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... been altogether vain . That many errors may yet remain , I am not without apprehensions ; and that it may be the employ- ment of some to detect , and perhaps of a few to aggravate aggravate them , I am not wholly unaware . But vi PREFACE .
... been altogether vain . That many errors may yet remain , I am not without apprehensions ; and that it may be the employ- ment of some to detect , and perhaps of a few to aggravate aggravate them , I am not wholly unaware . But vi PREFACE .
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... Herodotus very much surpassed all others in the choice of his words , the justice of his com- position , and the variety of his figures . His discourse is com- posed Every one knows , who has made the experi- ment HERODOTUS . 15.
... Herodotus very much surpassed all others in the choice of his words , the justice of his com- position , and the variety of his figures . His discourse is com- posed Every one knows , who has made the experi- ment HERODOTUS . 15.
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Herodotus. Every one knows , who has made the experi- ment , how difficult and almost impossible it is to assimilate to the English idiom , the simple and beautiful terseness of Greek composition . If any scholar therefore , who may ...
Herodotus. Every one knows , who has made the experi- ment , how difficult and almost impossible it is to assimilate to the English idiom , the simple and beautiful terseness of Greek composition . If any scholar therefore , who may ...
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... ment of Herodotus by David Chytræus , with va- rious learned notes ; which work I possess . There have been , as might reasonably be ex- pected , multiplied editions of the works of this historian . The first that appeared was in Latin ...
... ment of Herodotus by David Chytræus , with va- rious learned notes ; which work I possess . There have been , as might reasonably be ex- pected , multiplied editions of the works of this historian . The first that appeared was in Latin ...
Side 62
... ment to truth , and abhorrence of flattery * . I think , " said he , " O king , that Tellus the Athe- nian best deserved the appellation of happy . ' Croesus was astonished ; " On what , " he asked , " were the claims of Tellus , to ...
... ment to truth , and abhorrence of flattery * . I think , " said he , " O king , that Tellus the Athe- nian best deserved the appellation of happy . ' Croesus was astonished ; " On what , " he asked , " were the claims of Tellus , to ...
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Side 138 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure : Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain! The master saw the madness rise, His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes; And while he heaven and earth defied Changed his hand, and checked his pride. He chose a mournful Muse Soft pity to infuse : He sung Darius great and...
Side 65 - Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims play ! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day.
Side 196 - God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Side 359 - And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat : and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness : And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land...
Side 361 - And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves : because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews ; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Side 254 - Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Side 65 - 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.
Side 428 - And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father : and the physicians embalmed Israel. And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed : and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
Side 259 - This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Side 356 - The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.