Herodotus, Bind 2L. Hansard & Sons, 1812 |
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... According to the priests , he was the first who , passing the Ara- bian gulf in a fleet of long vessels , reduced under his authority the inhabitants bordering on the Erythrean 179 Sesostris . ] - See Bouhier's Chronological Account of ...
... According to the priests , he was the first who , passing the Ara- bian gulf in a fleet of long vessels , reduced under his authority the inhabitants bordering on the Erythrean 179 Sesostris . ] - See Bouhier's Chronological Account of ...
Side 3
... According to another tradition preserved in Valerius Flaccus , the Getæ , the bravest and most upright of the Thracians , vanquished Sesostris ; and it was doubtless to secure his retreat , that he left a detachment of his troops in ...
... According to another tradition preserved in Valerius Flaccus , the Getæ , the bravest and most upright of the Thracians , vanquished Sesostris ; and it was doubtless to secure his retreat , that he left a detachment of his troops in ...
Side 7
... according to Norden , one of the principal of their mer- chandises , and is sent away in prodigious quantities along with unmanufactured flax and cotton spun . To which I would add this remark of Sanutus , who lived about 400 years ago ...
... according to Norden , one of the principal of their mer- chandises , and is sent away in prodigious quantities along with unmanufactured flax and cotton spun . To which I would add this remark of Sanutus , who lived about 400 years ago ...
Side 11
... according to Herodotus , cut so many canals in Egypt , that it became impossible to travel in chariots . The Bible , therefore , must relate a fable , for it says that Pharaoh pursued the Israelites in six hundred chariots . Unluckily ...
... according to Herodotus , cut so many canals in Egypt , that it became impossible to travel in chariots . The Bible , therefore , must relate a fable , for it says that Pharaoh pursued the Israelites in six hundred chariots . Unluckily ...
Side 22
... according to the narrative of the priests , did Helen come to the court of Pro- teus . I conceive that this circumstance could not be unknown to Homer ; but as he thought it less ornamental to his poem , he forbore to use it . That he ...
... according to the narrative of the priests , did Helen come to the court of Pro- teus . I conceive that this circumstance could not be unknown to Homer ; but as he thought it less ornamental to his poem , he forbore to use it . That he ...
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according Ægypt Ægyptians Æsop affirm afterwards Amasis amongst ancient animal Apollo appears Apries Arabian Aristeas army arrived Asia asserted Athenæus authority Babylon Babylonians body brother called Cambyses camels canal chap circumstance cubits custom Cyrus Darius daughter death deity Democedes Diodorus Siculus divine earth Egypt erected Ethiopians father feet gold Greece Greeks Gulph Hercules Herodotus honour horse hundred Hyperboreans Ichthyophagi Indians inhabitants island Issedones king Lacedæmonians lake Larcher learned length Mæandrius magus Major Rennel Memphis mentioned nations never Nile observed opinion oracle Otanes passage Pausanias Periander Persians person Phoenicians Pliny Plutarch Polycrates present Prexaspes priests prince probably Psammitichus pyramid reader reign remarks river sacred Samians Samos satrapy says Scythians seems seen sent Sesostris Smerdis soon speak stone Strabo supposed Syloson talents temple thians thing thousand tion vessel voyage whilst Zopyrus
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Side 138 - O ! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine ; Or find some other way to generate Mankind...
Side 164 - And it came to pass, as. the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold; and said, Whose daughter art thou?
Side 436 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Side 263 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Side 152 - No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things, — What they are, yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You think...
Side 32 - In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
Side 152 - You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age, wretched in both. If it be you that stirs these daughters...
Side 194 - Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man her slave oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom pleased to bless : Still various, and unconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes a lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes...
Side 101 - And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD.
Side 227 - Laud be to God ! — even there my life must end. It hath been prophesied to me many years, I should not die but in Jerusalem ; Which vainly I suppos'd, the Holy Land : — But, bear me to that chamber ; there I'll lie ; In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.