The History of Ancient Greece: Its Colonies and Conquests; from the Earliest Accounts Till the Division of the Macedonian Empire in the East. Including the History of Literature, Philosophy, and the Fine Arts, Volúmenes5-6T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820 |
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... Xenophon's Anabasis , has given the Peninsula its due dimensions ; D'Anville had lessened its breadth by a whole degree of latitude . SECT . rendered it equally important in a political and ALEXANDER'S CONQUESTS . 11.
... Xenophon's Anabasis , has given the Peninsula its due dimensions ; D'Anville had lessened its breadth by a whole degree of latitude . SECT . rendered it equally important in a political and ALEXANDER'S CONQUESTS . 11.
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... equally important in a political and I. 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 , after many merciless de ...
... equally important in a political and I. 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 , after many merciless de ...
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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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... equally stubborn and audacious 62 , should have neglected for sixteen hundred years , a territory well known , and fitted according to circum- stances , to smile the sweetest of plains , or frown the most frightful of deserts . 64 To ...
... equally stubborn and audacious 62 , should have neglected for sixteen hundred years , a territory well known , and fitted according to circum- stances , to smile the sweetest of plains , or frown the most frightful of deserts . 64 To ...
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... equally unnoticed by Alexander , of all men the most observant and most curious , who crossed the Tigris in that neighbourhood in his way to Arbela . The error of placing the capital of the Assyrian empire in Atur , on the eastern side ...
... equally unnoticed by Alexander , of all men the most observant and most curious , who crossed the Tigris in that neighbourhood in his way to Arbela . The error of placing the capital of the Assyrian empire in Atur , on the eastern side ...
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Página 69 - 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 102 - 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 171 - 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 85 - 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 109 - 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 304 - His first law, that the planets do not move in circles but in ellipses; his second law, that they describe equal spaces in equal times ; his third law, that the squares of their periodic times are proportional to the cubes of their distances. That man gave us the key to the heavens.
Página 219 - 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 322 - the word of God of none effect through their traditions (d).
Página 206 - RA'MA, if fuch a monarch ever exifted, had civilized ? However that may be, the large breed of Indian Apes is at this moment held in high veneration by the Hindus, and fed with devotion by the...
Página 230 - 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.