The Juvenile Rollin; Or Conversations on Ancient History, Teil 267,Band 1William Hyde. Portland: G. Hyde & Company, 1832 |
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... Greek theatres : Wri- ters for the stage : Socrates : Xantippe : Sto- ics : Death of Socrates : Religion of the Greek philosophers . CHAPTER X. Time in which most of the wise men of Greece flourished : Plato : Dionysius , elder and ...
... Greek theatres : Wri- ters for the stage : Socrates : Xantippe : Sto- ics : Death of Socrates : Religion of the Greek philosophers . CHAPTER X. Time in which most of the wise men of Greece flourished : Plato : Dionysius , elder and ...
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... Greeks : His death Xerxes . CHAPTER XII . Xerxes sets out on his expedition to Greece : He enters into an engagement ... Greeks : Aristides recalled : Battle of Thermopyla : Leonidas : Persian fleet : Greek fleet : Naval battle ...
... Greeks : His death Xerxes . CHAPTER XII . Xerxes sets out on his expedition to Greece : He enters into an engagement ... Greeks : Aristides recalled : Battle of Thermopyla : Leonidas : Persian fleet : Greek fleet : Naval battle ...
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... Greek governments , which were small , and had never been uni- ted before , now formed an alliance and be- sieged Troy . The Trojans could not con- vince them that Helen was not in their city , and they continued to besiege it ten years ...
... Greek governments , which were small , and had never been uni- ted before , now formed an alliance and be- sieged Troy . The Trojans could not con- vince them that Helen was not in their city , and they continued to besiege it ten years ...
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Susa , still standing in the time of Herodotus , a Greek historian , who saw it several hun- dred years after Daniel's death . H. Did Cyrus ever make any more con- quests ? Mrs H. No ; he spent these seven years in peace , journeying ...
Susa , still standing in the time of Herodotus , a Greek historian , who saw it several hun- dred years after Daniel's death . H. Did Cyrus ever make any more con- quests ? Mrs H. No ; he spent these seven years in peace , journeying ...
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... Greeks , Ionians ; and Greece , Ionia ; from Ion , or Javan , ( these names are the same in Hebrew , ) the son of Japheth . There were a great many wars and changes however , among these people , and their language al- tered in various ...
... Greeks , Ionians ; and Greece , Ionia ; from Ion , or Javan , ( these names are the same in Hebrew , ) the son of Japheth . There were a great many wars and changes however , among these people , and their language al- tered in various ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Æsop Amasis ancient Aristagoras army Artaphernes asked Assyrians Astyages Athenians Athens Babylonians battle better called Cambyses command conquered conquest Croesus Cyaxares Cyrus Darius dear death Egyp Egypt Egyptians Engravings Esarhaddon Fanny father fleet Frances gave gods Grecians Greece Greeks Harrison hear Helen Henry Hippias honor hundred Hystæius inhabitants Ionians island Jane Jews killed king of Babylon kingdom knew land laws lesson lived look Lycurgus mama Mardonius married Medes Media mother never Nineveh obliged oracle papa Persians Phenicia prince recollect replied returned revolt rich river Rollin Sardis Scythians Semiramis sent ships sians Smerdis Socrates soldiers Solon soon Spartans story suppose tell temple things thought throne tians tion told took troops walls wanted wise wish Xerxes young Zopyrus
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 37 - that men shall beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks...
Seite 214 - Athos, thou proud and aspiring mountain, that liftest up thy head to the very skies, I advise thee not to be so audacious, as to put rocks and stones, that cannot be cut, in the way of my workmen ! If thou makest that opposition, I will cut thee entirely down, and throw thee headlong into the sea...
Seite 219 - BRANDE.-A DICTIONARY OF SCIENCE, LITERATURE, AND ART; comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of every Branch of Human Knowledge; with the Derivation and Definition of all the Terms in General Use.
Seite 172 - He used to thank the gods for three things ; that he was born a reasonable creature, and not a beast ; a man, and not a woman ; a Greek, and not a Barbarian.
Seite 110 - That whosoever should ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of the king, should be cast into the den of lions...
Seite 105 - doeth what he will in the armies of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth...
Seite 86 - Cyrus to dispose of all the meats as he thought fit, the latter immediately distributed them to the king's officers in waiting ; to one, because he taught him to ride ; to another, because he waited well upon his grandfather ; and to a third, because he took great care of his mother.
Seite 127 - When, therefore, Cambyses put his question, they managed to find an answer which would neither violate the truth nor endanger their own necks: namely, that though they could discover no law which allowed brother to marry sister, there was undoubtedly a law which permitted the king of Persia to do what he pleased...
Seite 58 - Scripture was represented by the then flourishing kingdom of Egypt, under the sway of the mighty dynasty of the Ptolemies, — in the face, however, of the prophecies, which had said that Mitzraim should be " the basest of the kingdoms...
Seite 112 - ... in the sense of embracing a Calvinistic creed with an Arminian clergy ; or, in a sense of believing in a trinity of persons in the Godhead — the same in substance, equal in power and glory — and then fraternising with those who deny the divinity of Christ. It is not broad enough to believe that there is but one name given under heaven among men whereby we can be saved...