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... conquered by his extra- ordinary bravery and skill almost the whole of the world known in his day ; but he had many faults ; for though he was very clever , he only studied how to make himself a powerful man , and cared little for the ...
... conquered by his extra- ordinary bravery and skill almost the whole of the world known in his day ; but he had many faults ; for though he was very clever , he only studied how to make himself a powerful man , and cared little for the ...
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... conquering Rome . Julius Cæsar was a tall man , with dark eyes and a fair complexion ; he had often very dreadful fits , which caused him to fall suddenly on the ground quite helpless , and to have frightful convulsions ; yet he never ...
... conquering Rome . Julius Cæsar was a tall man , with dark eyes and a fair complexion ; he had often very dreadful fits , which caused him to fall suddenly on the ground quite helpless , and to have frightful convulsions ; yet he never ...
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... , because it would have distressed their host very much . When Cæsar read the history of Alexander the Great , and saw that , at thirty years of age , nearly the whole world then known had been conquered by that JULIUS CÆSAR . 19.
... , because it would have distressed their host very much . When Cæsar read the history of Alexander the Great , and saw that , at thirty years of age , nearly the whole world then known had been conquered by that JULIUS CÆSAR . 19.
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... conquered more countries , than any other general ever did . Thousands and thousands of their enemies were killed in the course of a very few years ; whole cities were burned by their soldiers ; and , in almost every country , widows ...
... conquered more countries , than any other general ever did . Thousands and thousands of their enemies were killed in the course of a very few years ; whole cities were burned by their soldiers ; and , in almost every country , widows ...
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... conquered that country . Cæsar had often heard of the island we live in , which was then called Britain , as it is now ; though nobody thought at that time of calling it Great Britain , because it was a very poor place indeed , and so ...
... conquered that country . Cæsar had often heard of the island we live in , which was then called Britain , as it is now ; though nobody thought at that time of calling it Great Britain , because it was a very poor place indeed , and so ...
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Seite 99 - A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Seite 111 - I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day; and not to me only, but unto all them, also, that love His appearing.
Seite 152 - And just as he added at the last, "Woe, woe to myself also!
Seite 20 - Man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them ; he came not to curse, but to bless us, by turning away every one of us from his iniquities.
Seite 122 - For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death : for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
Seite 106 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest : but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
Seite 180 - ... spite, however, of the edicts of the governing powers and the violence of the mob, the new faith continued to make progress. For some years prior to 1590, 10,000 natives were, it was reckoned, annually gained over to Christianity; and the state of affairs certainly seemed to prove the truth of the saying that the blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church.
Seite 65 - O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure?
Seite 180 - In the general, that there shall be such a happy period as the millennium, that ' the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High,' Dan. vii. 27. that Christ shall have ' the heathen for his inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession,
Seite 106 - Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with me greet you. All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's household.