Parallel Universal History: Being an Outline of the History and Biography of the World, Divided Into PeriodsWhittaker, 1838 - 654 páginas |
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... brought upon us . pecting the sincerity of this good man , and alleging , that if he were deprived of his fortune and health , his temper and conduct would change with his circumstances . Permission , therefore , was granted by the ...
... brought upon us . pecting the sincerity of this good man , and alleging , that if he were deprived of his fortune and health , his temper and conduct would change with his circumstances . Permission , therefore , was granted by the ...
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... brought it up . The Israelites had now increased to 600,000 , besides children ; and the Egyptians had long made them their builders and servants . Pharaoh's op- pression of the chosen people became at length so serious , that God ...
... brought it up . The Israelites had now increased to 600,000 , besides children ; and the Egyptians had long made them their builders and servants . Pharaoh's op- pression of the chosen people became at length so serious , that God ...
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... brought de- struction in one night on the first- born of the Egyptians and it is still annually held , though with corrupted forms , by the modern Jews . The feast Pentecost was a thanksgiving for the beginning of wheat - harvest ; and ...
... brought de- struction in one night on the first- born of the Egyptians and it is still annually held , though with corrupted forms , by the modern Jews . The feast Pentecost was a thanksgiving for the beginning of wheat - harvest ; and ...
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... brought upon Jason form the subject of one of Euripides ' finest tragedies . The Hellespont is also famed for the drowning of Lean- der , a youth of Abydos , who swam nightly across it to visit Hero , a beau- tiful priestess of Venus at ...
... brought upon Jason form the subject of one of Euripides ' finest tragedies . The Hellespont is also famed for the drowning of Lean- der , a youth of Abydos , who swam nightly across it to visit Hero , a beau- tiful priestess of Venus at ...
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... brought alive to Eurystheus , the wild boar of Frymanthus ; 5 , he cleansed the stables of Augeas , king of Elis , by turning the course of the river Alpheus through them ; in these three thousand oxen had been kept many years ; 6. he ...
... brought alive to Eurystheus , the wild boar of Frymanthus ; 5 , he cleansed the stables of Augeas , king of Elis , by turning the course of the river Alpheus through them ; in these three thousand oxen had been kept many years ; 6. he ...
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Página 67 - And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.
Página 67 - Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring ; for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.
Página 29 - Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD; it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God: let not man prevail against thee.
Página 493 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street: On with the dance! let joy be unconfined: No sleep till morn when youth and pleasure meet, To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
Página 34 - Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets ; give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver and two changes of garments.
Página 34 - Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
Página 493 - No sleep till morn when youth and pleasure meet, To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. But hark that heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before ! Arm! arm! it is — it is the cannon's opening roar! Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain: he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with death's prophetic ear...
Página 348 - At these words the child looked very steadfastly upon him. " Mark, child ! what I say ; they will cut off my head, and perhaps make thee a king ; but mark what I say, thou must not be a king as long as thy brothers Charles and James are alive. They will cut off thy brothers' heads when they can catch them. And thy head, too, they will cut off at last. Therefore, I charge thee, do not be made a king by them.
Página 34 - And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
Página 538 - Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up, the gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick.