A Manual of Ancient HistoryVan Antwerp, Bragg, 1872 - 376 pages |
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... satrap little power of independent action . In this earlier and stronger period of the consolidated empire , the satrap exercised only the civil government , the military being wielded by generals and com- mandants of garrisons , while ...
... satrap little power of independent action . In this earlier and stronger period of the consolidated empire , the satrap exercised only the civil government , the military being wielded by generals and com- mandants of garrisons , while ...
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... satrap , retired with a strong garrison to the castle , which , from its inaccessible rock , defied assault . A spark falling on the light reeds which formed the roofs of Sardis set fire to the town , and the invaders were compelled to ...
... satrap , retired with a strong garrison to the castle , which , from its inaccessible rock , defied assault . A spark falling on the light reeds which formed the roofs of Sardis set fire to the town , and the invaders were compelled to ...
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... satrap , and with his usual skill reformed these abuses . He expelled Manasseh , who had now become high priest , because he had married a daughter of Sanballat the Horonite . The pagan father - in - law hereupon built a rival temple on ...
... satrap , and with his usual skill reformed these abuses . He expelled Manasseh , who had now become high priest , because he had married a daughter of Sanballat the Horonite . The pagan father - in - law hereupon built a rival temple on ...
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... satrap , Tissapher'nes , seized the occasion to cultivate the alliance of Sparta , and aid the Athenian colonies , Lesbos , Chios , and Erythræ , in their in- tended revolt . Pharnabaʼzus , satrap of the Hellespontine provinces , pur ...
... satrap , Tissapher'nes , seized the occasion to cultivate the alliance of Sparta , and aid the Athenian colonies , Lesbos , Chios , and Erythræ , in their in- tended revolt . Pharnabaʼzus , satrap of the Hellespontine provinces , pur ...
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... satrap fled to Philip of Macedon , whose ready protection and Ochus's retaliatory measures led to the most important results . These will be detailed in Book IV . 76. About B. C. 351 , Ochus was ready to attempt the subjugation of Egypt ...
... satrap fled to Philip of Macedon , whose ready protection and Ochus's retaliatory measures led to the most important results . These will be detailed in Book IV . 76. About B. C. 351 , Ochus was ready to attempt the subjugation of Egypt ...
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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.