A Brief History of Ancient Peoples: With an Account of Their Monuments, Literature, and MannersA.S. Barnes, 1881 - 312 עמודים |
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afterward Ahura Mazda Alexander ancient army Asia Minor Asshur Assyrian Athenian Athens Augustus Babylon Babylonian battle beautiful became body bronze built Cæsar called Carthage Carthaginians centuries Chaldean chariot civilization conquered consul court Cyrus death decemvirs deities dynasty early Egypt Egyptian emblems emperor empire enemy Etruscans famous father favorite feet fleet friends Gauls glory goddess gods gold golden Grecian Greece Greek Hannibal head Hellas helots Herodotus honor horse hundred Italy king land Latin Macedon magnificent Marathon marble Marius monarch mummy nations Nile Nineveh noble palace patricians Peloponnesian War Pericles Persian Phoenician plebeians poet Pompey priests province pyramid Rameses Rameses II religion rich Roman Rome royal sacred Scene sculptures senate sent siege slaves Socrates soldiers Sophocles Spartan statue stone tablets temple Thebes Themistocles thousand throne Tiber tombs took tribes walls worship
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עמוד 212 - 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 162 - Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread.
עמוד 165 - Oh, our .(Eschylus, the thunderous, How he drove the bolted breath Through the cloud, to wedge it ponderous In the gnarled oak beneath ! Oh, our Sophocles, the royal, Who was born to monarch's place And who made the whole world loyal, Less by kingly power than grace 1 _l zn. Our Euripides, the human, With his droppings of warm tears, And his touches of things common Till they rose to touch the spheres...
עמוד 300 - In many places they are so narrow that they may be crossed at one stride : where they are wider, a raised stepping-stone, and sometimes two or three, have been placed in the centre of the crossing.
עמוד 260 - Their sufferings at their execution were aggravated by insult and mockery, for some were disguised in the skins of wild beasts, and worried to death by dogs ; some were crucified ; and others were wrapped in pitched shirts, and set on fire when the day closed, that they might serve as lights to illuminate the night.
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 carcasses covered the valleys and the tops of the mountains. I cut off their heads. Of the battlements of their cities I made heaps, like mounds of earth (?). Their moveables, their wealth, and their valuables I plundered to a countless amount.
עמוד 313 - But just as we can influence the actions of a man by appeals to his understanding, so that it may be fairly said of such an one, 'he cannot lie,' and of another that it is easier to turn the sun from its course than Fabricius from the path of duty: so we may imbue the hearts of our own countrymen with the doctrine of individualism in suchwise that it may sometime be said of England
עמוד 111 - A man should say, I am not concerned that I have no place, I am concerned how I may fit myself for one. I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.
עמוד 111 - He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.