The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians, Volume 3Pub. and sold by Etheridge and Bliss, 1808 |
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... provisions , and that were employed in other uses , amounted to three thou- sand . If we reckon but eighty men in each of these vessels , one with another , that made in the whole two hundred and forty thousand men . Thus , when Xerxes ...
... provisions , and that were employed in other uses , amounted to three thou- sand . If we reckon but eighty men in each of these vessels , one with another , that made in the whole two hundred and forty thousand men . Thus , when Xerxes ...
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... provisions for such an immense number of persons , if the historian P had not informed us , that Xerxes had employed four whole years in making preparations for this expedition . We have seen already how many vessels of burden there ...
... provisions for such an immense number of persons , if the historian P had not informed us , that Xerxes had employed four whole years in making preparations for this expedition . We have seen already how many vessels of burden there ...
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... provisions during the whole war , on condition they would make him generalissimo of all the forces both by land and sea . The Lacedemonians were highly offended at such a proposal . Gelon then abated somewhat in his demands , and ...
... provisions during the whole war , on condition they would make him generalissimo of all the forces both by land and sea . The Lacedemonians were highly offended at such a proposal . Gelon then abated somewhat in his demands , and ...
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... provisions , and in large characters engraved upon the rocks and the stones the following words , which he addressed to the Ionians : " Be of our side , ye people of Ionia : come over to the party of your fathers , who exposed their own ...
... provisions , and in large characters engraved upon the rocks and the stones the following words , which he addressed to the Ionians : " Be of our side , ye people of Ionia : come over to the party of your fathers , who exposed their own ...
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... provision : he desired them to aquaint their republic , that all the gold in the world was not capable of tempting the Athen- ians , or of making them desert the defence of the com- mon liberty ; that they had the grateful sense they ...
... provision : he desired them to aquaint their republic , that all the gold in the world was not capable of tempting the Athen- ians , or of making them desert the defence of the com- mon liberty ; that they had the grateful sense they ...
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Page 171 - And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Page 170 - Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.
Page 170 - Messiah be cut off, but not for himself : and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a floXxl, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Page 111 - Themistocles taking him aside, told him that the design he had conceived, was to burn the fleet belonging to the rest of the Grecian states which then lay in a neighbouring port, when Athens would assuredly become mistress of all Greece.
Page 32 - Thus having given vent to his absurd resentment, two bridges were ordered to be built in the place of the former, one for the army to pass over, and the other for the baggage and the beasts of burthen.
Page 432 - I am less sensible of my private affliction than of the honor of my country ; and I see it exposed to eternal infamy by the barbarous advice which is now given you. The Athenians, indeed, merit the worst treatment, and every kind of punishment that can be inflicted on them, for so unjustly declaring war against us ; but have not the gods, the just avengers of crimes, punished them, and...
Page 432 - At that instant a an ancient man, venerable for his great age and gravity, who, in this war, had lost two sons, the only heirs to his name and estate, made his servants carry him to the tribunal for harangues ; and the instant he appeared a profound silence was made.
Page 33 - ... they laid the trunks of trees, cut purposely for that use, and flat boats again over them, fastened and joined together, to serve as a kind of floor Or solid bottom : all which they covered over with earth, and added rails or battlements on each side, that the horses and cattle might not be frightened with seeing the sea in their passage.
Page 542 - Upon this advice, the king rallied his troops, and marched in quest of the enemy; and Clearchus, being returned from pursuing the Persians, advanced to support the camp. The two armies were soon very near each other, when, by a movement made by the king, he seemed to intend to charge the Greeks by their left, who fearing to be surrounded on all sides, wheeled about, and halted with the river on their backs, to prevent their being taken in the rear.
Page 528 - At the same time, several cities in the province of Tissaphernes revolted from their obedience in favour of Cyrus. This incident, which was not an effect of chance, but of the secret practices of that prince, gave birth to a war between the two brothers.