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... Relate the story of Theseus alluded to , and quote Virgil's lines on the subject . CHAPTER III . LOWER EGYPT . This is the best cultivated , most fruitful , and the richest part of Egypt . Its chief cities ( anciently ) were Heliopolis ...
... Relate the story of Theseus alluded to , and quote Virgil's lines on the subject . CHAPTER III . LOWER EGYPT . This is the best cultivated , most fruitful , and the richest part of Egypt . Its chief cities ( anciently ) were Heliopolis ...
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... relates an action of his which will give us some idea of his degeneracy . In an extraordinary inundation of the Nile , which exceeded eighteen cubits , Pheron , being enraged at the devastation it had caused , threw a javelin at the ...
... relates an action of his which will give us some idea of his degeneracy . In an extraordinary inundation of the Nile , which exceeded eighteen cubits , Pheron , being enraged at the devastation it had caused , threw a javelin at the ...
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... Relate some of his exploits . How did he die ? Who succeeded Sesostris ; and what was his character ? In what year did Proteus ascend the throne ? Give some account of the Trojan war alluded to . What king of Israel was contemporary ...
... Relate some of his exploits . How did he die ? Who succeeded Sesostris ; and what was his character ? In what year did Proteus ascend the throne ? Give some account of the Trojan war alluded to . What king of Israel was contemporary ...
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... Relate the story , as told by some historians , of Dido's stratagem to obtain a large portion of land on which to build a city . What was the condition of Europe and Asia at this period ? Name some contemporary kings . What caused Dido ...
... Relate the story , as told by some historians , of Dido's stratagem to obtain a large portion of land on which to build a city . What was the condition of Europe and Asia at this period ? Name some contemporary kings . What caused Dido ...
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... relating to Hannibal , and the disputes between the Carthaginians and Masinissa , king of the Numidians . When the second Punic war terminated , Hannibal was forty - five years of age . The remainder of the history of this great man ...
... relating to Hannibal , and the disputes between the Carthaginians and Masinissa , king of the Numidians . When the second Punic war terminated , Hannibal was forty - five years of age . The remainder of the history of this great man ...
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Page 81 - ... the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Page 126 - Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth ; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Page 126 - Now IN the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia...
Page 82 - I blessed the Most High, and I praise'd and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation : and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing : and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth ; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou...
Page 119 - This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Page 82 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 82 - But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him; and he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven ; till he knew that the Most High God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
Page 126 - Who is there among you of all his people ? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem. And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, besides the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.
Page 119 - Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this; but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified: then was the part of...
Page 81 - The leave* were fair, and the fruit much ; and in it was meat for all : the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof ; and all flesh was fed of it.