Herodotus, Volum 2L. Hansard & Sons, 1812 |
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Pàgina 1
... equal degree of credit with Herodotus . Sesostris has been differently named : Tacitus calls him Rhampses ; Scaliger , both Rhamesses and Ægyp- tus . He is named Sesostris in Diodorus Siculus ; Sesosis in Pliny , & c . - T . VOL . II ...
... equal degree of credit with Herodotus . Sesostris has been differently named : Tacitus calls him Rhampses ; Scaliger , both Rhamesses and Ægyp- tus . He is named Sesostris in Diodorus Siculus ; Sesosis in Pliny , & c . - T . VOL . II ...
Pàgina 15
... equal him . - Diodorus Siculus . 194 Forgave this remonstrance . ] — It does not however ap- pear from hence that Darius was ever in Egypt . The re- sistance of the chief priest might probably be told him , and he might forgive it . It ...
... equal him . - Diodorus Siculus . 194 Forgave this remonstrance . ] — It does not however ap- pear from hence that Darius was ever in Egypt . The re- sistance of the chief priest might probably be told him , and he might forgive it . It ...
Pàgina 41
... equal to contrive , and the industry which persevered to execute , structures like the pyramids , could not but foresee that , however the buildings themselves might , from their solidity and form , defy the effects of time , the out ...
... equal to contrive , and the industry which persevered to execute , structures like the pyramids , could not but foresee that , however the buildings themselves might , from their solidity and form , defy the effects of time , the out ...
Pàgina 74
... equal to one hundred years , and therefore three hundred generations are the same as ten thousand years ; the forty- one generations that remain , make one thousand three hundred and forty years . During the above space of eleven ...
... equal to one hundred years , and therefore three hundred generations are the same as ten thousand years ; the forty- one generations that remain , make one thousand three hundred and forty years . During the above space of eleven ...
Pàgina 90
... equal to the work.-T. 268 Talent of silver . ] — The silver which the fishery of this lake produced , was appropriated to find the queen with clothes and perfumes . - Larcher . * It is difficult to believe that the course of the Nile ...
... equal to the work.-T. 268 Talent of silver . ] — The silver which the fishery of this lake produced , was appropriated to find the queen with clothes and perfumes . - Larcher . * It is difficult to believe that the course of the Nile ...
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according Ægypt Ægyptians Æsop affirm afterwards Amasis amongst ancient animal Apollo appears Apries Arabian Aristeas army arrived Asia asserted Athenæus authority Babylon Babylonians body brother called Cambyses camels canal chap circumstance cubits custom Cyrus Darius daughter death deity Democedes Diodorus Siculus divine earth Egypt erected Ethiopians father feet gold Greece Greeks Gulph Hercules Herodotus honour horse hundred Hyperboreans Ichthyophagi Indians inhabitants island Issedones king Lacedæmonians lake Larcher learned length Mæandrius magus Major Rennel Memphis mentioned nations never Nile observed opinion oracle Otanes passage Pausanias Periander Persians person Phoenicians Pliny Plutarch Polycrates present Prexaspes priests prince probably Psammitichus pyramid reader reign remarks river sacred Samians Samos satrapy says Scythians seems seen sent Sesostris Smerdis soon speak stone Strabo supposed Syloson talents temple thians thing thousand tion vessel voyage whilst Zopyrus
Passatges populars
Pàgina 138 - O ! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine ; Or find some other way to generate Mankind...
Pàgina 164 - And it came to pass, as. the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold; and said, Whose daughter art thou?
Pàgina 436 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Pàgina 263 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Pàgina 152 - No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things, — What they are, yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You think...
Pàgina 32 - In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
Pàgina 152 - You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age, wretched in both. If it be you that stirs these daughters...
Pàgina 194 - Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man her slave oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom pleased to bless : Still various, and unconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes a lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes...
Pàgina 101 - And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD.
Pàgina 227 - Laud be to God ! — even there my life must end. It hath been prophesied to me many years, I should not die but in Jerusalem ; Which vainly I suppos'd, the Holy Land : — But, bear me to that chamber ; there I'll lie ; In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.