An Ancient History for BeginnersMacmillan, 1902 - 494 pàgines |
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Pàgina 30 - Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them...
Pàgina 30 - ... but ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves : for thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God...
Pàgina 185 - Walls up to the heart of the city, it swept and swelled, as each man to his neighbor passed on the news. On that night no man slept. There was mourning and sorrow for those that were lost, but the lamentation for the dead was merged in even deeper sorrow for...
Pàgina 129 - Safe shall the wooden wall continue for thee and thy children. Wait not the tramp of the horse, nor the footmen mightily moving Over the land, but turn your back to the foe, and retire ye. Yet shall a day arrive when ye shall meet him in battle. Holy Salamis, thou shalt destroy the offspring of women, When men scatter the seed, or when they gather the harvest.
Pàgina 30 - Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and (one) call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice...
Pàgina 121 - Men of Lacedaemon, the Athenians beseech you to hasten to their aid, and not allow that state, which is the most ancient in all Greece, to be enslaved by the barbarians. Eretria, look you, is already carried away captive, and Greece weakened by the loss of no mean city.
Pàgina 129 - Pallas has not been able to soften the lord of Olympus, Though she has often prayed him, and urged him with excellent counsel, Yet once more I address thee in words than adamant firmer. When the foe shall have taken whatever the limit of...
Pàgina 260 - And with one voice the Thirty Have their glad answer given: 'Go forth, go forth, Lars Porsena; Go forth, beloved of Heaven; Go, and return in glory To Clusium's royal dome, And hang round Nurscia's altars The golden shields of Rome.
Pàgina 188 - But if he who desires to have before his eyes a true picture of the events which have happened, and of the 20 like events which may be expected to happen hereafter in the order of human things, shall pronounce what I have written to be useful, then I shall be satisfied.
Pàgina 230 - Wherefore my counsel is that we hold fast ever to the heavenly way and follow after justice and virtue always, considering that the soul is immortal and able to endure every sort of good and every sort of evil. Thus shall we live dear to one another and to the gods, both while remaining here and when, like conquerors in the games who go round to gather d gifts, we receive our reward.