Croesus, was, through ignorance of his person, about to kill him. The king, overwhelmed by his calamity, took no care to avoid the blow or escape death ; but his dumb son, when he saw the violent designs of the Persian, overcome with astonishment and... Darwinism Tested by Language - Page 183by Sir Frederick Bateman - 1877 - 224 pagesFull view - About this book
| Herodotus - 1812 - 478 pages
...he saw the violent designs of the Persian, overcome with astonishment and terror, exclaimed aloud, " Oh, man, do not kill Croesus '" ! " This was the first...faculty of speech from this event, as long as he lived. LXXXVI. The Persians thus obtained possession of Sardis, and made Crresus captive, when he had reigned... | |
| Herodotus - 1814 - 422 pages
...Persian, overcome with astonishment and terror, exclaimed aloud, "Oh, man, do not kill Croesus1"!" This was the first time he had ever articulated, but he...faculty of speech from this event, as long as he lived. LXXXVI. The Persians thus obtained possession ef Sardis, and made Croesus captive, when he had reigned... | |
| Herodotus - 1821 - 482 pages
...Persian, overcome with astonishment and terror, exclaimed aloud, " Oh, man, do not kill Croesus ! " m This was the first time he had ever articulated, but he...faculty of speech from this event, as long as he lived. LXXXVI. The Persians thus obtained possession of Sardis, and made Croesus captive, when he had reigned... | |
| Charles Edward Herbert Orpen - 1827 - 438 pages
...he saw the violent designs of the Persian, overcome with astonishment and terror, exclaimed aloud, 'Oh! man, do not kill Croesus.' This was the first...faculty of speech, from this event, as long as he lived."—Beloe's Herodottti, Clio. Ixxxv. From this account of the circumstances, it appears, that... | |
| Herodotus - 1828 - 204 pages
...he saw the violent designs of the Persian, overcome with astonishment and terror, exclaime3 aloud, " Oh, man, do not kill Croesus !" This was the first...faculty of speech from this event, as long as he lived. LXXXVI. The Persians thus obtained possession of Sardis, and made Croesus captive, when he had teigued... | |
| Charles Edward Herbert Orpen - 1836 - 688 pages
...Persian, overcome with astonishment and terror, exclaimed aloud, ' Oh ! man, do not kill Crcesus.' This was the first time he had ever articulated, but he...of speech, from this event as long as he lived."* From this account of the circumstances, it appears that the young man was not Deaf at all, for it makes... | |
| 1841 - 214 pages
...astonishment and terror, exclaimed aloud, " Oh, man, do not kill Crœsus !" This was the first time, he adds, he had ever articulated, but he retained the faculty of speech from this event as long as he lived. This event also is, by Herodotus, made to fulfil the prediction of an oracle, which Crœsns j had consulted... | |
| Charles Rollin - 1844 - 372 pages
...astonishment and terror exclaimed aloud, "Oh man, do not kill Croesus I" This 'was the first time, he adds, he had ever articulated, but he retained the faculty of Speech from this event as long as he lived This event also is, by Herodotus, made to fulfil the prediction of an oracle, which Croesus had consulted—... | |
| William Sweetser - 1850 - 456 pages
...he saw the violent designs of the Persian, overcome with astonishment and terror, exclaimed aloud, ' Oh, man, do not kill Croesus !' This was the first...faculty of speech from this event as long as he lived." We have instances enough, however, and of a less apocryphal character, of the remarkable curative effects... | |
| Edward Farr - 1850 - 346 pages
...astonishment and terror, exclaimed aloud, "Oh man, do not kill Crossus!" This was the first time, he adds, he had ever articulated, but he retained the faculty of speech from this event as long as he lived. This event also is, by Herodotus, made to fulfil the prediction of an oracle, which Crossus had consulted... | |
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