved with their flocks , and herds , and tents , over the ...
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... equally the creatures of fancy , a more skilful interpret- ation of the record might rightly substitute the annual vicissitudes of the Euphrates or the Nile , the periodic motions of the heavenly luminaries , the operations and ...
... equally the creatures of fancy , a more skilful interpret- ation of the record might rightly substitute the annual vicissitudes of the Euphrates or the Nile , the periodic motions of the heavenly luminaries , the operations and ...
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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.