Things Not Generally Known: Curiosities of HistoryKent & Company, 1858 - 247 Seiten |
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... Alexander and Diogenes . The Story of Nineveh . How Babylon fell . Cæsar passing the Rubicon . Caligula and his Horse . Nero's Golden House . " The Tearless Battle . " Camillus and Wellington . How Dido founded Carthage . The Buskin and ...
... Alexander and Diogenes . The Story of Nineveh . How Babylon fell . Cæsar passing the Rubicon . Caligula and his Horse . Nero's Golden House . " The Tearless Battle . " Camillus and Wellington . How Dido founded Carthage . The Buskin and ...
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... Alexander . When Porus was brought before him , Alexander asked what he wished to be done for him . " That you should treat me as a king , " was the reply of Porus ; which so delighted Alexander , that he not only insured to him his ...
... Alexander . When Porus was brought before him , Alexander asked what he wished to be done for him . " That you should treat me as a king , " was the reply of Porus ; which so delighted Alexander , that he not only insured to him his ...
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Curiosities of History John Timbs. HOW ALEXANDER CUT THE GORDIAN KNOT , AND THUS WON AN EMPIRE . When Alexander halted with his troops at Gordium , 333 B.C. , there was preserved in the citadel a rude waggon , said by the legend to have ...
Curiosities of History John Timbs. HOW ALEXANDER CUT THE GORDIAN KNOT , AND THUS WON AN EMPIRE . When Alexander halted with his troops at Gordium , 333 B.C. , there was preserved in the citadel a rude waggon , said by the legend to have ...
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... Alexander himself was so impressed with the independent and self - sufficing character manifested , that he exclaimed , " If I were not Alexander , I would be Diogenes . " Seneca says : " That tumour of a man , the vain - glorious Alexander ...
... Alexander himself was so impressed with the independent and self - sufficing character manifested , that he exclaimed , " If I were not Alexander , I would be Diogenes . " Seneca says : " That tumour of a man , the vain - glorious Alexander ...
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... Alexander's campaigns allude to it , though he must have passed within a few miles of it , on his way to fight the battles of Arbela and Gugamela . Xenophon , in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand , probably did see its ruins ; though we ...
... Alexander's campaigns allude to it , though he must have passed within a few miles of it , on his way to fight the battles of Arbela and Gugamela . Xenophon , in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand , probably did see its ruins ; though we ...
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Seite 63 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Seite 174 - Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824, there set in a great flood upon that town ; the tide rose to an incredible height ; the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house, with mop and pattens, trundling her mop...
Seite 70 - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
Seite 3 - I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and which go in and out before the glory of the Holy One.
Seite 93 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Seite 174 - In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Parting-ton's spirit was up ; but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop, or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest. Gentlemen, be...
Seite 231 - The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask...
Seite 187 - We can do nothing without the blue stockings ; ' and thus by degrees the title was established.
Seite 208 - In the canons of a council at London, in 1102, we read : Let no one from henceforth presume to carry on that wicked traffic, by which men of England have hitherto been sold like brute animals.
Seite 185 - Would he oblige me? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind.