The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians, Nide 6Pub. and sold by Etheridge and Bliss, 1808 |
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Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 61
Sivu 10
... advantage of his absence , revolted a second time , drove all his friends out of the kingdom , seized all his treasures , and conferred the crown on Neoptole- mus , his great uncle . Pyrrhus being thus divested of his dominions , and ...
... advantage of his absence , revolted a second time , drove all his friends out of the kingdom , seized all his treasures , and conferred the crown on Neoptole- mus , his great uncle . Pyrrhus being thus divested of his dominions , and ...
Sivu 23
... advantage of the army's disgust of Pyrrhus , and inflamed them still more by his emissaries , who artfully insinuated that they had acted most shamefully in choosing a stranger for their master , whom interest , and not affection , had ...
... advantage of the army's disgust of Pyrrhus , and inflamed them still more by his emissaries , who artfully insinuated that they had acted most shamefully in choosing a stranger for their master , whom interest , and not affection , had ...
Sivu 36
... advantage she long enjoyed of being the greatest school in all that part of the world , and of hav- ing trained up a vast number of excellent men in liter- ature . It is from thence , in particular , that the church has received some of ...
... advantage she long enjoyed of being the greatest school in all that part of the world , and of hav- ing trained up a vast number of excellent men in liter- ature . It is from thence , in particular , that the church has received some of ...
Sivu 53
... advantage or utility . Nothing ever argued a more profound ignorance of the true use of riches and solid glory , and of whatever else has any just pretensions to the esteem of mankind . But what can we say , when we behold a sacred pro ...
... advantage or utility . Nothing ever argued a more profound ignorance of the true use of riches and solid glory , and of whatever else has any just pretensions to the esteem of mankind . But what can we say , when we behold a sacred pro ...
Sivu 61
... advantage was considered by him as the effect of a peculiar prov- idence in his favour . This last victory , was undoubt- edly the best justification of the title of Nicator , or the conqueror , which he had already assumed , and which ...
... advantage was considered by him as the effect of a peculiar prov- idence in his favour . This last victory , was undoubt- edly the best justification of the title of Nicator , or the conqueror , which he had already assumed , and which ...
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accordingly Achean league Acheans Acheus affairs afterwards Agathocles Agis Alexander alliance allies ambassadors Antigonus Antiochus Appian Aratus Argos arms army arrived Asia assembly attack Attalus battle besieged brother camp carried caused Celosyria Chalcis Cineas citizens Cleomenes commanded consul Corinth crown death declared defeated Demetrius desired dominions Egypt empire employed endeavoured enemy engaged Etolians Eumenes favour fleet forces Gauls gave glory gold greatest Greece Greeks Hannibal honour horse hundred immediately inhabitants Italy Justin king king's kingdom Lacedemonians liberty Lysimachus Macedonia Machanidas manner master Megaleas Nabis obliged occasion passed peace Peloponnesus person Philadelphus Philip Philopemen Plut Polyb Polybius prince provinces Ptolemy Ptolemy Philadelphus Ptolemy Soter Pyrrhus Quintius received reign rendered returned Rhodians Romans Rome seized Seleucus senate sent Sicyon side siege signal soldiers soon Sparta Syria temple Thessaly things thought thousand tion treaty troops twenty tyrant utmost victory whole
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Sivu 174 - ... the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Sivu 148 - And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great dominion.
Sivu 159 - And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm...
Sivu 147 - And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those.
Sivu 569 - And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.
Sivu 569 - The word in the Latin version is very strong, infatua : the import of which is, how prudent soever his counsels may be, make them appear foolish and stupid to Absalom ; and they accordingly did appear BO.
Sivu 163 - But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north...
Sivu 163 - And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the north. So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land.
Sivu 131 - The king likewise having tendered them very considerable presents at their audience of leave, they received them as they before accepted of the crowns; but before they went to the senate, to give an account of their embassy after their arrival at Rome, they deposited all...
Sivu 132 - ... their duty. The republic, however, would not suffer itself to be exceeded in generosity of sentiments. The Senate and people came to a resolution, that the ambassadors, in consideration of the services they had rendered the state, should receive a sum of money equivalent to that they had deposited in the public treasury. This indeed was an amiable contest ; and one is at a loss to know to which of the antagonists to ascribe the victory.