Herodotus, Volumen1Edward Earle. William Fry, printer., 1814 |
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... rising in winter , accuses Herodotus of a mistake in the passage before us . Wesseling had the same idea , who nevertheless has not solved the difficulty . The truth is , there were two rivers of this name , the one rising from the ...
... rising in winter , accuses Herodotus of a mistake in the passage before us . Wesseling had the same idea , who nevertheless has not solved the difficulty . The truth is , there were two rivers of this name , the one rising from the ...
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... rise to the tradition that she passed , on a ram , the sea which bears her name . Pliny , after reciting a number of facts , to prove the friend- ship of dolphins for man , infers that the tale of Arion may be believed . Upon the base ...
... rise to the tradition that she passed , on a ram , the sea which bears her name . Pliny , after reciting a number of facts , to prove the friend- ship of dolphins for man , infers that the tale of Arion may be believed . Upon the base ...
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... rise , A tortoise boiling with a lamb supplies , Where brass below and brass above it lies . XLVIII . They wrote down the communication of the Pythian , and returned to Sardis . Of the answers which his other messengers brought on their ...
... rise , A tortoise boiling with a lamb supplies , Where brass below and brass above it lies . XLVIII . They wrote down the communication of the Pythian , and returned to Sardis . Of the answers which his other messengers brought on their ...
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... rising in a mountain of 101 Drink water only . ] - Xenophon , as well as Herodotus , in- forms us , that the Persians drank only water : nevertheless our historian , in another place , says , that the Persians were addict- ed to wine ...
... rising in a mountain of 101 Drink water only . ] - Xenophon , as well as Herodotus , in- forms us , that the Persians drank only water : nevertheless our historian , in another place , says , that the Persians were addict- ed to wine ...
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... rising in the mountain , which is sacred to Cybele , finally empties itself into the sea , near the city Phocæa . Here Cyrus found the Lydians prepared for the encounter ; and as he greatly feared the impression of their cavalry , by ...
... rising in the mountain , which is sacred to Cybele , finally empties itself into the sea , near the city Phocæa . Here Cyrus found the Lydians prepared for the encounter ; and as he greatly feared the impression of their cavalry , by ...
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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.