Herodotus, Volume 1Edward Earle. William Fry, printer., 1814 |
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... render this Work ( a less perfect impression of which has been favourably re- ceived ) more worthy of the public attention , have not been altogether vain . That many errors may yet re- main , I am not without apprehensions ; and that ...
... render this Work ( a less perfect impression of which has been favourably re- ceived ) more worthy of the public attention , have not been altogether vain . That many errors may yet re- main , I am not without apprehensions ; and that ...
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... rendering word for word , to have left the sense as dark as they found it in the original ; but a translator into vernacular language , is a commentator , who is bound , if possible , to explain every thing : his version , in order to ...
... rendering word for word , to have left the sense as dark as they found it in the original ; but a translator into vernacular language , is a commentator , who is bound , if possible , to explain every thing : his version , in order to ...
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... render a just tribute of renown to the many great and wonderful actions , both of Greeks and Barbarians , HERODOTUS ' of Halicarnassus produces these historical researches . 1 The simplicity with which Herodotus commences his His- tory ...
... render a just tribute of renown to the many great and wonderful actions , both of Greeks and Barbarians , HERODOTUS ' of Halicarnassus produces these historical researches . 1 The simplicity with which Herodotus commences his His- tory ...
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... rendered thus : " Herodotus of Halicarnassus produces this work , the result both of his own researches , and of the enquiries made by him of others . " This is certainly paraphrastical , but the criticism is inge- nious , and appears ...
... rendered thus : " Herodotus of Halicarnassus produces this work , the result both of his own researches , and of the enquiries made by him of others . " This is certainly paraphrastical , but the criticism is inge- nious , and appears ...
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... rendered : " It chaunced afterward , that certaine Greekes , whose names they knew not , taking shore and landing at Tyrus , in like manner made a rape of the kinges daughter , named Europa . These were the people of Crete , otherwise ...
... rendered : " It chaunced afterward , that certaine Greekes , whose names they knew not , taking shore and landing at Tyrus , in like manner made a rape of the kinges daughter , named Europa . These were the people of Crete , otherwise ...
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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.