The World Displayed, in Its History and Geography;: Embracing a History of the World, from the Creation to the Present Day ...H. Savage, 1833 |
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... 14. According to the most probable accounts , it was 869 years B. C. when Dido arrived at Africa . The history of the CARTHAGINIANS is dated from this event . She E 2 1004-752 B. C. 53 preserved the name of Assyria, Babylon, and the ...
... 14. According to the most probable accounts , it was 869 years B. C. when Dido arrived at Africa . The history of the CARTHAGINIANS is dated from this event . She E 2 1004-752 B. C. 53 preserved the name of Assyria, Babylon, and the ...
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... CARTHAGINIANS is dated from this event . She fixed her habitation at the bottom of a gulf , on a peninsula , near the spot where Tunis now stands . From this , Carthage arose , a city which afterwards became famous for its wealth and ...
... CARTHAGINIANS is dated from this event . She fixed her habitation at the bottom of a gulf , on a peninsula , near the spot where Tunis now stands . From this , Carthage arose , a city which afterwards became famous for its wealth and ...
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... first prospe- rous , and then adverse . So that he once more returned to Italy , being almost driven from Syracuse by the Carthaginians . The Romans fell before him again ; but at last , they 102 ANCIENT HISTORY - PERIOD VIII .
... first prospe- rous , and then adverse . So that he once more returned to Italy , being almost driven from Syracuse by the Carthaginians . The Romans fell before him again ; but at last , they 102 ANCIENT HISTORY - PERIOD VIII .
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... Carthaginians , re- duced them to the necessity of making peace on very humili- ating terms . They were required to quit Sicily , return all the prisoners they had taken , and pay 3,200 talents of silver . { The Mamertines , who ...
... Carthaginians , re- duced them to the necessity of making peace on very humili- ating terms . They were required to quit Sicily , return all the prisoners they had taken , and pay 3,200 talents of silver . { The Mamertines , who ...
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... Carthaginians , at length turned against them . Agrigentum was taken from the Carthaginians , after a long siege ; and a fleet of the Romans , the first they ever possessed , and which they had equipped in a few weeks , defeated that of ...
... Carthaginians , at length turned against them . Agrigentum was taken from the Carthaginians , after a long siege ; and a fleet of the Romans , the first they ever possessed , and which they had equipped in a few weeks , defeated that of ...
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Seite 201 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Seite 194 - Astarte, queen of Heaven, with crescent horns ; To whose bright image nightly by the moon Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs...
Seite 216 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Seite 25 - He was a mighty hunter before the Lord : wherefore it is said, "Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord." And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Seite 336 - The fellows or monks of my time were decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder : their days were filled by a series of uniform employments ; the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till they retired, weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber. .From the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their conscience...
Seite 142 - Large countries, and in fields great battles win, Great cities by assault: what do these worthies, But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations...
Seite 123 - He knew how to reconcile the most enterprising spirit with the coolest moderation ; the most obstinate perseverance with the easiest flexibility; the most severe justice with the gentlest lenity ; the greatest vigour in commanding with the most perfect affability of deportment ; the highest capacity and inclination for science, with the most shining talents for action.
Seite 15 - And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
Seite 206 - Her heroism was exempt from temerity, her frugality from avarice, her friendship from partiality, her active temper from turbulency and a vain ambition : She guarded not herself with equal care or equal success from lesser infirmities; the rivalship of beauty, the desire of admiration, the jealousy of love, and the sallies of anger.
Seite 266 - He scarce had ceased when the superior Fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.