The History of Greece from the Earliest Times to A.D. 1833Religious Tract Society, 1848 - 382 pages |
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... miles long , and 140 miles in its greatest breadth . It lies between the 36th and 40th degrees of north latitude , within the 20th and 25th degrees of east longitude . Greece is separated , on the north , by the Cambunian mountains from ...
... miles long , and 140 miles in its greatest breadth . It lies between the 36th and 40th degrees of north latitude , within the 20th and 25th degrees of east longitude . Greece is separated , on the north , by the Cambunian mountains from ...
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... miles long , and with a breadth varying from four to eight miles , adjoined the isthmus of Corinth , and contained one city - Megara . 7. Baotia , a mountainous country , and abounding with marshes fifty - two miles long , and from ...
... miles long , and with a breadth varying from four to eight miles , adjoined the isthmus of Corinth , and contained one city - Megara . 7. Baotia , a mountainous country , and abounding with marshes fifty - two miles long , and from ...
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... miles in length and in breadth . 11. Ætolia is one of the largest but least cultivated countries of Greece , about fifty miles long , and thirty miles broad . Its cities are Calydon and Thermus . The Evenus and the Achelous , the ...
... miles in length and in breadth . 11. Ætolia is one of the largest but least cultivated countries of Greece , about fifty miles long , and thirty miles broad . Its cities are Calydon and Thermus . The Evenus and the Achelous , the ...
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... miles long , and from twelve to twenty - four miles broad . The most remarkable cities are Pellene , Dyme , and Patræ . 19. Sicyonia is the name of a small territory sixteen miles long , and eight miles broad , containing the cities of ...
... miles long , and from twelve to twenty - four miles broad . The most remarkable cities are Pellene , Dyme , and Patræ . 19. Sicyonia is the name of a small territory sixteen miles long , and eight miles broad , containing the cities of ...
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... miles from Athens . The plain of Marathon , stretching for five miles along the shore , and turning inland a little more than two miles , was bounded by the slopes of Pentelicus and Parnes on the west , with a marsh at one extremity ...
... miles from Athens . The plain of Marathon , stretching for five miles along the shore , and turning inland a little more than two miles , was bounded by the slopes of Pentelicus and Parnes on the west , with a marsh at one extremity ...
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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.