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Accadian Ægean Alexander ancient army artists Aryan Asia Minor Asiatic Assyrian Athenians Athens Attica Babylon Babylonian battle became body called capital century B.C. Chaldæan character civilization conqueror conquest Croesus culture Cyrus Darius death Dorian Dynasty early East Egypt Egyptian empire Euphrates Europe expedition gods Grecian Greece Greek cities Hebrew Hellas Hellenic Hellespont Herodotus heroes Homeric honor hundred influence inscriptions Ionian island king kingdom known land legends literature Lydia Macedonian Medes Mediterranean monarch monuments mounds mountains Nabopolassar nations Nebuchadnezzar Nile Nineveh oracle palace Pelasgian Peloponnesian Peloponnesus Pericles period Persian Persian Empire Pharaohs philosophers Phoenician poets political possession priests Psammetichus Ptolemy pyramids race Rameses region reign religion religious renowned revolt Roman royal ruins sacred Sargon says sculptures Semitic shores Solon Spartans story tablets temple Theban Thebes Themistocles thousand Tigris tion tribes Turanian valley vast walls worship Xerxes Zeus
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Page 353 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears : we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing...
Page 175 - Greek legend, a monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.
Page 98 - God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Page 78 - I captured and carried off as spoil 200,150 people, old and young, male and female, together with horses and mares, asses and camels, oxen and sheep, a countless multitude. And Hezekiah himself I shut up in Jerusalem, his capital city, like a bird in a cage...
Page 75 - Whoever shall abrade or injure my tablets and cylinders, or shall moisten them with water, or scorch them with fire, or expose them to the air, or in the holy place of God shall assign them a...
Page 26 - And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Page 295 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows; Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod; ' The stamp of fate and sanction of the god: High heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
Page 219 - Death in the pass, the defence of which had been intrusted to them, was all that Spartan honor and Spartan law now left them. The next day, surrounded by the Persian host, they fought with desperate valor; but, overwhelmed by mere numbers, they were slain to the last man.
Page 109 - In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Page 333 - Wherefore we ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him, is to become holy, just, and wise.