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... killed and wounded , and 3000 prisoners , while the British had but 12 killed and 42 wounded , Nov. 3 , 1840. See Syria and Turkey . ACROPOLIS OF ATHENS . The citadel of Athens was built on a rock , and accessible only on one side ...
... killed and wounded , and 3000 prisoners , while the British had but 12 killed and 42 wounded , Nov. 3 , 1840. See Syria and Turkey . ACROPOLIS OF ATHENS . The citadel of Athens was built on a rock , and accessible only on one side ...
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... killed , and 14,000 were taken prisoners , the English losing only 100 men . Among the prisoners were the dukes of Orleans and Bourbon , and 7000 barons , knights , and gentlemen , and men more numerous than the British themselves ...
... killed , and 14,000 were taken prisoners , the English losing only 100 men . Among the prisoners were the dukes of Orleans and Bourbon , and 7000 barons , knights , and gentlemen , and men more numerous than the British themselves ...
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... killed and salted them ; and on a discovery being made , she was broken on the wheel and burnt , in 1519. Various more recent instances of this kind have occurred . - See Cannibalism . ANTICHRIST : The name given by way of eminence by ...
... killed and salted them ; and on a discovery being made , she was broken on the wheel and burnt , in 1519. Various more recent instances of this kind have occurred . - See Cannibalism . ANTICHRIST : The name given by way of eminence by ...
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... killed , 3,500 taken prisoners , and 600 emigrants shut up in Longwy ; 900 French were killed in the action ; thirty pieces of battering - cannon and howitzers , with all the baggage of the combined army , were captured , August 13 ...
... killed , 3,500 taken prisoners , and 600 emigrants shut up in Longwy ; 900 French were killed in the action ; thirty pieces of battering - cannon and howitzers , with all the baggage of the combined army , were captured , August 13 ...
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... killed by arrows shot from the cross - bows of the Norman soldiers at the battle of Hastings , in 1066 ; that which killed the king pierced him in the brain . Richard I. revived archery in England in 1190 , and was himself killed by an ...
... killed by arrows shot from the cross - bows of the Norman soldiers at the battle of Hastings , in 1066 ; that which killed the king pierced him in the brain . Richard I. revived archery in England in 1190 , and was himself killed by an ...
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Seite 69 - If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young...
Seite 199 - Even from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee; Bid them in Duty's sphere as meekly move; And if so fair, from vanity as free; As firm in friendship, and as fond in love. Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die ('Twas even to thee), yet the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids ' the pure in heart behold their God.
Seite 26 - And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
Seite 299 - But see! each Muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays! Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend head.
Seite 14 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep': The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep'.
Seite 475 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
Seite 155 - I pity the man who can travel from Dan. to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren and so it is; and so is all the world to him, who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.
Seite 459 - May, 1700, and was buried in Westminster abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by John, duke of Buckingham.
Seite 556 - If there were as many devils in Worms as there are tiles on the housetops I would go.
Seite 373 - ... thou shalt not go again to fetch it : it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow : that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.