Herodotus, כרך 1L. Hansard & Sons, 1830 |
מתוך הספר
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עמוד iii
... ancient authors be still wanting , the deficiency is owing , I conceive , to some other 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 ...
... ancient authors be still wanting , the deficiency is owing , I conceive , to some other 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 ...
עמוד iv
... ancient authors by the want of a suitable education . Many by birth entitled to every advantage , are early called away from learning to scenes of active occupation . Some such I have seen , and highly value , who , not ashamed of a ...
... ancient authors by the want of a suitable education . Many by birth entitled to every advantage , are early called away from learning to scenes of active occupation . Some such I have seen , and highly value , who , not ashamed of a ...
עמוד vii
... ancient lives , this fault indeed cannot be committed ; but even that species of biography has been much disfigured by the ambition of collecting every trifling hint that antiquity has left , and swelling out the rest by vague and often ...
... ancient lives , this fault indeed cannot be committed ; but even that species of biography has been much disfigured by the ambition of collecting every trifling hint that antiquity has left , and swelling out the rest by vague and often ...
עמוד xi
... ancient author would have written , had he wrote in the same language . " Letters on History . Perhaps I ought not to omit , that many eminent writers , both of ancient and modern times , accuse Herodotus of not having had a sufficient ...
... ancient author would have written , had he wrote in the same language . " Letters on History . Perhaps I ought not to omit , that many eminent writers , both of ancient and modern times , accuse Herodotus of not having had a sufficient ...
עמוד xv
... ancients used it in a much milder sense than we do . Much as has been said of the pride of the old Romans , the word ... ancient or modern , who has been more warmly commended or more vehemently censured than this eminent historian ; but ...
... ancients used it in a much milder sense than we do . Much as has been said of the pride of the old Romans , the word ... ancient or modern , who has been more warmly commended or more vehemently censured than this eminent historian ; but ...
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Ægina affirm afterwards Amasis amongst ancient Apollo appears Argives Aristagoras army arrived Asia assert Astyages Athenæus Athenians Athens attack authority Barbarians battle betwixt body called Cambyses chap Cleomenes commanded conduct Croesus custom Cyrus Darius daughter death deity Delphi Demaratus Diodorus Diodorus Siculus divine Egypt Egyptians enemy engaged esteemed father favour fleet gods gold Grecian Greece Greeks Hellespont Hercules Herodotus Homer honour horse hundred informed inhabitants Ionians island Jupiter king Lacedæmonians land Larcher Lydians manner Mardonius Medes mentioned Milesians Miletus nations Nile observed occasion opinion oracle particular passage passed Pausanias Peloponnese Persians person Phenicians Phoceans Pliny Plutarch possessed present priests prince reader reign remarks replied river sacred sacrifice Salamis Samians Samos Sardis says Scythians seems sent Siculus soon Sparta speak Strabo temple Themistocles thing thousand tion took troops vessels victory whilst women word Xerxes
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 230 - And the people gave a shout, saying ; It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory ; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
עמוד 315 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
עמוד 9 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : | yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
עמוד 128 - And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ear-ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold...
עמוד 127 - And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
עמוד 79 - In the vicinity of Thebes there are also sacred serpents," not at all troublesome to men : they are very small, but have two horns on the top of the head. When they die, they are buried in the temple of Jupiter, to whom they are said to belong.
עמוד 153 - Turks may exercise a shadow of jurisdiction, but his pride is reduced to solicit the friendship of a people whom it is dangerous to provoke and fruitless to attack.
עמוד 40 - The earth of the trench was first of all laid in heaps, and when a sufficient quantity was obtained, made into square bricks, and baked in a furnace. They used as cement a composition of heated bitumen, which, mixed with the tops of reeds, was placed between every thirtieth course of bricks.
עמוד 171 - But these two things shall come to thee in a moment, in one day ; the loss of children...
עמוד 243 - The olive, in the western world, followed the progress of peace, of which it was considered as the symbol. Two centuries after the foundation of Rome, both Italy and Africa were strangers to that useful plant ; it was naturalized in those countries ; and at length carried into the heart of Spain and Gaul. The timid errors of the ancients, that it required a certain degree of heat, and could only flourish in the neighbourhood of the sea, were insensibly exploded by industry and experience.