From the creation of the world to the accession of Philip of MacedonJ., Murray, 1873 |
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Abraham Achæans ancient Armenia army Aryan Asia Minor Asiatic Assyrian Astyages Athenians Athens Babylon Babylonian battle Berosus called Cambyses captives Chaldæan character chief chronology civilization coast colonies conquest Croesus Cushite Cyaxares Cyrus Darius death Desert Divine Dorian Dynasty earliest earth east Egypt Egyptian empire epoch Ethiopian Euphrates Exodus fleet Greece Greek Hamite Hebrew Hellenic Herodotus historian inscriptions Ionian island Israel Israelites Judah king kingdom Lacedæmonians land language later legends Magian Manetho Mardonius maritime Medes Median monarchy monuments Moses mountains nations Nebuchadnezzar Nile Nineveh Noah northern numbers original patriarchal Peloponnesus peninsula Pericles period Persian Persian Empire Pharaoh Phoenician plain priests probably prophet proved Psammetichus pyramid race Rameses Rawlinson records reign religion revolt river ruins sacred Scripture seems seen Semitic Shem shores Sparta Spartans story temple Thebes Tigris tombs tradition tribes Turanian valley victory western whole worship Xerxes
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الصفحة 426 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships by thousands lay below, And men in nations; — all were his! He counted them at break of day, And when the sun set, where were they?
الصفحة 297 - I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
الصفحة 232 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
الصفحة 166 - In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
الصفحة 343 - Look once more ere we leave this specular mount Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence...
الصفحة 146 - But as for you, ye thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
الصفحة 301 - The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook : And of those...
الصفحة 492 - Satan except, none higher sat, with grave Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed A pillar of state; deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat and public care; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin: sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air...
الصفحة 380 - The sun, the soil, but not the slave, the same; Unchanged in all except its foreign lord— Preserves alike its bounds and boundless fame The battle-field, where Persia's victim horde First bow'd beneath the brunt of Hellas...
الصفحة 230 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...