The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians, Volume 5Pub. and sold by Etheridge and Bliss, 1808 |
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... sent from Thessaly to Philip a war horse , a noble , strong , fiery , generous beast , called Bucephalus . The owner would sell him for thirteen talents , about nineteen hundred pounds sterling . The king went into the plains , attended ...
... sent from Thessaly to Philip a war horse , a noble , strong , fiery , generous beast , called Bucephalus . The owner would sell him for thirteen talents , about nineteen hundred pounds sterling . The king went into the plains , attended ...
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... sent home again , his father gave him leave to try what he could do . The young prince , overjoyed at this permission , goes up to Bucephalus , takes hold of his bridle , and turns his head to the sun ; having observed that the thing ...
... sent home again , his father gave him leave to try what he could do . The young prince , overjoyed at this permission , goes up to Bucephalus , takes hold of his bridle , and turns his head to the sun ; having observed that the thing ...
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... sent all De- mosthenes's letters to that prince . But Alexander saw through all his artifices , and thereupon ordered Hecateus , one of his commanders , whom he had sent into Asia for that purpose , to have him assassin- ated , which ...
... sent all De- mosthenes's letters to that prince . But Alexander saw through all his artifices , and thereupon ordered Hecateus , one of his commanders , whom he had sent into Asia for that purpose , to have him assassin- ated , which ...
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... sent a deputation to Alexander , to implore his clemency . Demosthenes was among them ; but he was no sooner arrived at mount Cytheron , than , dreading the anger of that prince , he quitted the embassy , and returned home . Immediately ...
... sent a deputation to Alexander , to implore his clemency . Demosthenes was among them ; but he was no sooner arrived at mount Cytheron , than , dreading the anger of that prince , he quitted the embassy , and returned home . Immediately ...
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... sent them to work as slaves , in Macedonia , for having fought under the barbarian standards against their country , contrary to the express prohibition made by Greece upon that head . Alexander made it his duty and pleasure to share ...
... sent them to work as slaves , in Macedonia , for having fought under the barbarian standards against their country , contrary to the express prohibition made by Greece upon that head . Alexander made it his duty and pleasure to share ...
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Page 131 - And as I was considering, behold, an hegoat came from the west, on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground : and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
Page 290 - Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him ; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the twoleaved gates ; and the gates shall not be shut...
Page 348 - Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there.
Page 291 - I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight ; I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron.
Page 206 - Drangae, the Arachosii, and several other nations, into which his army marched with greater speed than people generally travel. He frequently would pursue an enemy for whole days and nights together, almost without suffering his troops to take any rest. By this prodigious rapidity, he came unawares upon nations, who thought him at a great distance, and subdued them before they had time to put themselves in a posture of defence.
Page 131 - And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns : and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him : and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand. Therefore the he goat waxed very great : and when he was strong, the great horn was broken ; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.
Page 130 - Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns : and the two horns were high ; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
Page 35 - He himself led on the right wing into the river, followed by the rest of the troops ; the trumpets sounding, and the whole army raising cries of joy. The Persians seeing this detachment advance...
Page 348 - This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
Page 20 - ... and who were so much the greater objects of compassion, as they had been no ways concerned in the revolt. He concluded with reminding Alexander, that Thebes, which had given birth to so many gods and heroes, several of whom were that king's ancestors, had also been the seat of his father Philip's rising glory, and like a second native country to him.