A Manual of Ancient HistoryWilson, Hinkle, 1872 - 376 pages |
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... Greeks before the first Olympiad , B. C. 776. When its system of computation was settled , each nation selected its own era from which to date events ; but we reduce all to our common reckoning of time before and after the Birth of ...
... Greeks before the first Olympiad , B. C. 776. When its system of computation was settled , each nation selected its own era from which to date events ; but we reduce all to our common reckoning of time before and after the Birth of ...
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... Greeks under the general name of Scythia . From the most ancient times to the present , it has been inhabited by wandering tribes , who subsisted mainly upon the milk and flesh of their animals . 14. CENTRAL ASIA , lying between the ...
... Greeks under the general name of Scythia . From the most ancient times to the present , it has been inhabited by wandering tribes , who subsisted mainly upon the milk and flesh of their animals . 14. CENTRAL ASIA , lying between the ...
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Mary Elsie Thalheimer. Persians , Greeks , and Romans ; and materials are yet lacking for its authentic history : the western , on the contrary , was the scene of the earliest and most important events . 16. SOUTH - WESTERN ASIA may be ...
Mary Elsie Thalheimer. Persians , Greeks , and Romans ; and materials are yet lacking for its authentic history : the western , on the contrary , was the scene of the earliest and most important events . 16. SOUTH - WESTERN ASIA may be ...
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... Greeks Mesopotamia . It differed from the more southerly province in being richly wooded : the forests near the Euphrates more than once supplied materials for a fleet to Roman emperors in later times . Susiana lay along the Tigris ...
... Greeks Mesopotamia . It differed from the more southerly province in being richly wooded : the forests near the Euphrates more than once supplied materials for a fleet to Roman emperors in later times . Susiana lay along the Tigris ...
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... Greeks ; and it was two centuries later , in the invasion by Alexander , that the remarkable features of the country ... Greek of Halicarnassus , a Doric city in Caria , and was born B. C. 484. He collected the materials for his works by ...
... Greeks ; and it was two centuries later , in the invasion by Alexander , that the remarkable features of the country ... Greek of Halicarnassus , a Doric city in Caria , and was born B. C. 484. He collected the materials for his works by ...
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Page 27 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. 29 At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. 30 The king spake, and said, is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty? 31 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; the kingdom is departed from thee.
Page 27 - Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment : and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Page 27 - And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing : and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth : and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou...
Page 27 - ... the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Page 44 - The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, "Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
Page 27 - ... but When his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: and he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the Wild asses ; they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of Heaven...
Page 40 - Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Page 27 - And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation...
Page vii - Lectures on the History of Rome, from the Earliest Times to the Fall of the Western Empire.
Page 87 - Says Darius the king : — There was not a man, neither Persian, nor Median, nor any one of our family, who would dispossess of the empire that Gomates the Magian.