The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians, Volume 2W. Borradaile, 1825 - Civilization, Ancient |
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... authority , and in defiance of the prohibitions to the contrary , presumed to re- build their temple ; which must necessarily be prejudicial to the king's inte- rest . Upon this representation of theirs the governor thought fit to go ...
... authority , and in defiance of the prohibitions to the contrary , presumed to re- build their temple ; which must necessarily be prejudicial to the king's inte- rest . Upon this representation of theirs the governor thought fit to go ...
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... authority , unless they chose rather to draw the whole power of Darius upon them . This second attempt succeeded no better than the first ; Hippias was obliged to wait for a more favourable junc- ture . We shall see presently that he ...
... authority , unless they chose rather to draw the whole power of Darius upon them . This second attempt succeeded no better than the first ; Hippias was obliged to wait for a more favourable junc- ture . We shall see presently that he ...
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... authority , which might become pernicious to the commonwealth . One day , having got the better of Themistocles , who had made some proposal really advantageous to the state , he could not contain himself , but cried out aloud as he ...
... authority , which might become pernicious to the commonwealth . One day , having got the better of Themistocles , who had made some proposal really advantageous to the state , he could not contain himself , but cried out aloud as he ...
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... authority to justify , with pride and obstinacy whatever faults they have committed through ignorance or imprudence . We may venture , I think , to say , that it is more glorious to rise in this manner , than it would be never to have ...
... authority to justify , with pride and obstinacy whatever faults they have committed through ignorance or imprudence . We may venture , I think , to say , that it is more glorious to rise in this manner , than it would be never to have ...
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... authority . Xerxes , at a vast expense , had caused a bridge of boats to be built across the sea , for the passage of his forces from Asia into Europe . The space that separates the two continents , formerly called the Hellespont and ...
... authority . Xerxes , at a vast expense , had caused a bridge of boats to be built across the sea , for the passage of his forces from Asia into Europe . The space that separates the two continents , formerly called the Hellespont and ...
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Page 110 - Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem, unto the Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks : the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself...
Page 109 - Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.
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Page 75 - Thus the day passed without any action at all. In the evening the Grecians held a council of war, in which they determined to decamp, and take possession of a place more commodious for water, because the springs of their present camp were disturbed and spoiled by the enemy's horse.
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Page 39 - In order to prevent them, he judged it necessary to vest the whole power in one single person ; and, to induce his colleagues to act conformably, he himself set the first example of resignation. When the day came on which it was his turn to take upon him the command, he resigned it to Miltiades, as the more able and experienced general. The other commanders did the same, all sentiments of jealousy giving way to the love of the public good ; and by this day's...
Page 173 - Selinus, who were assisted by the Syracusans. It was the sixteenth year of the Peloponnesian war. They represented, among other things, that, should they be abandoned, the Syracusans, after seizing their city, as they had done that of Leontium, would possess themselves of all Sicily, and not fail to aid the Peloponnesians, who were their founders ; and, that they might put them to as little charge as possible, they offered to pay the troops that should be sent to succour them. The Athenians, who...
Page 285 - He had no open school, like the rest of the philosophers, nor set times for his lessons; he had no benches prepared nor ever mounted a professor's chair; he was the philosopher of all times and seasons; he taught in all places, and upon all occasions; in walking, conversation at meals, in the army, and in the midst of the camp, in the public assemblies of the senate or people.
Page 40 - Having but 10,000 men to oppose to such a numerous and vast army, it was impossible for him either to make a large front, or to give an equal depth to his battalions. He was obliged, therefore, to take his choice ; and he imagined, that he could gain the victory no otherwise than by the efforts he should make with his two wings, in order to break and disperse those of the Persians...
Page 54 - ... again over them fastened and joined together, to serve as a kind of floor or solid bottom : all which they covered over with earth, and added rails or battlements on each side, that the horses and cattle might not be frightened with seeing the sea in their passage.