The Great Events by Famous Historians ...National Alumni, 1905 - 380 עמודים |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 72
עמוד ix
... seem incontrovertible , series of plain facts . And these all pointed toward " THE GREAT EVENTS . " In the first place , the entire American public , from top to bottom of the social ladder , are at this moment anxious to read history ...
... seem incontrovertible , series of plain facts . And these all pointed toward " THE GREAT EVENTS . " In the first place , the entire American public , from top to bottom of the social ladder , are at this moment anxious to read history ...
עמוד xi
... seem closed against the ordinary man . Why ? In the first place , the works of the masters are too voluminous . Grote's unrivalled history of Greece fills ten large and forbidding vol- umes . Guizot takes thirty - one to tell a portion ...
... seem closed against the ordinary man . Why ? In the first place , the works of the masters are too voluminous . Grote's unrivalled history of Greece fills ten large and forbidding vol- umes . Guizot takes thirty - one to tell a portion ...
עמוד xii
... seem to shrink , to become but dis- tricts in one world - including commonwealth . To tell the story of one nation by itself is thus no longer possible . Great movements of the human race do not stop for imaginary boundary lines thrown ...
... seem to shrink , to become but dis- tricts in one world - including commonwealth . To tell the story of one nation by itself is thus no longer possible . Great movements of the human race do not stop for imaginary boundary lines thrown ...
עמוד xxv
... seems most marked where it was most distant . Perhaps the material prosperity of the land was too great , the conditions of life too easy ; there was no stimulus to effort , to endeavor . By about the year 2200 B.C. we find Egypt fallen ...
... seems most marked where it was most distant . Perhaps the material prosperity of the land was too great , the conditions of life too easy ; there was no stimulus to effort , to endeavor . By about the year 2200 B.C. we find Egypt fallen ...
עמוד xxvi
... seem to have had their early seat and centre of dispersion somewhere in this region , were coalescing into nations ... seems with them to have been slower of conception . True , the first Babylonian monarchs of whom we have any record ...
... seem to have had their early seat and centre of dispersion somewhere in this region , were coalescing into nations ... seems with them to have been slower of conception . True , the first Babylonian monarchs of whom we have any record ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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
קטעים בולטים
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.