Brief History of Ancient Peoples: With Some Account of Their Monuments, Institutions, Arts, Manners and CustomsAmerican Book Company, 1881 - 312 עמודים |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Brief History of Ancient Peoples <span dir=ltr>Joel Dorman Steele</span>,<span dir=ltr>Esther Baker Steele</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2015 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Ahura Mazda Alexander ancient army Asia Asshur Asshurbanipal Assyrian Athenian Athens Augustus Babylon Babylonian battle beautiful became body bronze Cæsar called Carthage century B. C. Chaldean chariot civilization conquered consul court custom Cyrus death decemvirs deities dynasty Egypt Egyptian emperor empire enemy Etruscans Euripides famous father favorite feet festivals finally formed Forum friends Gauls glory goddess gods gold golden Grecian Greece Greek Hannibal head helots Herodotus honor horse hundred Italy king land Latin Macedon magnificent Marathon marble Marius Medes monuments mummy nations Nile Nineveh noble painted palace patricians Peloponnesian war Pericles Persian Phoenician plebeians poet Pompey priests province pyramid religion rich Roman Rome royal sacred sculptured senate sent slaves Socrates soldiers Sophocles Spartan statue stone tablets temple Thebes Themistocles thousand throne Tiber tomb took tribes walls wine worship
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 210 - And still his name sounds stirring Unto the men of Rome As the trumpet-blast that cries to them To charge the Volscian home, And wives still pray to Juno For boys with hearts as bold As his who kept the bridge so well In the brave days of old.
עמוד 78 - The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
עמוד 111 - When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path. What you do not like, when done to yourself, do not do to others.
עמוד 160 - Miiller maintains that the story of the siege of Troy is a development of this simple Vedic myth, and is " but a repetition of the daily siege of the East by the Solar powers that every evening are robbed of their brightest treasures in the west.
עמוד 96 - And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace; where were white, green, and blue hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black marble.
עמוד xvii - This is an entirely new work written expressly to meet the demand for a compact and acceptable text-book on General History for high schools, academies, and private schools.
עמוד 54 - Palace of Asshurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria, to whom the god Nebo and the goddess Tashmit (the goddess of wisdom) have given ears to hear, and eyes to see what is the foundation of government. They have revealed to the kings, my predecessors, this cuneiform writing, the manifestation of the god Nebo, the god of supreme intelligence. I have written it upon tablets, I have signed it, I have placed it in my palace for the instruction of my subjects.
עמוד 48 - I engaged. I defeated them. The ranks of their warriors in fighting the battle were beaten down as if by the tempest. Their carcases covered the valleys and the tops of the mountains.
עמוד 275 - The lines must have rung in the poet's ears like a sad refrain. The Digentia lost its charm; he could not see its crystal waters for the shadows of Charon's rueful stream. The prattle of his loved Bandusian spring could not wean his thoughts from the vision of his other...
עמוד 173 - ... transfixed and awestruck in his presence — there was a solemn thrill in his words, such as his hearers could compare to nothing but the mysterious sensation produced by the clash of drum and cymbal in the worship of the great Mother of the Gods — the head swam, the heart leaped at the sound — tears rushed from their eyes; and they felt that, unless they tore themselves away from that fascinated circle, they should sit down at his feet and grow old in listening to the marvellous music of...