The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Greeks, Band 2James, John and Paul Knapton, 1734 |
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... taken , of making use of other peo- ple's labours , and of adopting whatever fuits my purpose . This liberty which I have taken , as difhonourable as it is to felf - love , and favourable to laziness , greatly contributes to forward and ...
... taken , of making use of other peo- ple's labours , and of adopting whatever fuits my purpose . This liberty which I have taken , as difhonourable as it is to felf - love , and favourable to laziness , greatly contributes to forward and ...
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... taken up in gardens and other culti- vated lands , as we are told by Q. Curtius . II . THE KEYS AND BRIDGE . A branch of the river Euphrates did run quite c . 180. & cross the city , entering in on the north fide , and going out on the ...
... taken up in gardens and other culti- vated lands , as we are told by Q. Curtius . II . THE KEYS AND BRIDGE . A branch of the river Euphrates did run quite c . 180. & cross the city , entering in on the north fide , and going out on the ...
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... taken with the mountains and woody parts of that country , and therefore defired to have fomething like it in Babylon ; and to gratify her herein was the reason of erecting this monftrous work of vanity : Diodorus gives much the fame ...
... taken with the mountains and woody parts of that country , and therefore defired to have fomething like it in Babylon ; and to gratify her herein was the reason of erecting this monftrous work of vanity : Diodorus gives much the fame ...
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... taken prisoners . Encouraged by this fuccefs , fhe advanced forthwith into the country , , leav ing fixty thousand men behind , to guard the bridge of boats , which she had built over the river . This was just what the king defired ...
... taken prisoners . Encouraged by this fuccefs , fhe advanced forthwith into the country , , leav ing fixty thousand men behind , to guard the bridge of boats , which she had built over the river . This was just what the king defired ...
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... taken into cuftody , fhe voluntarily abdi- cated the throne , put the government into the hands of her fon , and withdrew from the fight of men , hoping speedily to attain to the divine honours pro- mised her by the oracle . And indeed ...
... taken into cuftody , fhe voluntarily abdi- cated the throne , put the government into the hands of her fon , and withdrew from the fight of men , hoping speedily to attain to the divine honours pro- mised her by the oracle . And indeed ...
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Seite 43 - ... under it, and the fowls from his branches : nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field ; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth : let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given unto him ; and let seven times pass over him.
Seite 44 - ... he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven ; till he knew that the Most High God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
Seite 60 - Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid? "The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
Seite 44 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Seite 150 - And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this; but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them ; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified...
Seite 144 - The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people ; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together : the Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle. They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the Lord, and the weapons of His indignation, to destroy the whole land.
Seite 43 - This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know, that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.
Seite 143 - And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
Seite 15 - The whole was covered with thick sheets of lead, upon which lay the mould of the garden. And all this floorage was contrived to keep the moisture of the mould from running away through the arches. The...
Seite 141 - Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.