A Manual of Ancient and Modern History ...D. Appleton, 1845 - 797 pagini |
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Pagina 10
... passed the straits of Bab - el - Man'deb , and , coasting the African continent , discovered the passage round the Cape of Good Hope , two thousand years before the rediscovery of it by Diaz and Vasco de Gama . The expedition returned ...
... passed the straits of Bab - el - Man'deb , and , coasting the African continent , discovered the passage round the Cape of Good Hope , two thousand years before the rediscovery of it by Diaz and Vasco de Gama . The expedition returned ...
Pagina 24
... passed over the Euphrátes between the two palaces on the opposite banks , which , we are assured , were further connected by means of a tunnel . The length of the bridge was about a furlong , but its breadth only thirty feet ; a long ...
... passed over the Euphrátes between the two palaces on the opposite banks , which , we are assured , were further connected by means of a tunnel . The length of the bridge was about a furlong , but its breadth only thirty feet ; a long ...
Pagina 65
... passed on a bridge of boats ; and the Persians advanced without opposition through a difficult and barren country , until they had advanced beyond the reach of their sup- plies . Daríus was forced to retreat , and his safety was ...
... passed on a bridge of boats ; and the Persians advanced without opposition through a difficult and barren country , until they had advanced beyond the reach of their sup- plies . Daríus was forced to retreat , and his safety was ...
Pagina 74
... passed away , when insurrections broke out in the African provinces , and in the colonies of Sicily and Sardinia . ) But the Carthaginian senate showed itself equal to the crisis ; by a course of policy in which firmness was tempered by ...
... passed away , when insurrections broke out in the African provinces , and in the colonies of Sicily and Sardinia . ) But the Carthaginian senate showed itself equal to the crisis ; by a course of policy in which firmness was tempered by ...
Pagina 93
... passed over into Asia Minor , and founded the colonies of Iónia , Æólia , and Cária . The jealousy of the Athenians was soon proved to be derived from reasonable fears . In the reign of Códrus the Dorians passed the bound- aries of ...
... passed over into Asia Minor , and founded the colonies of Iónia , Æólia , and Cária . The jealousy of the Athenians was soon proved to be derived from reasonable fears . In the reign of Códrus the Dorians passed the bound- aries of ...
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Pagina 40 - So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets. And it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
Pagina 178 - John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire...
Pagina 179 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul : neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own } but they had all things common.
Pagina 179 - Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, and cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, las he was] calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
Pagina 171 - But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.
Pagina 44 - Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her.
Pagina 759 - ... where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? and let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Pagina 587 - 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: The...
Pagina 179 - And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
Pagina 42 - And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king.