The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians, Volume 1G. Long, 1830 |
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... continued for ever , so much happiness and tranquillity did they enjoy under it . T A just idea of the con- querors of antiquity . To this amiable and salutary government , let us op- pose the idea which the sacred writings give us of ...
... continued for ever , so much happiness and tranquillity did they enjoy under it . T A just idea of the con- querors of antiquity . To this amiable and salutary government , let us op- pose the idea which the sacred writings give us of ...
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... continued series of ancient history , to extract from the Greek and Latin au- thors all that I shall judge most useful and entertaining with respect to the transactions , and most instructive with regard to the reflections . I wish it ...
... continued series of ancient history , to extract from the Greek and Latin au- thors all that I shall judge most useful and entertaining with respect to the transactions , and most instructive with regard to the reflections . I wish it ...
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... continued several days . The first day in the morning , a race was run on foot , each of the runners car- rying a lighted torch in his hand , which they exchanged continually with each other without interrupting their race . They ...
... continued several days . The first day in the morning , a race was run on foot , each of the runners car- rying a lighted torch in his hand , which they exchanged continually with each other without interrupting their race . They ...
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... continued many days . Those who were initiated , mimicked whatever the poets had thought fit to feign of the god Bacchus . They co- vered themselves with the skins of wild beasts , carried a thyrsus in their hands , a kind of pike with ...
... continued many days . Those who were initiated , mimicked whatever the poets had thought fit to feign of the god Bacchus . They co- vered themselves with the skins of wild beasts , carried a thyrsus in their hands , a kind of pike with ...
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... continued to Eleusis . The way leading to it was called the sacred way , and lay across a bridge over the river Cephisus . This procession was very nu- merous , and generally consisted of thirty thousand persons . The temple of Eleusis ...
... continued to Eleusis . The way leading to it was called the sacred way , and lay across a bridge over the river Cephisus . This procession was very nu- merous , and generally consisted of thirty thousand persons . The temple of Eleusis ...
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Page 348 - Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia...
Page 349 - Who is there among you of all his people ? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.
Page 104 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs : but the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...
Page 289 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 350 - After this I saw in the night visions and behold a fourth beast dreadful and terrible and strong exceedingly, and it had great iron teeth, it devoured and brake in pieces and stamped the residue with the feet of it, and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it and it had ten horns.
Page 350 - I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them ; until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High ; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
Page 141 - WOE to them that go down to Egypt for help ; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many ; and in horsemen, because they are very strong ; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD...
Page 289 - And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing : and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth : and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou...
Page 339 - Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this ; but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of Heaven, and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concuhines, have drunk wine in them ; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know : and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified...
Page 339 - 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.