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... assert that Herodotus did not recite his history at Athens at all , but at Olympus . He might recite it at both places . Having been present for the purpose at Olympus first , he might afterwards proceed to Athens to appear at the ...
... assert that Herodotus did not recite his history at Athens at all , but at Olympus . He might recite it at both places . Having been present for the purpose at Olympus first , he might afterwards proceed to Athens to appear at the ...
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... assert that he died at Pella in Macedonia . Pella however gave no name to Herodotus , but became afterwards famous for being long the residence of Euripides , who from this circumstance has frequently been called the Bard of Pella : an ...
... assert that he died at Pella in Macedonia . Pella however gave no name to Herodotus , but became afterwards famous for being long the residence of Euripides , who from this circumstance has frequently been called the Bard of Pella : an ...
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... asserted that he died at Athens . Of this the question of M. Larcher , as he has applied it from Dodwell , seems a ... asserts unequivocally , " This earth contains in its bosom , Herodotus son of Lyxes , a Dorian by birth , but the most ...
... asserted that he died at Athens . Of this the question of M. Larcher , as he has applied it from Dodwell , seems a ... asserts unequivocally , " This earth contains in its bosom , Herodotus son of Lyxes , a Dorian by birth , but the most ...
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... asserting my belief , that it must be He- rodotus , compounded of dotus and the Greek name of Juno . There are , however , some ... assert that the Phoenicians were the original 26 CLIO . Among other things, it will be necessary to in- ...
... asserting my belief , that it must be He- rodotus , compounded of dotus and the Greek name of Juno . There are , however , some ... assert that the Phoenicians were the original 26 CLIO . Among other things, it will be necessary to in- ...
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Herodotus. of the Persians assert that the Phoenicians were the original exciters of contention . This nation migrated from the borders of the Red Sea to the place of their present settlement , and ... assert that the Phoenicians were ...
Herodotus. of the Persians assert that the Phoenicians were the original exciters of contention . This nation migrated from the borders of the Red Sea to the place of their present settlement , and ... assert that the Phoenicians were ...
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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.