The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthagininas, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians, Volume 6Collins and Company, 1820 |
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... whole army ; and they at first produced all the effect he proposed from them . A great number of the besieged were slain in this attack , and several breaches were opened in the mole which covered the port : but they were not very ad ...
... whole army ; and they at first produced all the effect he proposed from them . A great number of the besieged were slain in this attack , and several breaches were opened in the mole which covered the port : but they were not very ad ...
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... whole mass rest- ed upon eight wheels that were made proportionable to the superstructure . The fellies of these wheels were three feet thick , and strengthened with large iron plates . In order to facilitate and vary the movements of ...
... whole mass rest- ed upon eight wheels that were made proportionable to the superstructure . The fellies of these wheels were three feet thick , and strengthened with large iron plates . In order to facilitate and vary the movements of ...
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... whole , and even the letters , to Ptolemy , which exceedingly exasperated De- metrius . In this proceeding , says Plutarch , they did not imitate the polite conduct of the Athenians , who , having once seized some of the couriers of ...
... whole , and even the letters , to Ptolemy , which exceedingly exasperated De- metrius . In this proceeding , says Plutarch , they did not imitate the polite conduct of the Athenians , who , having once seized some of the couriers of ...
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... whole time he applied himself to this work , condemned himself to a very rigid and abstemious life , that the delicacy of his taste and imagination might not be affected by his diet . This pic- ture was carried to Rome , and consecrated ...
... whole time he applied himself to this work , condemned himself to a very rigid and abstemious life , that the delicacy of his taste and imagination might not be affected by his diet . This pic- ture was carried to Rome , and consecrated ...
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... whole empire to himself ; and that it was time to form a strict alliance with each other , to humble this exorbitant power . They were likewise of- fended , and Lysimachus in particular , at the contemptible manner in which Demetrius ...
... whole empire to himself ; and that it was time to form a strict alliance with each other , to humble this exorbitant power . They were likewise of- fended , and Lysimachus in particular , at the contemptible manner in which Demetrius ...
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Page 117 - And in the end of years they shall join themselves together ; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement : but she shall not retain the power of the arm ; neither shall he stand, nor his arm : but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.
Page 110 - Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him. "And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all : and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia.
Page 119 - And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the north.
Page 110 - And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great dominion.
Page 110 - And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those.
Page 126 - ... the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.