Herodotus, Bind 2L. Hansard & Sons, 1812 |
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Side 2
... learned from the same authority , he levied a mighty army , and made a martial pro- gress by land , subduing all the nations whom he met with on his march . Whenever he was op- posed by a people who proved themselves brave , and who ...
... learned from the same authority , he levied a mighty army , and made a martial pro- gress by land , subduing all the nations whom he met with on his march . Whenever he was op- posed by a people who proved themselves brave , and who ...
Side 6
... learned it , and that too in modern times , from the Colchians . These are the only people who use circumcision , and who use it precisely like the Ægyptians . As this practice can be traced both in Ægypt and Æthiopia to the remotest ...
... learned it , and that too in modern times , from the Colchians . These are the only people who use circumcision , and who use it precisely like the Ægyptians . As this practice can be traced both in Ægypt and Æthiopia to the remotest ...
Side 12
... learned it from hence . As to 189 Origin of geometry . ] - The natives of Thebes , above all others , were renowned for their great wisdom . Their im provements in geometry are thought to have been owing to the nature of their country ...
... learned it from hence . As to 189 Origin of geometry . ] - The natives of Thebes , above all others , were renowned for their great wisdom . Their im provements in geometry are thought to have been owing to the nature of their country ...
Side 13
... learned Frenchman , " who wishes to form a solar quadrant must necessarily know the altitude of the pole . " - When it is considered that the more ancient dials were divided by the first twelve letters of the alphabet , I cannot help ...
... learned Frenchman , " who wishes to form a solar quadrant must necessarily know the altitude of the pole . " - When it is considered that the more ancient dials were divided by the first twelve letters of the alphabet , I cannot help ...
Side 14
... learned Frenchman's opinion , that this is the implied mean- ing , rests on the positive assertion of Diodorus Siculus , who , relating the fact of the statues circumstantially , adds that they were erected by Sesostris in gratitude to ...
... learned Frenchman's opinion , that this is the implied mean- ing , rests on the positive assertion of Diodorus Siculus , who , relating the fact of the statues circumstantially , adds that they were erected by Sesostris in gratitude to ...
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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.