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... success , and another kind of corn called escanda , Agricul affording white flour of good quality . Two crops in ture . one year are obtained from the low lands , in which case barley follows either maize or flax . But the operations of ...
... success , and another kind of corn called escanda , Agricul affording white flour of good quality . Two crops in ture . one year are obtained from the low lands , in which case barley follows either maize or flax . But the operations of ...
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... success , retreated into their own country . The Athenians , who had long been jealous of the power of their kings , took this opportunity to abolish a title which had become odious . That of Archon A. C. 1070 . was substituted . Athens ...
... success , retreated into their own country . The Athenians , who had long been jealous of the power of their kings , took this opportunity to abolish a title which had become odious . That of Archon A. C. 1070 . was substituted . Athens ...
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... success to crush their other enemies . The Chalcidians appear to have been on the point of forming a junction with the Baotians , and had advanced , with that view , to the other side of the narrow channel of the Euripus , which ...
... success to crush their other enemies . The Chalcidians appear to have been on the point of forming a junction with the Baotians , and had advanced , with that view , to the other side of the narrow channel of the Euripus , which ...
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... success , with which their enterprises were afterwards crowned . A. C. 490 . Miltiades . This affair directed the eyes of the Persian monarch towards Greece , both as an object of resentment and of ambition . His first step was to send ...
... success , with which their enterprises were afterwards crowned . A. C. 490 . Miltiades . This affair directed the eyes of the Persian monarch towards Greece , both as an object of resentment and of ambition . His first step was to send ...
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... success , and exacted large sums from them . But on coming to Paros , he was prompted by private resentment against Tisagoras , a leading man in the island , to make so enorinous a demand , as determined the inhabitants to resist to the ...
... success , and exacted large sums from them . But on coming to Paros , he was prompted by private resentment against Tisagoras , a leading man in the island , to make so enorinous a demand , as determined the inhabitants to resist to the ...
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Seite 165 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Seite 165 - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Seite 101 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Seite 168 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there ; but wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Seite 168 - But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there : and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures : and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces : and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
Seite 58 - For such an High Priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens ; who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for His own sins, and then for the people's : for this He did once, when He offered up Himself.
Seite 66 - His person, it is to be confessed, is no small recommendation; but he is to be highly commended for not losing that advantage, and adding to the propriety of speech, which might pass the criticism of Longinus, an action which would have been approved by Demosthenes. He has a peculiar force in his way, and has many of his audience, who could not be intelligent hearers of his discourse, were there not explanation as well as grace in his action. This art of his is used with the most exact and honest...
Seite 181 - His principal fault seems to have been the excess of that virtue which covers a multitude of faults. This betrayed him to so great an indulgence towards his servants who made a corrupt use of it, that it stripped him of all those riches and honours which a long series of merits had heaped upon him.
Seite 165 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth : and from thence did the Birth of LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the Abram earth.
Seite 337 - ... that they frequently eat their own relations when aged and infirm, and that, not so much to gratify their appetite, as to perform a pious ceremony. Thus, when a man becomes infirm and weary of the world, he is said to invite his own children to eat him in the season when salt and limes are cheapest. He then ascends a tree, round which his friends and offspring assemble, and as they shake the tree, join in a funeral dirge, the import of which is, " The season is come, the fruit is ripe, and it...