The Great Events by Famous Historians ...National Alumni, 1905 - 380 עמודים |
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עמוד xvi
... later account built up on this ; Pliny's picture of the destruction of Pompeii , for Pliny was there and saw the heavens rain down fire , and told of it as no man has done since . So , too , we give a literal translation of the earliest ...
... later account built up on this ; Pliny's picture of the destruction of Pompeii , for Pliny was there and saw the heavens rain down fire , and told of it as no man has done since . So , too , we give a literal translation of the earliest ...
עמוד xxi
... later this creature leaves among his bones chipped flints that narrow to a point ; and the archæologist , taking up the tale , explains that man has become tool - using , he has be- come intelligent beyond all the other animals of earth ...
... later this creature leaves among his bones chipped flints that narrow to a point ; and the archæologist , taking up the tale , explains that man has become tool - using , he has be- come intelligent beyond all the other animals of earth ...
עמוד xxii
... Later still he has discovered how to melt the harder and more useful iron . We say roughly , therefore , that man passed through a stone age , a bronze age , and then an iron age . Somewhere , perhaps in the earliest of these , he began ...
... Later still he has discovered how to melt the harder and more useful iron . We say roughly , therefore , that man passed through a stone age , a bronze age , and then an iron age . Somewhere , perhaps in the earliest of these , he began ...
עמוד xxiv
... later development shall justify present promise , it has still strange tales to tell us in the future . THE RACES OF MAN Turn now from this tracing of our means of knowledge , to speak of the facts they tell us . When our humankind ...
... later development shall justify present promise , it has still strange tales to tell us in the future . THE RACES OF MAN Turn now from this tracing of our means of knowledge , to speak of the facts they tell us . When our humankind ...
עמוד xxv
... later and more strik- ing progress . Since the Egyptians believed in a future life they strove to preserve the body for it , and built ever stronger and more gigantic tombs . They strove to fit the mind for it , and culti- vated virtues ...
... later and more strik- ing progress . Since the Egyptians believed in a future life they strove to preserve the body for it , and built ever stronger and more gigantic tombs . They strove to fit the mind for it , and culti- vated virtues ...
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Ægeus Æneas afterward Alba Amphictyonic Ananda ancient archons army Aryan Asia Astyages Athenian Athens Attica Babylon battle became Blessed body Brahmans brethren brother called caste century chief citizens Clisthenes command Confucius corn Croesus Cyrus Darius daughter debtors Delphi drachmas duke Egypt Egyptian emperor empire enemy father festival field gerahs give gods Grecian Greece Greeks heaven Hellenic Herodotus historians honor hundred India inhabitants king Kusinara Lacedæmonians land later Latins legend Mallas Marathon Medes Mikoto Miltiades mountain nations Nineveh Odysseus Olympic oracle owner patricians period Persians person Phocians Pisistratus plebeians poem possession priests prince put to death Pythian games race reign remained river Roman Rome Romulus Sabine sacred sacrifices saying senate sent ships slave Solon sons Sparta spirit Tarquin temple Theseus thou thousand throne tion took town tribes Trojans troops Troy venerable whole wife worship Xerxes
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עמוד 99 - Jacob selah lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in...
עמוד 100 - ... it came even to pass as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord ; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good ; for his mercy endureth for ever...
עמוד 100 - But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth ? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee ; how much less this house which I have built...
עמוד 171 - I not already, on former occasions, told you that it is in the very nature of all things most near and dear unto us that we must divide ourselves from them, leave them, sever ourselves from them? How, then, Ananda, can this be possible - whereas anything whatever born, brought into being, and organized, contains within itself the inherent necessity of dissolution - how, then, can this be possible, that such a being should not be dissolved. No such condition can exist!
עמוד 100 - And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the Lord. So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud : for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.
עמוד 293 - If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success.
עמוד 276 - if, indeed; the prince be not prince, the minister not minister, the father not father, and the son not son, although I have my revenue, can I enjoy it?
עמוד 347 - The flying Mede, his shaftless broken bow; The fiery Greek, his red pursuing spear; Mountains above, Earth's, Ocean's plain below; Death in the front, Destruction in the rear! Such was the scene— what now remaineth here?
עמוד 280 - Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors, is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.
עמוד 183 - Sometimes this tendency to religious fraternity took a form called an Amphictyony, different from the common festival. A certain number of towns entered into an exclusive religious partnership for the celebration of sacrifices periodically to the god of a particular temple, which was supposed to be the common property and under the common protection of all, though one of the number was often named as permanent administrator; while all other Greeks were excluded.