The History of Greece from the Earliest Times to A.D. 1833Religious Tract Society, 1848 - 382 pages |
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... forming , with Attica , the Sinus Saronicus , is Argolis , sixty - four miles in length , and varying in breadth from eight to twenty - eight miles . Its principal cities are Argos , Epidaurus , and Mycena . 18. The north coast of the ...
... forming , with Attica , the Sinus Saronicus , is Argolis , sixty - four miles in length , and varying in breadth from eight to twenty - eight miles . Its principal cities are Argos , Epidaurus , and Mycena . 18. The north coast of the ...
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... formed the lake that nearly covered the plain of Orchomenus , by stop- ping the opening through which the river ... forming alliances ; or as a lonely adventurer wandering along the shores of Western Europe . 33. Theseus was a near ...
... formed the lake that nearly covered the plain of Orchomenus , by stop- ping the opening through which the river ... forming alliances ; or as a lonely adventurer wandering along the shores of Western Europe . 33. Theseus was a near ...
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... forming and cultivating the national character . They inspired brave and generous sentiments . They promoted civilisation . But there was no knowledge of the true God . There was no Moral Perfection to com- mand reverence . Religion ...
... forming and cultivating the national character . They inspired brave and generous sentiments . They promoted civilisation . But there was no knowledge of the true God . There was no Moral Perfection to com- mand reverence . Religion ...
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... formed an intimate alliance with another for mutual protection : these alliances , however , were distinct from the union of the Amphictyons , which has been mentioned in connexion with Delphi . The expedition to Troy was . the first ...
... formed an intimate alliance with another for mutual protection : these alliances , however , were distinct from the union of the Amphictyons , which has been mentioned in connexion with Delphi . The expedition to Troy was . the first ...
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... formed them- selves into a hollow square , for the protection of their wives and children : they obtained a free passage through the Spartan ranks ; and escaped into Arcadia . Some of the Messenians , living on the coast , took ship for ...
... formed them- selves into a hollow square , for the protection of their wives and children : they obtained a free passage through the Spartan ranks ; and escaped into Arcadia . Some of the Messenians , living on the coast , took ship for ...
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Page 14 - And filled the illumined groves with ravishment. The nightly hunter, lifting a bright eye Up towards the crescent moon, with grateful heart Called on the lovely wanderer who bestowed That timely light, to share his joyous sport : And hence, a beaming Goddess with her Nymphs, Across the lawn and through the darksome grove (Not unaccompanied with tuneful notes By echo multiplied from rock or cave) Swept in the storm of chase ; as moon and stars Glance rapidly along the clouded heaven, When winds are...
Page 245 - I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection : lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Page 101 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Page 276 - They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony: they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. In the revolution of ten centuries, not a single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind.
Page 15 - ... fanning, as they passed, their wings, Lacked not, for love, fair objects whom they wooed With gentle whisper. Withered boughs grotesque, Stripped of their leaves and twigs by hoary age, From depth of shaggy covert peeping forth In the low vale, or on steep mountain side; And, sometimes, intermixed with stirring horns Of the live deer, or goat's depending beard,— These were the lurking Satyrs, a wild brood Of gamesome Deities; or Pan himself, The simple shepherd's awe-inspiring God!
Page 245 - Know ye not that they which run in a race, run all, but one receiveth the prize ? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.
Page 165 - Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
Page 165 - And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
Page 14 - On the soft grass through half a summer's day, With music lulled his indolent repose: And, in some fit of weariness if he, When his own breath was silent, chanced to...
Page 101 - His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.