A Compend of History: From the Earliest TimesR.B. Collins, 1856 |
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Acheans Africa Alexander ambition ancient Antiochus arms army arts Asia Assyrian Athenians Athens Austria Babylon battle Bonaparte Brennus British called Carthage Carthaginians cause celebrated century Cesar character Charles Christ Christian civil command commerce Commodus conquered conqueror conquest Cyaxares Cyrus Darius death defeated destroyed destruction dominions Egypt emperor empire enemies England English enterprise Europe father favor fortune France French Gauls genius Germany Give some account glory Grecian Greece Greeks Hannibal Henry honor illustrious immense important inhabitants invaded invasion Italy king kingdom Lacedemon land length Lewis liberty Macedon Marius means mind monarch nations Nineveh peace period Persians Philip Phocion Pompey prince provinces Ptolemy Soter Pyrrhus reign religion republic revolution Romans Rome ruin Russia seemed senate soon Spain Sparta Spartan spirit succeeded success successor Sweden Sylla Syria Themistocles throne tion took Turks United victory virtue wars Xerxes
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Stran 225 - Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself as for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time.
Stran 123 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Stran 206 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears : we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing...
Stran 26 - I behold most cheering indications of the near approach of that day, when all shall know the Lord, from the least unto the greatest.
Stran 103 - ... Exposed to the factions which divide my Country, and to the enmity of the greatest Powers of Europe, I have terminated my political career ; and I come, like Themistocles, to throw myself upon the hospitality of the British People.
Stran 103 - I put myself under the protection of their laws ; which I claim from your Royal Highness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies.
Stran 96 - ... to the noise of a tumultuous assembly, and with pebbles in his mouth that he might correct a defect in his speech...
Stran 110 - The city was fired ; and. in four days, the fire and the sword of the Turk, rendered the beautiful Scio a clotted mass of blood and ashes. The details are too shocking to be recited. Forty thousand women and children, unhappily saved from the general destruction, were afterwards sold in the market of Smyrna, and sent off into distant and hopeless servitude.
Stran 84 - I honour and love you ; but I shall choose rather to obey God than you, and to my latest breath shall never renounce my philosophy, nor cease to exhort and reprove you, according to my custom, by telling- each of you, when you come in my way, My good friend and citizen of the most famous city in the world for wisdom and valour, are you not ashamed to have no other thoughts than...
Stran 215 - He sang of the creation of the world, and the origin of the human race...