Outlines of History: With Original Tables, Chronological, Genealogical and LiteraryClaxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger., 1870 - 238 من الصفحات |
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... Boeotia , situated in a fruitful plain at the foot of Mount Citharon . In the confi- dence of peace , a Spartan general , by a bold stratagem , had gained pos- session of the Theban citadel . The seizure was declared unjust at Sparta ...
... Boeotia , situated in a fruitful plain at the foot of Mount Citharon . In the confi- dence of peace , a Spartan general , by a bold stratagem , had gained pos- session of the Theban citadel . The seizure was declared unjust at Sparta ...
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... Boeotia , represents this school or group . His works consist of the following two large poems : First , the " Theogonia , " a history in verse , of the origin of the gods and the creation of the world . Second , " Works and Days , " a ...
... Boeotia , represents this school or group . His works consist of the following two large poems : First , the " Theogonia , " a history in verse , of the origin of the gods and the creation of the world . Second , " Works and Days , " a ...
الصفحة 119
... Boeotia , sprung from a family who for several generations had shown a special talent for music and poetry . His brilliant genius soon made him known wherever the language of Hellas was understood . He was invited to Syracuse by Hiero ...
... Boeotia , sprung from a family who for several generations had shown a special talent for music and poetry . His brilliant genius soon made him known wherever the language of Hellas was understood . He was invited to Syracuse by Hiero ...
الصفحة 121
... Bœotia . He visited Italy , and spent some time at Rome , lecturing there on philosophy , as early as the reign of Domitian . His great work is entitled " Parallel Lives , " and consists of biographies of forty - six eminent Greek and ...
... Bœotia . He visited Italy , and spent some time at Rome , lecturing there on philosophy , as early as the reign of Domitian . His great work is entitled " Parallel Lives , " and consists of biographies of forty - six eminent Greek and ...
الصفحة 174
... Boeotia , where they were received with open arms by the inhabitants , and Mar- donius naturally already faucied himself the satrap of a country incorporated with the Persian Empire . Battle . In September , 479 , near PLATÆÆ ...
... Boeotia , where they were received with open arms by the inhabitants , and Mar- donius naturally already faucied himself the satrap of a country incorporated with the Persian Empire . Battle . In September , 479 , near PLATÆÆ ...
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الصفحة 167 - An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, infra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels be strong enough ; for I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it three...
الصفحة 136 - Shakspeare is the chief of all Poets hitherto ; the greatest intellect who, in our recorded world, has left record of himself in the way of Literature. On the whole, I know not such a power of vision, such a faculty of thought, if we take all the characters of it, in any other man. Such a calmness of depth; placid joyous strength; all things imaged in that great soul of his so true and clear, as in a tranquil unfathomable sea!
الصفحة 167 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
الصفحة 189 - The human avalanche, which for thirteen years had alarmed the nations from the Danube to the Ebro, from the Seine to the Po, rested beneath the sod or toiled under the yoke of slavery ; the forlorn hope of the German migrations had performed its duty ; the homeless people of the Cimbri and their comrades were no more.
الصفحة 139 - ... our sage and serious poet Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas...
الصفحة 146 - According to the legend, the first of the Christian emperors was healed of the leprosy, and purified in the waters of baptism, by St Silvester, the Roman bishop ; and never was physician more gloriously recompensed. His royal proselyte withdrew from the seat and patrimony of St Peter ; declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the East ; and resigned to the popes the free and perpetual sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West f . This fiction was productive of the most...
الصفحة 132 - ... special stamp of either calling, uniting Hellenic culture with the fullest national feeling of a Roman, an accomplished speaker and of graceful manners — Publius Scipio won the hearts of soldiers and of women, of his countrymen and of the Spaniards, of his rivals in the senate and of his greater Carthaginian antagonist.
الصفحة 29 - The patriarch appears here as the. head of a small confederacy of chiefs, powerful enough to venture on a long pursuit to the head of the valley of the Jordan, to attack with success a large force, and not only to rescue Lot, but to roll back for a time the stream of northern immigration. His high position is seen in the gratitude of the people, and the dignity with which he refuses the character of a hireling. That it did...
الصفحة 82 - ALRASCHID, a celebrated caliph of the Saracens, ascended the throne in 786, and was the most potent prince of his race, ruling over territories extending from Egypt to Khorassan. He gained many splendid victories over the Greek emperors, and obtained immense renown lor his bravery, magnificence, and love of letters ; but he was cruel and tyrannical. D. 808. HARPER, ROBERT GOODLOK, was a native of Virginia, but when very young removed with his parents to North Carolina.
الصفحة 77 - ... Trade Settlements. — The reign of James I. is signalized by the commencement of that system of colonization which has resulted in the establishment of the English race in almost every quarter of the globe. In the year 1607 Jamestown, so named in honor of the king, was founded in Virginia. This was the first permanent English settlement within the limits of the United States. In 1620 some Separatists, or Pilgrims, who had found in Holland a temporary refuge from persecution, pushed across the...