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Sida ix
... present at this great solemnity , with his father Olorus , and on hearing the composition of Herodotus , discovered the seeds of those exalted talents which after- wards made his name immortal . After listening to the father of history ...
... present at this great solemnity , with his father Olorus , and on hearing the composition of Herodotus , discovered the seeds of those exalted talents which after- wards made his name immortal . After listening to the father of history ...
Sida xv
... present settle- 6 1 The simplicity with which Herodotus commences his history , and enters immediately on his subject , has been much and deservedly adinired , and exhibits a strik - ment , and soon distinguished themselves by ing ...
... present settle- 6 1 The simplicity with which Herodotus commences his history , and enters immediately on his subject , has been much and deservedly adinired , and exhibits a strik - ment , and soon distinguished themselves by ing ...
Sida 7
... present emergence . This is the Milesian narrative . XXI . Alyattes , on the return of his mes- sengers , despatched an herald to Miletus , whose commission was , to make a truce with Thrasy- bulus for such time as might be required to ...
... present emergence . This is the Milesian narrative . XXI . Alyattes , on the return of his mes- sengers , despatched an herald to Miletus , whose commission was , to make a truce with Thrasy- bulus for such time as might be required to ...
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... present instance , towards you is influenced by a vision , which has lately warned me that your life will be short , and that you must perish from the wound of an iron spear . This has first of all induced me to accelerate your nuptials ...
... present instance , towards you is influenced by a vision , which has lately warned me that your life will be short , and that you must perish from the wound of an iron spear . This has first of all induced me to accelerate your nuptials ...
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... presents , were directed to inquire whether Croesus might auspiciously undertake an expedition against the Persians , and whether he should procure any confederate assistance . On their arrival at the destined places , they deposited ...
... presents , were directed to inquire whether Croesus might auspiciously undertake an expedition against the Persians , and whether he should procure any confederate assistance . On their arrival at the destined places , they deposited ...
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Sida 230 - And the people gave a shout, saying ; It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory ; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Sida 315 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Sida 9 - 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.
Sida 128 - And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ear-ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold...
Sida 127 - And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
Sida 79 - In the vicinity of Thebes there are also sacred serpents," not at all troublesome to men : they are very small, but have two horns on the top of the head. When they die, they are buried in the temple of Jupiter, to whom they are said to belong.
Sida 153 - Turks may exercise a shadow of jurisdiction, but his pride is reduced to solicit the friendship of a people whom it is dangerous to provoke and fruitless to attack.
Sida 40 - The earth of the trench was first of all laid in heaps, and when a sufficient quantity was obtained, made into square bricks, and baked in a furnace. They used as cement a composition of heated bitumen, which, mixed with the tops of reeds, was placed between every thirtieth course of bricks.
Sida 171 - But these two things shall come to thee in a moment, in one day ; the loss of children...
Sida 243 - The olive, in the western world, followed the progress of peace, of which it was considered as the symbol. Two centuries after the foundation of Rome, both Italy and Africa were strangers to that useful plant ; it was naturalized in those countries ; and at length carried into the heart of Spain and Gaul. The timid errors of the ancients, that it required a certain degree of heat, and could only flourish in the neighbourhood of the sea, were insensibly exploded by industry and experience.