Ancient oriental nations and GreeceR.S. Peale, J.A. Hill, 1897 - 3494 pàgines |
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Ægean afterwards Agesilaüs Alcibíades Alexander allies ancient arms army Artaxerxes Artaxerxes Mnemon Aryan Asia Minor Athenian Athenian fleet Athens Attica battle became Boeotia Brahmans Buddhism called Carthage Carthaginians caused celebrated century chariot chief China citizens coast colonies command conquered conquest Corinth Ctesias Cyrus Darius Hystaspes death defeated dominion Dorian east Egypt enemies feet force goddess gods Grecian Greece Greek Hellenic Herodotus Hindoos honor hundred India invaders Ionian island Lacedæmonians land leader likewise Macedon Macedonian Medo-Persian Empire ment Messenians miles Milétus monarch mountain native nians oracle palace peace Peloponnesian Peloponnesus Pericles Persian Persian king Philip philosopher Phocians Phocis Piræus plain possession provinces race region reign religion revolt river sacred satrap sent ships sian Sicily side siege soon soul Spartan Syracusans Syracuse temple Thebans Thebes Themistocles Thessaly thousand Thrace throne tion tribes troops tyrant Vedas victory walls worship Xenophon Xerxes Zeus
Passatges populars
Pàgina 494 - Let me not yet, O Varuna, enter into the house of clay: have mercy, almighty, have mercy. " If I go along trembling like a cloud driven by the wind : have mercy, almighty, have mercy...
Pàgina 486 - Ocean, on the south by the Indian Ocean and on the west by the...
Pàgina 492 - He who gives life, he who gives strength ; whose command all the Bright Gods revere ; whose shadow is immortality, whose shadow is death.
Pàgina 493 - He to Whom heaven and earth, standing firm by His will, look up trembling inwardly — He over Whom the rising sun shines forth ; who is the God...
Pàgina 690 - King Artaxerxes thinks it just that the cities in Asia and the islands of Clazomenae and Cyprus should belong to him. He also thinks it just to leave all the other Grecian cities, both small and great, independent, — except Lemnos, Imbros, and Scyros, which are to belong to Athens, as of old.
Pàgina 494 - Thirst came upon the worshipper though he stood in the midst of the waters : have mercy, almighty, have mercy ! " Whenever we men, O Varuna, commit an offence before the heavenly host, whenever we break the law through thoughtlessness : have mercy, almighty, have mercy !
Pàgina 518 - Let no man think lightly of evil, saying in his heart, It will not come nigh unto me. Even by the falling of water-drops a waterpot is filled; the fool becomes full of evil, even if he gather it little by little. Let no man think lightly of good, saying in his heart, It will not come nigh unto me.
Pàgina 518 - Not to commit any sin, to do good, and to purify one's mind, that is the teaching of all the Awakened.
Pàgina 572 - On them, of all creation blest, Sweet insect, that delight'st to rest Upon the wild wood's leafy tops, To drink the dew that morning drops, And chirp thy song with such a glee, T'mt happiest kings may envy tliee.
Pàgina 538 - When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it;—this is knowledge.