The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians, Volumen6G.G. and J. Robinson; W. Richardson and Company; H. Gardner; W. Otridge and Son; R. Baldwin ... [and 16 others]. By Darton and Harvey, 1800 |
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... covered Darius with wounds , who expires a few moments before Alexander's arrival . He fends his corpfe to Syfigambis XI . Vices which firft caufed the declenfion , and at laft the ruin of the Perfian empire XII . Lacedæmonia revolts ...
... covered Darius with wounds , who expires a few moments before Alexander's arrival . He fends his corpfe to Syfigambis XI . Vices which firft caufed the declenfion , and at laft the ruin of the Perfian empire XII . Lacedæmonia revolts ...
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... covered with duft , and regardless of effences and perfumes , or- dered that this box fhould be employed to no other use than to hold Homer's poems , which he believed the moft perfect , the most precious production of the human mind ...
... covered with duft , and regardless of effences and perfumes , or- dered that this box fhould be employed to no other use than to hold Homer's poems , which he believed the moft perfect , the most precious production of the human mind ...
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... covered with fweat and dirt , ar- riving on its banks , had a mind to bathe in that river , invited * Quintus Curtius fuppofes it to be fo called from Cyrus the Great , and Arrian from the Younger Cyrus , which opinion appears the most ...
... covered with fweat and dirt , ar- riving on its banks , had a mind to bathe in that river , invited * Quintus Curtius fuppofes it to be fo called from Cyrus the Great , and Arrian from the Younger Cyrus , which opinion appears the most ...
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... covered with precious ftones . Thirty paces from them , followed thofe called the king's coufins or * relations , to the number of fifteen thousand , in habits very much resembling those of women , and more remarkable for the vain pomp ...
... covered with precious ftones . Thirty paces from them , followed thofe called the king's coufins or * relations , to the number of fifteen thousand , in habits very much resembling those of women , and more remarkable for the vain pomp ...
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... covered the horfe of his right wing with the light horfe of Protoma- chus and the Paonians , and his foot with the bowmen of Antiochus , He referved the Agrian's ( commanded by Attalus ) who were greatly efteemed , and fome forces that ...
... covered the horfe of his right wing with the light horfe of Protoma- chus and the Paonians , and his foot with the bowmen of Antiochus , He referved the Agrian's ( commanded by Attalus ) who were greatly efteemed , and fome forces that ...
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Página 103 - And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground : and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
Página 103 - And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns : and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him : and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.
Página 103 - I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great.
Página 186 - To our friends we give corn, which we procure by the labour of our oxen ; with them we offer wine to the gods in our cup ; and with regard to our enemies, we combat them at a distance with our arrows, and near at hand with our javelins.
Página 229 - ... part of his foot, did not behave like the great Darius, who, in a like disaster, was the first that fled ; on the contrary, he continued in the field, as long as one battalion or squadron stood their ground ; but at last, having received a wound in the shoulder, he retired upon his elephant ; and was easily distinguished from the rest by the greatness of his...
Página 83 - The courage of the combatants increased with the danger; and each side, animated by the most powerful motives, fought like lions. Wherever the battering-rams had beat down any part of the wall, and the bridges were thrown out, instantly the Argyraspides mounted the breach with the utmost valour, being headed by Admetus, one of the bravest officers in the army, who was killed by the thrust of a partisan * as he was encouraging his soldiers.
Página 91 - The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
Página 103 - And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai.
Página 103 - Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns ; and the two horns were high ; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
Página 186 - And that thou mayest be sensible what kind of people the Scythians are, know, that we received from heaven, as a rich present, a yoke of oxen, a ploughshare, a dart, a javelin, and a cup.