School History of GreeceHarper, 1877 - 349 pàgines |
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Pàgina 8
... course of Greek thought and of Greek art in its widest meaning . It is enough to say that for the Greek , as for the Aryan conquerors of India , the whole world of sense was alive . For him the trees , the clouds , the waters were all ...
... course of Greek thought and of Greek art in its widest meaning . It is enough to say that for the Greek , as for the Aryan conquerors of India , the whole world of sense was alive . For him the trees , the clouds , the waters were all ...
Pàgina 9
... course , have been a Trojan war under- taken to avenge the wrongs of an earthly Helen . But it is admitted on all hands that for this war we have no contemporary history ; and if we examine the story , we find that in its main features ...
... course , have been a Trojan war under- taken to avenge the wrongs of an earthly Helen . But it is admitted on all hands that for this war we have no contemporary history ; and if we examine the story , we find that in its main features ...
Pàgina 11
... course of ages began to attract visitors from other clans now recognised as sprung from the same stock . Such was the simple origin of those splendid and solemn gatherings which made the names of Pytho and Olympia famous . For their ...
... course of ages began to attract visitors from other clans now recognised as sprung from the same stock . Such was the simple origin of those splendid and solemn gatherings which made the names of Pytho and Olympia famous . For their ...
Pàgina 22
... course of developement from oligarchy to despotism , and from despotism through oligarchy to democratic rule , is perfectly clear , the history of individual . despots should have come down to us in forms so fragmentary and distorted ...
... course of developement from oligarchy to despotism , and from despotism through oligarchy to democratic rule , is perfectly clear , the history of individual . despots should have come down to us in forms so fragmentary and distorted ...
Pàgina 25
... courses . Sometimes living fires might leap from the sky with a deafening roar , or the earth might tremble beneath their feet and swal- low man and his works in its yawning jaws . Whence came all these wonderful or terrible things ...
... courses . Sometimes living fires might leap from the sky with a deafening roar , or the earth might tremble beneath their feet and swal- low man and his works in its yawning jaws . Whence came all these wonderful or terrible things ...
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Akropolis Alkibiades alliance allies Argives Aristagoras army Artabanos Artaphernes Athens attack Attica barbarians battle Boiotian Brasidas brought Byzantion carried Chios citizens coast command confederacy conquest Corinth Corinthian Corinthian gulf Cyrus Dareios death defeat Delphoi demos Demosthenes despot empire enemy envoys ephors Euboia Eupatrid Eurybiades fight followed force Greeks gulf harbour hastened Hellas Hellenic Hellespont Herodotos Hippias Histiaios hoplites Ionians island Kambyses Kleisthenes Kleomenes Kleon Korkyra Korkyraians Kroisos land Leonidas Lydian Lysandros Makedonian Marathon Mardonios Messenians Miletos nians Nikias oligarchs once passed Pausanias Peiraieus Peisistratos Peloponnesian Peloponnesos Perikles Persian fleet Persian king Phenician Phokians Plataia Polykrates Pylos reached retreat revolt sailed Salamis Samos Sardeis satrap Scythians sent ships Sicily slain Solon Sousa Spartan king Spartans storm story Syracusan Thebans Thebes Themistokles Theramenes Thermopylai Thrakian Thucydides tidings Tissaphernes told tribes triremes troops tyrant victory walls whole Xerxes
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Pàgina 12 - A NEW STAR ATLAS, for the Library, the School, and the Observatory, in Twelve Circular Maps (with Two Index Plates). Intended as a Companion to ' Webb's Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes.
Pàgina 16 - Encyclopaedia of Plants ; comprising the Specific Character, Description, Culture, History, &c. of all the Plants found in Great Britain.
Pàgina 15 - INSECTS AT HOME : A Popular Account of British Insects, their Structure, Habits and Transformations.
Pàgina 17 - The Three Cathedrals dedicated to St. Paul in London ; their History from the Foundation of the First Building in the Sixth Century to the Proposals for the Adornment of the Present Cathedral. By W. Longman, FSA With numerous Illustrations. Square crown 8vo. 21 s.
Pàgina 17 - The New Testament, illustrated with Wood Engravings after the Early Masters, chiefly of the Italian School. Crown 4to. 63s. cloth, gilt top ; or £5 5s.
Pàgina 18 - CATECHISM of the STEAM ENGINE, in its various Applications to Mines, Mills, Steam Navigation, Railways, and Agriculture. By the same Author. With 89 Woodcuts. Fcp. 6s. HANDBOOK of the STEAM ENGINE.
Pàgina 26 - The OX ; his Diseases and their Treatment : with an Essay on Parturition in the Cow. By JR DOBSON.
Pàgina 19 - ENCYCLOPAEDIA of AGRICULTURE: comprising the Laying-out, Improvement, and Management of Landed Property, and the Cultivation and Economy of the Productions of Agriculture. With 1,100 Woodcuts. 8vo.
Pàgina 11 - Essays on Astronomy. A Series of Papers on Planets and Meteors, the Sun and Sun-surrounding Space, Stars and Star Cloudlets. By RA PROCTOR, BA With 10 Plates and 24 Woodcuts.
Pàgina 21 - An INTRODUCTION to the STUDY of the NEW TESTAMENT, Critical, Exegetical, and Theological. By the Rev. S. DAVIDSON, DD LL.D. 2 vols. 8vo. price 30s. SOME QUESTIONS of the DAY. By the Author of