The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians, Band 2G. Long, 1830 |
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... merit , a simplicity and sincerity peculiar to the genius of those ancient times , and extremely remote from the pride and vanity of ours . One of the first cares of Darius , when he was settled on the throne , was to regulate the state ...
... merit , a simplicity and sincerity peculiar to the genius of those ancient times , and extremely remote from the pride and vanity of ours . One of the first cares of Darius , when he was settled on the throne , was to regulate the state ...
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... merit to come and settle among them . The Crotonians from this time had the reputation of having the ablest physicians ; and next after them , the people of Cyrene in Africa . The Argives were at the same time reputed to excel in music ...
... merit to come and settle among them . The Crotonians from this time had the reputation of having the ablest physicians ; and next after them , the people of Cyrene in Africa . The Argives were at the same time reputed to excel in music ...
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... merit to reside in his dominions , and for attaching them to his person . To pretend to do this by authority and compulsion , is the sure way of suppressing all knowledge and industry , and of driving away the liberal arts and sciences ...
... merit to reside in his dominions , and for attaching them to his person . To pretend to do this by authority and compulsion , is the sure way of suppressing all knowledge and industry , and of driving away the liberal arts and sciences ...
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... merit and all virtue . It is pretty obvious that I mean the famous edict published by this prince against Haman , in favour of the Jews , at the request of Esther , whom the king had taken to his bed in the room of Vashti , one of his ...
... merit and all virtue . It is pretty obvious that I mean the famous edict published by this prince against Haman , in favour of the Jews , at the request of Esther , whom the king had taken to his bed in the room of Vashti , one of his ...
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... merit , or his capacity as a general . Upon his arrival in Macedonia , into which he had marched with his land- forces , after having passed through Thrace , the whole country , terrified by his power , submitted . But his fleet ...
... merit , or his capacity as a general . Upon his arrival in Macedonia , into which he had marched with his land- forces , after having passed through Thrace , the whole country , terrified by his power , submitted . But his fleet ...
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Seite 110 - And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself : and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a floXxl, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Seite 109 - Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.
Seite 316 - ... nature they be; and against too little regard for the soul, which ought to be the object of their affection. For I incessantly urge to you, that virtue does not proceed from riches; but, on the contrary, riches from virtue; and that all the other goods of human life, as well public as private, have their source in the same principle.
Seite 85 - Themistocles taking him aside, told him that the design he had conceived, was to burn the fleet belonging to the rest of the Grecian states which then lay in a neighbouring port, when Athens would assuredly become mistress of all Greece.
Seite 110 - And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week : and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease...
Seite 317 - Delium, the fear of death should at this time make me abandon that in which the Divine Providence has placed me, by commanding me to pass my life in the study of philosophy, for the instruction of myself and others, this would be a most criminal desertion indeed, and make me highly worthy of being cited before this tribunal as an impious man, who does not believe the gods. " Should you resolve to acquit me ; for the future, I should not hesitate to make answer, Atheaians, I honour and love you; but...
Seite 317 - I should have been amongst the dead long ago, had I been concerned in the measures of the state, without effecting any thing to the advantage of myself or our country. Do not take it ill, I beseech you, if I speak my thoughts without disguise, and with truth and freedom. Every man who would generously oppose a whole people, either amongst us or elsewhere, and who inflexibly applies himself to prevent...
Seite 325 - Soon after which, he breathed his last. Crito went to his body, and closed his mouth and eyes. Such was the end of Socrates, in the first year of the ninety-fifth Olympiad, and the seventieth of his age.
Seite 115 - Lacedaemonians sent a second time to desire succours of the Athenians against the Messenians and Helots, who had seized upon Ithome. But when they came, fearing their boldness and gallantry, of all that came to their assistance, they sent them only back, alleging they were designing innovations. The Athenians returned home, enraged at this usage, and vented their anger upon all those who were...
Seite 74 - Megarians, who were encamped upon a plain, suffered extremely by them ; and, in spite of all the vigour and resolution with which they defended themselves, they were upon the point of giving way, when a detachment of 300 Athenians, with some troops...