Outlines of History: Illustrated by Numerous Geographical and Historical Notes and Maps : Embracing : Part I. Ancient History : Part II. Modern HistoryIvison, Blakeman, Taylor & Company, 1854 - 600 pàgines |
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... WESTERN EMPIRE OF THE ROMANS : A. D. 1 TO A. D. 476 . SECTION I. - ROMAN HISTORY FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA TO THE DEATH OF DOMITIAN , THE LAST OF THE TWELVE CESARS : A. D. 96 . L. Earlier and later history of the Empire ...
... WESTERN EMPIRE OF THE ROMANS : A. D. 1 TO A. D. 476 . SECTION I. - ROMAN HISTORY FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA TO THE DEATH OF DOMITIAN , THE LAST OF THE TWELVE CESARS : A. D. 96 . L. Earlier and later history of the Empire ...
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... Western Asia , has its sources in the table lands of Armenia , about ninety miles from the south - eastern borders of the Black Sea . The sources of the Tigris are in the same region , but farther south . The general direction of both ...
... Western Asia , has its sources in the table lands of Armenia , about ninety miles from the south - eastern borders of the Black Sea . The sources of the Tigris are in the same region , but farther south . The general direction of both ...
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... western bank of the Nile , about fifteen miles south from the apex of the Delta - the point whence the waters of the river diverge to enter the sea by different channels . But few relics of its magnificence now occupy the ground where ...
... western bank of the Nile , about fifteen miles south from the apex of the Delta - the point whence the waters of the river diverge to enter the sea by different channels . But few relics of its magnificence now occupy the ground where ...
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... and running in a sout ! we ly direction enters the Arabian Sea near the western extremity of Hindostan . & Niebuhr's Ancient Hist , i . 55 . CHAPTER II . THE FABULOUS AND LEGENDARY PERIOD OF GRECIAN CHAP . I. ] 19 EARLY AGES .
... and running in a sout ! we ly direction enters the Arabian Sea near the western extremity of Hindostan . & Niebuhr's Ancient Hist , i . 55 . CHAPTER II . THE FABULOUS AND LEGENDARY PERIOD OF GRECIAN CHAP . I. ] 19 EARLY AGES .
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... western Hel ' las , and along the northern and north - western shores of the Moréa . 4. The mountains of Greece are of the Alpine character CHAP . II ] 21 GRECIAN HISTORY .
... western Hel ' las , and along the northern and north - western shores of the Moréa . 4. The mountains of Greece are of the Alpine character CHAP . II ] 21 GRECIAN HISTORY .
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Pàgina 414 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait ; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And winter barricades the realms of Frost ; He comes, nor want nor cold his course delay; — Hide, blushing Glory, hide Pultowa's day...
Pàgina 38 - Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt...
Pàgina 182 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Pàgina 13 - ... to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day, and over the night, to be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years.
Pàgina 182 - This was the most unkindest cut of all ; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitors...
Pàgina 328 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Pàgina 39 - And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
Pàgina 40 - And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD : for he had nine hundred chariots of iron ; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
Pàgina 59 - Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.
Pàgina 63 - Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.