A Manual of Ancient and Modern History ...D. Appleton, 1845 - 797 sider |
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... Philip , and became the means of introducing Christianity into Ethiopia . * These are the principal historical facts that can now be ascertained respecting the ancient and once powerful state of Meroë , which has now sunk into the ...
... Philip , and became the means of introducing Christianity into Ethiopia . * These are the principal historical facts that can now be ascertained respecting the ancient and once powerful state of Meroë , which has now sunk into the ...
Side 81
... Philip . EPIRUS was , next to Thes'saly , the largest of the Grecian provinces ; but it was also the least cultivated . It was divided into two provinces ; Molos'sis , and Thesprótia . The interior of Epírus is traversed by wild and ...
... Philip . EPIRUS was , next to Thes'saly , the largest of the Grecian provinces ; but it was also the least cultivated . It was divided into two provinces ; Molos'sis , and Thesprótia . The interior of Epírus is traversed by wild and ...
Side 82
... Philip in his second invasion of Hellas . Mounts Helicon and Parnas'sus , and the fountains of Aganippé and Hippocrené , are names familiar to every reader of poetry ; and these , with the temple and oracle of Del'phi , render the soil ...
... Philip in his second invasion of Hellas . Mounts Helicon and Parnas'sus , and the fountains of Aganippé and Hippocrené , are names familiar to every reader of poetry ; and these , with the temple and oracle of Del'phi , render the soil ...
Side 127
... Philip , the younger brother of Per'diccas , and future conqueror of Greece . On his return , Pelop'idas was treacherously seized by the tyrant of Phéræ , and thrown into prison ; nor was he liberated until Epaminon'das , after the ...
... Philip , the younger brother of Per'diccas , and future conqueror of Greece . On his return , Pelop'idas was treacherously seized by the tyrant of Phéræ , and thrown into prison ; nor was he liberated until Epaminon'das , after the ...
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... Philip , king of Macedon , who had long sought a pretext for inter- fering in the affairs of Greece ( B. c . 352 ) : he marched immediately to their relief , completely routed the Phocians in the plains of Thessaly , and suspended from ...
... Philip , king of Macedon , who had long sought a pretext for inter- fering in the affairs of Greece ( B. c . 352 ) : he marched immediately to their relief , completely routed the Phocians in the plains of Thessaly , and suspended from ...
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Side 40 - So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets. And it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
Side 178 - John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire...
Side 179 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul : neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own } but they had all things common.
Side 179 - Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, and cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, las he was] calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
Side 171 - But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.
Side 44 - Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her.
Side 759 - ... where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? and let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Side 587 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern famine guards the solitary coast, And winter barricades the realms of frost; He comes, nor want nor cold his course delay; Hide, blushing glory, hide Pultowa's day: The...
Side 179 - And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
Side 42 - And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king.