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... Medes and Persians , but what he says hardly merits refuta- tion . Manetho finds very much to blame in what he writes concerning the Egyptians . Thucydides also , in one or two passages , seems obliquely to glance at Herodotus . Strabo ...
... Medes and Persians , but what he says hardly merits refuta- tion . Manetho finds very much to blame in what he writes concerning the Egyptians . Thucydides also , in one or two passages , seems obliquely to glance at Herodotus . Strabo ...
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... Medes a mule shall sit on high , O'er pebbly Hermus " then , soft Lydian , fly ; Fly with all haste ; for safety scorn thy fame , Nor scruple to deserve a coward's name . LVI . When the above verses were communi- cated to Croesus , he ...
... Medes a mule shall sit on high , O'er pebbly Hermus " then , soft Lydian , fly ; Fly with all haste ; for safety scorn thy fame , Nor scruple to deserve a coward's name . LVI . When the above verses were communi- cated to Croesus , he ...
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Herodotus. confident that a mule would never be sovereign of the Medes , and that consequently he could have nothing to fear for himself or his posterity . His first object was to discover which were the most powerful of the Grecian ...
Herodotus. confident that a mule would never be sovereign of the Medes , and that consequently he could have nothing to fear for himself or his posterity . His first object was to discover which were the most powerful of the Grecian ...
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... Medes , though at this period in subjection to Cyrus . The different empires of the Lydians and the Medes were divided by the river Halys 10 ; which rising in a mountain of Armenia , passes through Cilicia , leaving in its progress the ...
... Medes , though at this period in subjection to Cyrus . The different empires of the Lydians and the Medes were divided by the river Halys 10 ; which rising in a mountain of Armenia , passes through Cilicia , leaving in its progress the ...
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... Medes , and brother - in - law to Croesus ; he was now vanquished , and detained in captivity by Cyrus , son of Cambyses . The affinity betwixt Croesus and Astyages was of this nature : Some tumult having arisen among the Scythian No ...
... Medes , and brother - in - law to Croesus ; he was now vanquished , and detained in captivity by Cyrus , son of Cambyses . The affinity betwixt Croesus and Astyages was of this nature : Some tumult having arisen among the Scythian No ...
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Page 138 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure : Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain! The master saw the madness rise, 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...
Page 65 - Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims play ! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day.
Page 196 - 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 359 - 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 361 - 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 254 - 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 65 - 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 428 - 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 259 - 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 356 - The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.