The Third Book of History, Containing Ancient History in Connection with Ancient Geography: Designed as a Sequel to the First and Second Books of History

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Hickling, Swan and Brewer, 1858

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Página 68 - ... of Tiberius Gracchus in the capitol. Here, as a clamour was raised by the clients of the great on one side, and by the favourers of the law on the other, Tiberius found his speech entirely interrupted, and begged in vain to be attended to ; till, at last, raising his hand to his head, to intimate that his life was in danger, the partizans of the senate gave out that he wanted a diadem. In consequence of this, an universal uproar spread itself through all ranks of people ; the corrupt part of...
Página 91 - Seneca says of him, namely, that nature seemed to have brought him forth, to show what was possible to be produced from the greatest vice, supported by the greatest authority.
Página 165 - Asphaltites, the lavas and pumice thrown out on its banks, and the warm baths of Tabarieh, show that this valley has been the theatre of a fire not yet extinguished. Volumes of smoke are often observed to escape from Lake Asphaltites, and new crevices are found on its margin.
Página 166 - Viedaber,' which we call Numbers.f By the reckoning which Moses and Aaron made of the people in the desert, we find, in counting « Exodus xii. 37, 38. + Numbers i. all the tribes except that of Levi, six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty men capable of bearing arms; and if we add the tribe of Levi, supposing it equal in number to the others, the strong with the weak, we shall have six hundred and fifty-three thousand nine hundred and thirty-five men, to which we must add an equal...
Página 63 - The Romans, being thus in friendship with all nations, had an opportunity of turning to the arts of peace : they now began to have a relish for poetry, the first liberal art which rises in every civilized nation, and the first also that decays.
Página 34 - Mummius entering the city, gave it up to be pillaged, put the men to the sword, and sold the women and children for slaves.
Página 27 - But hu was stopped in the midst of his warlike preparations, being stabbed by Pausanias as he entered the theatre at the celebration of the nuptials of his daughter Cleopatra. This murder has given...
Página 110 - Such was the end of this great empire, that had conquered mankind with its arms and instructed the world with its wisdom ; that had risen by temperance, and that fell by luxury ; that had been established by a spirit of patriotism, and that sunk into ruin when the empire was become so extensive that a Roman citizen was but an empty name. Its final dissolution happened about...
Página 19 - ... 447, were made the price of peace. By the cession of what it would have been impossible to retain, Athens purchased for herself a long term of rest, during which she might hope to recruit her strength and prepare herself to make another struggle for the supremacy. The struggle which now commenced is known by the name of the " Peloponnesian War." It lasted twenty-seven years, from BC 431 to 404, and extended itself over almost the whole of the Grecian world, involving almost every state from Selinus...
Página 171 - Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry. And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.

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