True Stories from Ancient History: Chronologically Arranged from the Creation of the World to the Death of Charlemagne, כרך 2Harris and Son, 1819 - 224 עמודים |
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עמוד 134 - He possessed such flexibility of thought, and such firmness of attention, that he could employ his hand to write, his ear to listen, and his voice to dictate ; and pursue at once three several trains of ideas without hesitation and without error...
עמוד 189 - ... objects of exchange soon attracted the merchants of the world, whose beneficial traffic was encouraged and protected by the liberal spirit of Theodoric. The free intercourse of the provinces by land and water was restored and extended ; the city gates were never shut either by day or by night ; and the common saying, that a purse of gold might be safely left in the fields, was expressive of the conscious security of the inhabitants.
עמוד 67 - However, perceiving his end approaching, and as he was just going to expire, he cried out that an emperor ought to die standing ; wherefore, raising himself upon his feet, he expired in the hands of those that sustained him. (79 AD) " He was a man," says Pliny, 9 " in whom power made no alteration, except in giving him the opportunity of doing good equal to his will.
עמוד 109 - Maximin was eight feet and a half high, and so strong that he could draw a carriage which two oxen could not move.* He could eat forty pounds of meat every day, and drink six gallons of wine without being intoxicated. But as I can hear of no good action he performed, or wise saying he uttered, I shall only tell you that the soldiers massacred him.
עמוד 207 - Koran, according to himself or his disciples, is uncreated and eternal ; subsisting in the essence of the Deity, and inscribed with a pen of light on the table of his everlasting decrees. A paper copy, in a volume of silk and gems, was brought down to the lowest heaven by the angel Gabriel, who, under the Jewish economy, had indeed been despatched on the most important errands ; and this trusty messenger successively revealed the chapters and verses to the Arabian prophet.
עמוד 67 - ... nobility of Spain. — sated : satisfied Prince Juan (hwan) : the only son of King Ferdinand. A few years later the young prince died. — Las Ca'sas : a Spanish missionary and historian who went with Columbus upon his second voyage. THE DESTRUCTION OF POMPEII BULWER LYTTON NOTE. — In the year AD 79 the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were destroyed by an eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. The following selection is taken from
עמוד 145 - Great expired at Milan, in the fiftieth year of his age, and the eighteenth of his reign, AD 395.
עמוד 5 - Cleopatra was dead, stabbed himself, that so, either in life or death, he might share her fate; but finding the account was false, and that she had only shut herself up in a monument, he desired to be carried to her. As all the entrances were fastened, Cleopatra and her women drew up the dying lover into one of the windows. Antony died in the presence of his too much loved Egyptian queen...