The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events of All Nations and All Ages, Band 1Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton F. Finley & Company, 1894 |
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... Athens . " Pericles and Aspasia . • 112 117 PHIDIAS . · • DARIUS . • 119 122 CHARLES THE BOLD .. The Invasion of Switzerland OLIVER CROMWELL .. The Battle of Naseby . Cromwell before the Dead Body of Charles I. HENRY HUDSON ... The ...
... Athens . " Pericles and Aspasia . • 112 117 PHIDIAS . · • DARIUS . • 119 122 CHARLES THE BOLD .. The Invasion of Switzerland OLIVER CROMWELL .. The Battle of Naseby . Cromwell before the Dead Body of Charles I. HENRY HUDSON ... The ...
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... Athenian laughed at the Lacedæmonian short swords , and said , " The jugglers would swallow them . with ease upon the stage , " answered in his laconic way , " And yet we can reach our enemies ' hearts with them . " Indeed , to me there ...
... Athenian laughed at the Lacedæmonian short swords , and said , " The jugglers would swallow them . with ease upon the stage , " answered in his laconic way , " And yet we can reach our enemies ' hearts with them . " Indeed , to me there ...
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... Athens , where he passed six months . Here was formed his intimate and lasting friend- ship with Titus Pomponius Atticus , to which the world owes many of his admirable letters . About the age of twenty - five he began his career as an ...
... Athens , where he passed six months . Here was formed his intimate and lasting friend- ship with Titus Pomponius Atticus , to which the world owes many of his admirable letters . About the age of twenty - five he began his career as an ...
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... ancient Norwegian settlements on the Charles River , Massachusetts , but the proof seemed insufficient to establish his theory . PERICLES . PERICLES was not only the greatest of Athenian. 108 HISTORIC CHARACTERS AND FAMOUS EVENTS .
... ancient Norwegian settlements on the Charles River , Massachusetts , but the proof seemed insufficient to establish his theory . PERICLES . PERICLES was not only the greatest of Athenian. 108 HISTORIC CHARACTERS AND FAMOUS EVENTS .
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... Athenian statesmen , but one of the most remarkable characters of antiquity . The age of Pericles is memorable as the most brilliant period of Athenian art , culture and dramatic literature . Among his illustrious contemporaries were ...
... Athenian statesmen , but one of the most remarkable characters of antiquity . The age of Pericles is memorable as the most brilliant period of Athenian art , culture and dramatic literature . Among his illustrious contemporaries were ...
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admirable Agnes Branch allies American arms army arrived Athenians Athens attack battle became body brave British Cæsar camp canoes cavalry Champlain charge Charles Charles Martel chief Cicero citizens coast command Cornwallis Croesus Cromwell Cyrus Darius death defeated Demosthenes Duke enemy England English expedition father favor fear fight fire fled fleet force formed France Franklin French friends gave Greece Greeks Greene Greenland Guthrum hand hill honor horse Hudson hundred Indians infantry Iroquois Island Justinian Khiti King King Ramses land Lord Louis Macedon Marion miles militia Miltiades Morgan Nabonidus natives night noble officers orations party Pausanias Pericles Persian Phidias Phocion Plutarch Prince prisoners Putnam Raleigh Ramses Ramses II received retreat returned river Roman Rome Romulus royal Sabines sailed sent ship Solon soon Soto Spartans spirit Tarleton temple Themistocles thou thousand tion took tribes Tribonian troops valor victory Xerxes
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Seite 67 - Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust ; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust. My God shall raise me up, I trust ! ELIZABETHAN MISCELLANIES.
Seite 104 - Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
Seite 104 - That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built...
Seite 69 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; . . . what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath nattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised; thou hast drawn together all the farstretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, hie j'acet!
Seite 104 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, And shall perform all my pleasure ; Even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built ; And to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Seite 113 - But while the law secures equal justice to all alike in their private disputes, the claim of excellence is also recognized; and when a citizen is in any way distinguished, he is preferred to the public service, not as a matter of privilege, but as the reward of merit.
Seite 69 - Death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself. He tells the proud and insolent that they are but abjects, and humbles them at the instant; makes them cry, complain, and repent, yea, even to hate their forepassed happiness.
Seite 293 - We had now fair sun-shine weather, and so pleasant a sweet air as did much refresh us, and there came a smell off the shore like the smell of a garden.
Seite 114 - Our city is thrown open to the world, and we never expel a foreigner or prevent him from seeing or learning anything of which the secret, if revealed to an enemy, might profit him. We rely not upon management or trickery, but upon our own hearts and hands.
Seite 354 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.