Herodotus, כרך 1L. Hansard & Sons, 1830 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 100
עמוד 5
... custom to undress herself at leisure , and to place her garments one by one in a chair near the entrance . You will have the fairest opportunity of contemplating her per- son . As soon as she approaches the bed , and her face is turned ...
... custom to undress herself at leisure , and to place her garments one by one in a chair near the entrance . You will have the fairest opportunity of contemplating her per- son . As soon as she approaches the bed , and her face is turned ...
עמוד 12
... custom exacted , he inquired who and whence he was , " From what part , " said he , " of Phrygia , do you come ? why are you a suppliant to me ? what man or woman have you slain ? " " O king ? " replied the stranger , " I am the son of ...
... custom exacted , he inquired who and whence he was , " From what part , " said he , " of Phrygia , do you come ? why are you a suppliant to me ? what man or woman have you slain ? " " O king ? " replied the stranger , " I am the son of ...
עמוד 19
... custom of sleeping after dinner is invariably preserv ed . It appears from modern travellers , that many of the present inhabitants of Athens have their houses flat- roofed , and decorated with arbours , in which they sleep Demosthenes ...
... custom of sleeping after dinner is invariably preserv ed . It appears from modern travellers , that many of the present inhabitants of Athens have their houses flat- roofed , and decorated with arbours , in which they sleep Demosthenes ...
עמוד 21
... custom of suspending in sacred buildings the spoils taken from the enemy , commencing in the most remote and barbarous ages , has been continued to the present period . See Samuel , book ii . chap . 8. " And David took the shields of ...
... custom of suspending in sacred buildings the spoils taken from the enemy , commencing in the most remote and barbarous ages , has been continued to the present period . See Samuel , book ii . chap . 8. " And David took the shields of ...
עמוד 24
... custom nearly similar . " If the Siamese wish to vow an eternal friendship , they make an incision in some part of the body , till the blood appears , which they afterwards reciprocally drink . In this manner the ancient Scythians and ...
... custom nearly similar . " If the Siamese wish to vow an eternal friendship , they make an incision in some part of the body , till the blood appears , which they afterwards reciprocally drink . In this manner the ancient Scythians and ...
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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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.