The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events of All Nations and All Ages, Band 7Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton William Finley & Company, 1895 |
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... horse- back , nor am I fit to be at the head of armed men . " But the voice repeated the injunction : Joan was to go to the assist- ance of the Dauphin , and help him to drive the English out of his kingdom , and to have him consecrated ...
... horse- back , nor am I fit to be at the head of armed men . " But the voice repeated the injunction : Joan was to go to the assist- ance of the Dauphin , and help him to drive the English out of his kingdom , and to have him consecrated ...
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... horse . In the retreat and recrossing of the Indus , large numbers of her followers perished ; and she returned to her own dominions with but one - third of the army she had led forth . As she drew near to Babylon , she learned that her ...
... horse . In the retreat and recrossing of the Indus , large numbers of her followers perished ; and she returned to her own dominions with but one - third of the army she had led forth . As she drew near to Babylon , she learned that her ...
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... horses also were defended by facings both over the breast and head . Cyrus himself , armed generally like the rest , stood distinguished by having an upright tiara instead 48 HISTORIC CHARACTERS AND FAMOUS EVENTS . The Battle of Kunaxa ...
... horses also were defended by facings both over the breast and head . Cyrus himself , armed generally like the rest , stood distinguished by having an upright tiara instead 48 HISTORIC CHARACTERS AND FAMOUS EVENTS . The Battle of Kunaxa ...
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... horses , left to them- selves , rushed apart in all directions , some turning round to follow the fugitives , others ... horse immediately around him , was at the extreme Persian left , close to the river , -formed an excep- tion to this ...
... horses , left to them- selves , rushed apart in all directions , some turning round to follow the fugitives , others ... horse immediately around him , was at the extreme Persian left , close to the river , -formed an excep- tion to this ...
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... horse around him , watching the movements of Artaxerxes . As soon as he saw the latter wheeling round his right ... horse , under Artagerses . So vigorous was the attack of Cyrus , that with his six hundred horse , he broke and dispersed ...
... horse around him , watching the movements of Artaxerxes . As soon as he saw the latter wheeling round his right ... horse , under Artagerses . So vigorous was the attack of Cyrus , that with his six hundred horse , he broke and dispersed ...
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afterwards Agesilaus Alemanni Anne Boleyn Antigonus arms army Artaxerxes Asia Athenians Aurelian barbarians battle became Belisarius brother Cæsar called camp character Charles Chosroes Christian Church command Constantine court crown Cyrus Dante daughter death declared defeated Demetrius Domremy Duke Earl Egypt emperor empire enemy England English eyes father favor force France French Galerius gave Giotto glory Goths Greece Greeks Guzman hand heart Henry Henry VIII Henry's Heraclius honor horse invaded Italy Joan Justinian Katharine king king's kingdom labarum land Lord Lysimachus Maid married Maxentius military monarch noble Orleans palace Palmyra peace Persian priest prince provinces Ptolemy queen Ravenna received reign retreat returned Rheims Richard Roman Rome says Semiramis Senate sent siege Socrates soldiers soon sovereign Sparta stood sword Syria thee thou throne tion Tissaphernes took Tower troops victory Vitiges voice Vul-lush walls wife Wolsey Xenophon York Zenobia
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Seite 395 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Seite 269 - Where'er he turns, he meets a stranger's eye, His suppliants scorn him, and his followers fly...
Seite 318 - Where he greatly stood at bay, Whence he issued forth anew, And ever great and greater grew, Beating from the wasted vines Back to France her banded swarms, Back to France with countless blows, Till o'er the hills her eagles flew...
Seite 219 - And so he vanish'd: then came wandering by A shadow like an Angel, with bright hair Dabbled in blood; and he shriek'd out aloud, 'Clarence is come, — false, fleeting, perjur'd Clarence, That stabb'd me in the field by Tewkesbury; Seize on him, Furies, take him to your torments!
Seite 319 - He is gone who seem'd so great. — Gone ; but nothing can bereave him Of the force he made his own Being here, and we believe him Something far advanced in State, And that he wears a truer crown Than any wreath that man can weave him.
Seite 268 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
Seite 398 - Sir, I know not how others may feel (glancing at the opponents of the college before him), but for myself, when I see my alma mater surrounded like Caesar in the Senate House, by those who are reiterating stab upon stab, I would not for this right hand, have her turn to me, and say, et tu quoque, mi fill ! and thou, too, my son ! — He sat down.
Seite 318 - Europe-shadowing wings, And barking for the thrones of kings ; Till one that sought but Duty's iron crown On that loud Sabbath shook the spoiler down ; A day of onsets of despair ! Dash'd on every rocky square Their surging charges foam'd themselves away ; Last, the Prussian trumpet blew ; Thro' the long-tormented air Heaven flashed a sudden jubilant ray And down we swept and charged and overthrew.
Seite 35 - ... those days, and great was he that sat upon it; but well Joanna knew that not the throne, nor he that sat upon it, was for her; but, on the contrary, that she was for them; not she by them, but they by her, should rise from the dust. Gorgeous were the lilies of France, and for centuries had the privilege to spread their beauty over land and sea, until, in another century, the wrath of God and man combined to wither them; but well Joanna knew, early at Domremy she had read that bitter truth, that...
Seite 170 - MY lady carries love within her eyes ; All that she looks on is made pleasanter; Upon her path men turn to gaze at her; He whom she greeteth feels his heart to rise...