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Página viii
... cause , rather than to any disapprobation of such works , in those by whom they might have been performed . Perhaps the literary rank assigned in this country to translators , is not elevated enough to gratify the ambition of the ...
... cause , rather than to any disapprobation of such works , in those by whom they might have been performed . Perhaps the literary rank assigned in this country to translators , is not elevated enough to gratify the ambition of the ...
Página xiv
... cause of Literature . The labour of almost three years is now sub- mitted to his judgment ; for which , though I have not conscious dignity enough to dismiss it & without any apprehension , I request no further indulgence than xiv ...
... cause of Literature . The labour of almost three years is now sub- mitted to his judgment ; for which , though I have not conscious dignity enough to dismiss it & without any apprehension , I request no further indulgence than xiv ...
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Herodotus. Of the ardour with which he was inspired in the cause of liberty , we have strong and unequivocal testimony . First , in his exile from his country , whether voluntary or not ; in various animated ex- pressions to this effect ...
Herodotus. Of the ardour with which he was inspired in the cause of liberty , we have strong and unequivocal testimony . First , in his exile from his country , whether voluntary or not ; in various animated ex- pressions to this effect ...
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... cause of Io's arrival in Egypt , and the first act of violence which was committed . In process of time , certain Grecians , concerning whose country writers disagree , but who were really of Crete , are reported to have touched at Tyre ...
... cause of Io's arrival in Egypt , and the first act of violence which was committed . In process of time , certain Grecians , concerning whose country writers disagree , but who were really of Crete , are reported to have touched at Tyre ...
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... the frequent objects of the historian's animadversions . Plutarch was a Beotian , and thought it indispensably incumbent upon him to vindi- cate the cause of his countrymen . affront . The Greeks , on the contrary , to CLIO . 31.
... the frequent objects of the historian's animadversions . Plutarch was a Beotian , and thought it indispensably incumbent upon him to vindi- cate the cause of his countrymen . affront . The Greeks , on the contrary , to CLIO . 31.
Términos y frases comunes
Ægypt Ægyptians affirm afterwards Alyattes amongst ancient animals appears Asia assert Astyages Athenians Athens authority Babylon Bacchus betwixt body called Candaules Carians celebrated ceremonies chap crocodile Croesus cubits custom Cyaxares Cyrus death Deioces deity Delphi Diodorus Diodorus Siculus divinity Egypt enquiry esteemed father female formerly gods gold Grecian Greece Greeks Gyges Harpagus Hercules Herodotus historian Homer honour hundred informed inhabitants Ionians island Jupiter king Lacedæmonians Larcher learned Libya Lycurgus Lydians manner Massagetæ means Medes Memphis ment mention Milesians Minerva mountains nations never Nile observed occasion opinion oracle Pactyas particular passage Pelasgians Persians person Pisistratus Pliny Plutarch possession present priests received reign remarkable rendered Rennell replied river sacred sacrifice Sardis says Scythians seems sent Siculus Solon Sparta speak stadia Strabo supposed temple Thebes thing tion translation vessel whilst wine woman women word writers
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Página 65 - Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims play ! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day.
Página 254 - 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 196 - 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 356 - The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
Página 361 - 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 259 - 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 138 - 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 359 - 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 138 - And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. The master saw the madness rise, 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...
Página 423 - The art of medicine in Egypt is thus exercised: one physician is confined to one disease; there are of course a great number who practise this art; some attend to disorders of the eyes, others to those of the head; some take care of the teeth, others are conversant with all diseases of the bowels; whilst many attend to the cure of maladies which are less conspicuous.