Herodotus, Volume 1Edward Earle. William Fry, printer., 1814 |
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... opinions , on the subject of religion and religious history , which alone deformed his first edition . My thanks , at the same time , are due to various persons ; and , first of all , to Major Rennell , who has condescended to made my ...
... opinions , on the subject of religion and religious history , which alone deformed his first edition . My thanks , at the same time , are due to various persons ; and , first of all , to Major Rennell , who has condescended to made my ...
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... opinion held of them by some of our most accurate and judicious scholars . In translating the Ancient Poets , our coun- trymen have , indeed , very honourably exerted their talents , and their success has proved that our lan- guage is ...
... opinion held of them by some of our most accurate and judicious scholars . In translating the Ancient Poets , our coun- trymen have , indeed , very honourably exerted their talents , and their success has proved that our lan- guage is ...
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... opinion , that we do not possess all his works . But this must ever remain a matter of extreme uncertainty ; yet it becomes me to add , that there are no references pointed out by the learned , to any other of his works , in any ancient ...
... opinion , that we do not possess all his works . But this must ever remain a matter of extreme uncertainty ; yet it becomes me to add , that there are no references pointed out by the learned , to any other of his works , in any ancient ...
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... opinion of Boileau . In a preceding publication , I have before referred to this , but I see no impropriety in its having a place here , in the words of lord Bolingbroke . " To translate servilely into modern language an ancient author ...
... opinion of Boileau . In a preceding publication , I have before referred to this , but I see no impropriety in its having a place here , in the words of lord Bolingbroke . " To translate servilely into modern language an ancient author ...
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... opinion of Kuster , as well as of other eminent critics , that the word History itself , in its original sense , implies accurate enquiry , and stands properly for what the author's own researches demonstrated to him , and what he ...
... opinion of Kuster , as well as of other eminent critics , that the word History itself , in its original sense , implies accurate enquiry , and stands properly for what the author's own researches demonstrated to him , and what he ...
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Page 238 - This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Page 67 - Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims play ! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day.
Page 181 - God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Page 326 - And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat : and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness : And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land...
Page 234 - Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Page 328 - And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves : because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews ; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Page 387 - And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father : and the physicians embalmed Israel. And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed : and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
Page 131 - His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes ; And while he heaven and earth defied Changed his hand and checked his pride. He chose a mournful muse Soft pity to infuse : He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And weltering in his blood...
Page 68 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : | yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Page 403 - And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria, And the fourth river is Euphrates.