Herodotus, Volumen1Edward Earle. William Fry, printer., 1814 |
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... less reluctance in soliciting per- mission to prefix your Lordship's name to its second appearance . I am also proud and happy to have this opportunity of expressing my gratitude , for the friendship with which your Lordship has for ...
... less reluctance in soliciting per- mission to prefix your Lordship's name to its second appearance . I am also proud and happy to have this opportunity of expressing my gratitude , for the friendship with which your Lordship has for ...
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... the hill , the approach to which seemed so steep and difficult ; he must have been a favourite with many readers , and endured by more ; his labour has not totally been lost , and more or less of reputation must be attached to PREFACE ...
... the hill , the approach to which seemed so steep and difficult ; he must have been a favourite with many readers , and endured by more ; his labour has not totally been lost , and more or less of reputation must be attached to PREFACE ...
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Herodotus. and more or less of reputation must be attached to his name . I am not unwilling to acknowledge , that when the first Edition of this Book was published , I laboured under various difficulties , and I dismissed it to the world ...
Herodotus. and more or less of reputation must be attached to his name . I am not unwilling to acknowledge , that when the first Edition of this Book was published , I laboured under various difficulties , and I dismissed it to the world ...
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... less perfect impression of which has been favourably re- ceived ) more worthy of the public attention , have not been altogether vain . That many errors may yet re- main , I am not without apprehensions ; and that it may be the ...
... less perfect impression of which has been favourably re- ceived ) more worthy of the public attention , have not been altogether vain . That many errors may yet re- main , I am not without apprehensions ; and that it may be the ...
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... be no doubt concerning the claim of Herodotus to an early distinction of this kind . His matter is no less curious than diversified , and his history , as far as his own knowledge and diligent researches could make it X INTRODUCTION .
... be no doubt concerning the claim of Herodotus to an early distinction of this kind . His matter is no less curious than diversified , and his history , as far as his own knowledge and diligent researches could make it X INTRODUCTION .
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Página 238 - This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Página 67 - Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims play ! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day.
Página 181 - God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Página 326 - And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat : and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness : And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land...
Página 234 - Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Página 328 - And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves : because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews ; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Página 387 - And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father : and the physicians embalmed Israel. And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed : and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
Página 131 - His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes ; And while he heaven and earth defied Changed his hand and checked his pride. He chose a mournful muse Soft pity to infuse : He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And weltering in his blood...
Página 68 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : | yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Página 403 - And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria, And the fourth river is Euphrates.