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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... side of the Mediterranean ; and the most renowned portion of the ancient continent running eastward of that sea ... sides of the Mediterranean . The former is a peninsula nearly equal to Ger- many in extent , and which , during many ages ...
... side of the Mediterranean ; and the most renowned portion of the ancient continent running eastward of that sea ... sides of the Mediterranean . The former is a peninsula nearly equal to Ger- many in extent , and which , during many ages ...
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... side of Zagros , even to India , the ancient Ariana , or and general name of Ariana “ , a name easily Persia , its divisions . recognizable in the Eriene or Iran of Oriental But , in consequence of the ascen- dancy acquired , lost ...
... side of Zagros , even to India , the ancient Ariana , or and general name of Ariana “ , a name easily Persia , its divisions . recognizable in the Eriene or Iran of Oriental But , in consequence of the ascen- dancy acquired , lost ...
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... side , this great armament pur- sued its triumphant course for the space of six hundred miles down the Indus to the ocean . Having accomplished this voyage , the least ser- viceable vessels were laid up in the Indian Delta , a district ...
... side , this great armament pur- sued its triumphant course for the space of six hundred miles down the Indus to the ocean . Having accomplished this voyage , the least ser- viceable vessels were laid up in the Indian Delta , a district ...
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... side of Sogdia and Bactria , as well as the more level routes through Saranga and Arachosia were guarded by chains of stations a day's journey from each other ; nothing was to be feared from the predatory tribes that had hitherto ...
... side of Sogdia and Bactria , as well as the more level routes through Saranga and Arachosia were guarded by chains of stations a day's journey from each other ; nothing was to be feared from the predatory tribes that had hitherto ...
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... sides by this desultory warfare , consented to acknow- ledge the Scythians for his masters by paying to them large ... side the Jordan , and which thenceforward received the name of Scythopolis . " On the frontiers of the Holy Land ...
... sides by this desultory warfare , consented to acknow- ledge the Scythians for his masters by paying to them large ... side the Jordan , and which thenceforward received the name of Scythopolis . " On the frontiers of the Holy Land ...
Términos y frases comunes
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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.