The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians, Volume 2G. Long, 1830 - History, Ancient |
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... sent for Democedes ; who promised to cure her , and at the same time requested , that she would be pleased to grant him a certain favour he should beg of her , entirely consistent with her honour . The queen engaged her word , and was ...
... sent for Democedes ; who promised to cure her , and at the same time requested , that she would be pleased to grant him a certain favour he should beg of her , entirely consistent with her honour . The queen engaged her word , and was ...
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... sent for all his children , and giving to each of them , one after another a bundle of arrows tied fast together , desired them to break them . Each used his endeavours , but was not able to do it . Then untying the bundle , and giving ...
... sent for all his children , and giving to each of them , one after another a bundle of arrows tied fast together , desired them to break them . Each used his endeavours , but was not able to do it . Then untying the bundle , and giving ...
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... sent all their herds and flocks , reserving nothing to themselves but what was necessary for the support of their army . Another precaution of theirs was to fill up all their wells , and stop up their springs , and to consume all the ...
... sent all their herds and flocks , reserving nothing to themselves but what was necessary for the support of their army . Another precaution of theirs was to fill up all their wells , and stop up their springs , and to consume all the ...
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... sent a considerable detachment , as quick as possible , to the Danube : this detachment , being perfectly well acquainted with the roads of the country , arrived at the bridge a considerable time before the Persians . The Scythians had sent ...
... sent a considerable detachment , as quick as possible , to the Danube : this detachment , being perfectly well acquainted with the roads of the country , arrived at the bridge a considerable time before the Persians . The Scythians had sent ...
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... sent for that prince to his court , and desired him freely to ask any favour , in recompence of his service . Hystiæus hereupon desired the king to give him Marcina of Edonia , a territory upon the river Strymon in Thrace , together ...
... sent for that prince to his court , and desired him freely to ask any favour , in recompence of his service . Hystiæus hereupon desired the king to give him Marcina of Edonia , a territory upon the river Strymon in Thrace , together ...
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Page 110 - And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself : and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a floXxl, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
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 85 - Themistocles taking him aside, told him that the design he had conceived, was to burn the fleet belonging to the rest of the Grecian states which then lay in a neighbouring port, when Athens would assuredly become mistress of all Greece.
Page 110 - And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week : and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease...
Page 317 - Delium, the fear of death should at this time make me abandon that in which the Divine Providence has placed me, by commanding me to pass my life in the study of philosophy, for the instruction of myself and others, this would be a most criminal desertion indeed, and make me highly worthy of being cited before this tribunal as an impious man, who does not believe the gods. " Should you resolve to acquit me ; for the future, I should not hesitate to make answer, Atheaians, I honour and love you; but...
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Page 325 - Soon after which, he breathed his last. Crito went to his body, and closed his mouth and eyes. Such was the end of Socrates, in the first year of the ninety-fifth Olympiad, and the seventieth of his age.
Page 115 - Lacedaemonians sent a second time to desire succours of the Athenians against the Messenians and Helots, who had seized upon Ithome. But when they came, fearing their boldness and gallantry, of all that came to their assistance, they sent them only back, alleging they were designing innovations. The Athenians returned home, enraged at this usage, and vented their anger upon all those who were...
Page 74 - Megarians, who were encamped upon a plain, suffered extremely by them ; and, in spite of all the vigour and resolution with which they defended themselves, they were upon the point of giving way, when a detachment of 300 Athenians, with some troops...