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... respect , and dignified by courtesy with the title of the Father of History , has been treated with some neglect by the English literati . While Thucydides and Xenophon have been naturalized among us , in correct and elegant ...
... respect , and dignified by courtesy with the title of the Father of History , has been treated with some neglect by the English literati . While Thucydides and Xenophon have been naturalized among us , in correct and elegant ...
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... respect , if , in professing to give a Life of Herodotus , I did not . immediately inform him that my materials were not only very dubious , but very scanty : such how- ever as they are , it would be no difficult task to imitate the ...
... respect , if , in professing to give a Life of Herodotus , I did not . immediately inform him that my materials were not only very dubious , but very scanty : such how- ever as they are , it would be no difficult task to imitate the ...
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... respects true ; but Theophrastus has sagaciously re- marked , according to Plutarch , that of all the senses the ear is that by which the passions may be most easily excited.- Larcher . Our veneration for the ancients , however , must ...
... respects true ; but Theophrastus has sagaciously re- marked , according to Plutarch , that of all the senses the ear is that by which the passions may be most easily excited.- Larcher . Our veneration for the ancients , however , must ...
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... respects admis- sible . Plutarch pretends , that Gyges took up arms against Candaules , assisted by the Milesians . The opinion of Hero- dotus seems preferable to the rest : born in a city contiguous to Lydia , no person could be better ...
... respects admis- sible . Plutarch pretends , that Gyges took up arms against Candaules , assisted by the Milesians . The opinion of Hero- dotus seems preferable to the rest : born in a city contiguous to Lydia , no person could be better ...
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... respects from those of Diodorus Siculus . - Voyage de Jeune Anacharsis . See Pur- chas , vol . i . p . 35 . Alyattes and Croesus obtained their wealth from some mines in Lydia , situated between Atarna and Pergamos . The riches of Gyges ...
... respects from those of Diodorus Siculus . - Voyage de Jeune Anacharsis . See Pur- chas , vol . i . p . 35 . Alyattes and Croesus obtained their wealth from some mines in Lydia , situated between Atarna and Pergamos . The riches of Gyges ...
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Página 138 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure : Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain! The master saw the madness rise, His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes; And while he heaven and earth defied Changed his hand, and checked his pride. He chose a mournful Muse Soft pity to infuse : He sung Darius great and...
Página 65 - Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims play ! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day.
Página 196 - God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Página 359 - And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat : and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness : And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land...
Página 361 - And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves : because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews ; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Página 254 - Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Página 65 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : | yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Página 428 - And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father : and the physicians embalmed Israel. And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed : and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
Página 259 - This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Página 356 - The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.