A Compend of History from the Earliest Times: Comprehending a General View of the Present State of the World : with Respect to Civilization, Religion, and Government : and a Brief Dissertation on the Importance of Historical KnowledgeRichardson and Lord, 1826 |
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Africa ages Alexander ambition ancient arms army arts Asia Assyrian empire Athenians Athens Babylon barbarous battle British called Carthage Carthaginians cause celebrated century Cesar character Charles Christ Christian civil command commerce conquered conqueror conquest Croesus Cyaxares Cyrus Darius death defeated destroyed destruction dominions Egypt emperor enemies England enterprise equal Esarhaddon Europe fortune France French genius glory Grecian Greece Greeks Hannibal happiness Henry honor illustrious immense important inhabitants invaded invasion Israel Italy Judah king kingdom Lacedemon land length Lewis liberty Macedon Medes military mind monarch Nabonassar nations nature never Nineveh peace period Persians Philip Pompey prince probably provinces Pyrrhus reign religion rendered republic revolution river Roman Rome ruin Russia savage Scythians seemed senate Society soon Spain Sparta Spartan spirit success successor Syria Tamerlane Themistocles things throne tion Turks tyranny United victory virtue warlike wars wealth wisdom
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Seite 171 - Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself as for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time.
Seite 196 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears : we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing...
Seite 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Seite 43 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Seite 65 - ... the furies of hell, in the abused shape of the vilest of women.
Seite 92 - ... other establishments, which indicate some advancement in refinement and knowledge. Certain of the inhabitants of Samos, it would seem, envious of this comparative happiness of Scio, landed upon the island in an irregular multitude, for the purpose of compelling its inhabitants to make common cause with their countrymen against their oppressors. These, being joined by the peasantry, marched to the city and drove the Turks into the castle. The Turkish fleet, lately reinforced from Egypt, happened...
Seite 83 - ... Exposed to the factions which divide my Country, and to the enmity of the greatest Powers of Europe, I have terminated my political career ; and I come, like Themistocles, to throw myself upon the hospitality of the British People.
Seite 88 - ... to the noise of a tumultuous assembly, and with pebbles in his mouth that he might correct a defect in his speech...
Seite 64 - Nicias to rely entirely upon himself; and the next day, when the people were assembled, and the ambassadors introduced, Alcibiades, with a very obliging air, demanded of them with what powers they were come?
Seite 74 - I honour and love you ; but I shall choose rather to obey God than you, and to my latest breath shall never renounce my philosophy, nor cease to exhort and reprove you, according to my custom, by telling- each of you, when you come in my way, My good friend and citizen of the most famous city in the world for wisdom and valour, are you not ashamed to have no other thoughts than...