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... hand above water , and his armour with his teeth , which must have been a great exertion of strength . He rode also on horseback a great deal , and could keep his seat so well , that when the horse went at full gallop , he often put his ...
... hand above water , and his armour with his teeth , which must have been a great exertion of strength . He rode also on horseback a great deal , and could keep his seat so well , that when the horse went at full gallop , he often put his ...
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... hands , and done many other acts of cruelty . He persuaded about thirty of his friends to agree that they would set fire to the city in several places at once , murder the consuls , massacre the whole senate , and then declare Catiline ...
... hands , and done many other acts of cruelty . He persuaded about thirty of his friends to agree that they would set fire to the city in several places at once , murder the consuls , massacre the whole senate , and then declare Catiline ...
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... hands is " Cæsar's Commentaries , " which are very entertaining , and so clever that they show that he was not merely a brave gene- ral , but also a good writer . In those ancient times , it was not so common for people to compose books ...
... hands is " Cæsar's Commentaries , " which are very entertaining , and so clever that they show that he was not merely a brave gene- ral , but also a good writer . In those ancient times , it was not so common for people to compose books ...
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... hands , or hire some writer to do it for them , and this made it so very expensive to collect a library , that the richest man at Rome could scarcely afford to procure more books than even school boys now usually have . In those days ...
... hands , or hire some writer to do it for them , and this made it so very expensive to collect a library , that the richest man at Rome could scarcely afford to procure more books than even school boys now usually have . In those days ...
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... hands of murderers . In the mean time , Cæsar had never before been opposed to a general as brave and as skilful as himself , so that he was not on this occasion so constantly victorious as he had been formerly . Several battles took ...
... hands of murderers . In the mean time , Cæsar had never before been opposed to a general as brave and as skilful as himself , so that he was not on this occasion so constantly victorious as he had been formerly . Several battles took ...
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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.