The Edinburgh encyclopaedia, conducted by D. Brewster, 第 3 卷 |
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... length , how- ever , the Persians retiring , resigned their claim to the honours of victory . The Greeks , however , had suf- fered so much , that it appeared impossible to fight such another battle . It was at last determined to retire ...
... length , how- ever , the Persians retiring , resigned their claim to the honours of victory . The Greeks , however , had suf- fered so much , that it appeared impossible to fight such another battle . It was at last determined to retire ...
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... length recalled Sparta to more honourable sentiments . She collected her own force and that of her allies , marched it beyond the isthmus , and joined the Athenians . The combined armies , next summer , fought the battle of Platea , in ...
... length recalled Sparta to more honourable sentiments . She collected her own force and that of her allies , marched it beyond the isthmus , and joined the Athenians . The combined armies , next summer , fought the battle of Platea , in ...
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... length , foreseeing nothing but dis- Peace with aster from the prosecution of an Athenian war , made proposals of peace . Athens obtained the most ho- nourable conditions : the independence of the Gre- cian colonies in Asia Minor , and ...
... length , foreseeing nothing but dis- Peace with aster from the prosecution of an Athenian war , made proposals of peace . Athens obtained the most ho- nourable conditions : the independence of the Gre- cian colonies in Asia Minor , and ...
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Edinburgh encyclopaedia sir David Brewster. stance , joined to difficulty of subsistence , at length Athens . induced the confederate army to withdraw . Next summer , Attica was exposed to a similar in- vasion , and the same ... length ...
Edinburgh encyclopaedia sir David Brewster. stance , joined to difficulty of subsistence , at length Athens . induced the confederate army to withdraw . Next summer , Attica was exposed to a similar in- vasion , and the same ... length ...
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... length reduced to such an extremity , that their fall seemed rapidly approaching . . The Lacedemonians could not observe , without the most extreme jealousy , the progress of the Athe- Athens . nian arms . Alcibiades , whose resentment ...
... length reduced to such an extremity , that their fall seemed rapidly approaching . . The Lacedemonians could not observe , without the most extreme jealousy , the progress of the Athe- Athens . nian arms . Alcibiades , whose resentment ...
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第 165 頁 - 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.
第 165 頁 - 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.
第 101 頁 - 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.
第 168 頁 - 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.
第 168 頁 - 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.
第 58 頁 - 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.
第 66 頁 - 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...
第 181 頁 - 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.
第 165 頁 - 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.
第 337 頁 - ... 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...