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... period between the age of Herodotus and that of Diodorus Siculus , from whom we receive a particular detail of the Indian expedition of Sesostris . -Robertson on India , p . 336 . I have little scruple in avowing my belief that almost ...
... period between the age of Herodotus and that of Diodorus Siculus , from whom we receive a particular detail of the Indian expedition of Sesostris . -Robertson on India , p . 336 . I have little scruple in avowing my belief that almost ...
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... period of his punishment was expired , and that he should recover his sight , by washing his eyes with the urine of a woman , who had never known any man but her husband . Pheron first made the experiment with the urine of his own wife ...
... period of his punishment was expired , and that he should recover his sight , by washing his eyes with the urine of a woman , who had never known any man but her husband . Pheron first made the experiment with the urine of his own wife ...
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... period of the Trojan war . Larcher , after discussing this matter very fully , in his Essay on Chronology , is of opi- nion , and his arguments appear to me at least , satisfactory , that it took place 1263 years before the vulgar æra ...
... period of the Trojan war . Larcher , after discussing this matter very fully , in his Essay on Chronology , is of opi- nion , and his arguments appear to me at least , satisfactory , that it took place 1263 years before the vulgar æra ...
Side 20
... period . The servants of Paris , aware of the pri- vileges of this temple , fled thither from their mas- ter , and with the view of injuring Paris , became the suppliants of the divinity . They published many accusations against their ...
... period . The servants of Paris , aware of the pri- vileges of this temple , fled thither from their mas- ter , and with the view of injuring Paris , became the suppliants of the divinity . They published many accusations against their ...
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... period by the enlightened people of Greece . Porphyry also informs us , that even in his time , who lived 233 years after the Christian æra , human sacrifices were common in Arcadia and at Carthage . - T . of the country , and with ...
... period by the enlightened people of Greece . Porphyry also informs us , that even in his time , who lived 233 years after the Christian æra , human sacrifices were common in Arcadia and at Carthage . - T . of the country , and with ...
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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.