Library of World History: Containing a Record of the Human Race from the Earliest Historical Period to the Present Time; Embracing a General Survey of the Progress of Mankind in National and Social Life, Civil Government, Religion, Literature, Science and Art, Volumen2Western Press Assoc., 1914 |
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Página 451
... Herodotus described an edifice which he called " the palace of Deïoces , " but this is believed to apply to the northern Ecbatana . Polybius says that Ecbatana was an unwalled city in his time , which was in the second century before ...
... Herodotus described an edifice which he called " the palace of Deïoces , " but this is believed to apply to the northern Ecbatana . Polybius says that Ecbatana was an unwalled city in his time , which was in the second century before ...
Página 452
... Herodotus coincides with the ruins at the modern town of Takht - i- Suleiman , in the upper valley of the Saruk , a tributary of the Jag- hetu ; and this is believed to be the site of the ancient northern Ecbat- ana , though only one ...
... Herodotus coincides with the ruins at the modern town of Takht - i- Suleiman , in the upper valley of the Saruk , a tributary of the Jag- hetu ; and this is believed to be the site of the ancient northern Ecbat- ana , though only one ...
Página 464
... Herodotus - the Sigynnæ in the region between the Danube and the Adriatic - claimed to be of Median descent , and this claim was sub- stantiated by the resemblance of their national dress to that of the Medes . Herodotus , in relating ...
... Herodotus - the Sigynnæ in the region between the Danube and the Adriatic - claimed to be of Median descent , and this claim was sub- stantiated by the resemblance of their national dress to that of the Medes . Herodotus , in relating ...
Página 465
... Herodotus's account of the revolt of the Medes under Deïoces corresponds with the date assigned by the As- syrian records for the full and complete Assyrian subjugation of Media . After Sargon's conquest of Media Magna the Medes of that ...
... Herodotus's account of the revolt of the Medes under Deïoces corresponds with the date assigned by the As- syrian records for the full and complete Assyrian subjugation of Media . After Sargon's conquest of Media Magna the Medes of that ...
Página 466
... Herodotus . The follow- ing is a table of the Median kings according to these two Greek writers : MEDIAN KINGS ACCORDING TO CTESIAS . MEDIAN KINGS ACCORDING TO HERODOTUS . Arbaces Maudaces Sosarmus Artycas Arbianes Artæus Artynes 28 ...
... Herodotus . The follow- ing is a table of the Median kings according to these two Greek writers : MEDIAN KINGS ACCORDING TO CTESIAS . MEDIAN KINGS ACCORDING TO HERODOTUS . Arbaces Maudaces Sosarmus Artycas Arbianes Artæus Artynes 28 ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 689 - What I do not wish men to do to me, I also wish not to do to men.
Página 631 - Let her emaciate her body by living voluntarily on pure flowers, roots, and fruit ; but let her not, when her lord is deceased, even pronounce the name of another man. " Let her continue till death forgiving all injuries, performing harsh duties, avoiding every sensual pleasure, and cheerfully practising the incomparable rules of virtue, which have been followed by such women as...
Página 632 - O friend to virtue ! that supreme Spirit, which thou believest one and the same with thyself, resides in thy bosom perpetually, and is an all-knowing inspector of thy goodness or of thy wickedness.
Página 663 - Let no man think lightly of evil, saying in his heart, It will not come nigh unto me. Even by the falling of water-drops a waterpot is filled; the fool becomes full of evil, even if he gather it little by little. Let no man think lightly of good, saying in his heart, It will not come nigh unto me.
Página 663 - Not to commit any sin, to do good, and to purify one's mind, that is the teaching of all the Awakened.
Página 629 - He, whom the mind alone can perceive, whose essence eludes the external organs, who has no visible parts, who exists from eternity, even he, the soul of all beings, whom no being can comprehend, shone forth in person. He, having willed to produce various beings from his own divine substance, first with a thought created the waters, and placed in them a productive seed...
Página 688 - When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it;—this is knowledge.
Página 627 - Vaivasvata reigns, where the secret place of heaven is, where these mighty waters are, there make me immortal ! ' Where life is free, in the third heaven of heavens, where the worlds are radiant, there make me immortal...
Página 688 - For a man to sacrifice to a spirit which does not belong to him is flattery." 2. "To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.
Página 663 - As many kinds of wreaths can be made from a heap of flowers, so many good things may be achieved by a mortal when once he is born.