A History of the World from the Earliest Records to the Present Time: From the accession of Philip of Macedon to the Roman conquest of Carthage and AsiaD. Appleton, 1865 |
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... civilization to the East . That master was the ruler of a country adjacent to Greece , but hitherto regarded as beyond the Hellenic pale . The military genius of its new and youthful sovereign now first brought its natural resources ...
... civilization to the East . That master was the ruler of a country adjacent to Greece , but hitherto regarded as beyond the Hellenic pale . The military genius of its new and youthful sovereign now first brought its natural resources ...
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... civilization . Such was the course taken by Archelaüs , who made his new capital at The following is the entire succession of the Macedonian kings , from the founda- tion of the monarchy to its conquest by the Romans :-( 1 . ) Perdiccas ...
... civilization . Such was the course taken by Archelaüs , who made his new capital at The following is the entire succession of the Macedonian kings , from the founda- tion of the monarchy to its conquest by the Romans :-( 1 . ) Perdiccas ...
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... civilization , as well as for her resolute attitude of de- fence and her still great maritime power . For the present , at all events , he was content to wreak his vengeance upon Thebes , by selling her prisoners as slaves , putting to ...
... civilization , as well as for her resolute attitude of de- fence and her still great maritime power . For the present , at all events , he was content to wreak his vengeance upon Thebes , by selling her prisoners as slaves , putting to ...
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... civilization . The prevailing sentiment of Greece tended in the opposite direction . It was not at once easy to believe that the empire of Darius and Xerxes , the kingdom which had lately dictated terms of peace to the Greek states ...
... civilization . The prevailing sentiment of Greece tended in the opposite direction . It was not at once easy to believe that the empire of Darius and Xerxes , the kingdom which had lately dictated terms of peace to the Greek states ...
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... civilization ; as the source from which Greece had derived her arts , her laws , her gods themselves . Here , then , was the sacred spot where the descendant of Hercules and Achilles might set at rest the question , which had been ...
... civilization ; as the source from which Greece had derived her arts , her laws , her gods themselves . Here , then , was the sacred spot where the descendant of Hercules and Achilles might set at rest the question , which had been ...
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A History of the World from the Earliest Records to the Present Time: From ... Philip Smith Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1864 |
A History of the World from the Earliest Records to the Present Time: From ... Philip Smith Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1865 |
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Achæan Africa Agathocles Alexander Alexander's alliance allies Alps ancient Antigonus Antiochus Antipater Apennines army Asia Athenians Athens attack battle called Campania Carthage Carthaginians Cassander cavalry century chief citizens coast colonies Comitia command confederacy conquest consul Curiæ Darius death decemvirs defeat Demetrius Demosthenes Egypt election empire enemy Etruria Etruscans Fabius fleet followed force formed garrison Gauls Greece Greek Hamilcar Hannibal Hasdrubal Hellenic hill History of Rome island Italian Italy king land Latin Latium latter league legend Lilybæum Lucanians Lysimachus Macedonian marched Meanwhile mercenaries military Mommsen nations party patricians peace peninsula Persian phalanx Philip Phocion Phoenician plebeians political possession Ptolemy Punic Pyrrhus race republic river Roman Rome Sabine sacred Samnites Samnium Scipio seems Senate sent Servius ships shores Sicily siege soldiers Sparta success Syracuse Tarentum Tarquin temple territory Tiber tion trace treaty tribes tribunes Tyre Veientines victory Volscians whole
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Sida 150 - Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers : dost thou flow, Old Tiber ! through a marble wilderness ? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress.
Sida 32 - The ram which thou sawest having two horns, are the kings of Media and Persia. And the rough goat is the king of Grecia : and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
Sida 32 - And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
Sida 365 - Within a long recess there lies a bay : An island shades it from the rolling sea, And forms a port secure for ships to ride : Broke by the jutting land on either side, In double streams the briny waters glide...
Sida 502 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Sida 366 - CARTHAGE. Carthage and her Remains : being an Account of the Excavations and Researches on the Site of the Phoenician Metropolis in Africa and other adjacent Places. Conducted under the Auspices of Her Majesty's Government.
Sida 224 - The early history of Rome is indeed far more poetical than anything else in Latin literature. The loves of the Vestal and the God of War, the cradle laid among the reeds of Tiber, the fig-tree, the she-wolf, the shepherd's cabin, the recognition, the fratricide, the rape of the Sabines, the death of Tarpeia, the fall of Hostus Hostilius, the struggle of...
Sida 381 - First Moloch, horrid king besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears, Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that passed through fire To his grim idol.
Sida 82 - Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken ; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.
Sida 222 - LARS PORSENA of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth, East and west and south and north, To summon his array.