Outlines of History: Illustrated by Numerous Geographical and Historical Notes and Maps : Embracing : Part I. Ancient History, Part II. Modern HistoryIvison & Phinney, 1858 - 600 páginas |
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... head of the entire system of the universe . He is supreme over all : earthly monarchs derive their authority from him , and his will is fate . He is generally represented as majestic in appearance , seated on a throne , with a sceptre ...
... head of the entire system of the universe . He is supreme over all : earthly monarchs derive their authority from him , and his will is fate . He is generally represented as majestic in appearance , seated on a throne , with a sceptre ...
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... head , and winged sandals on his feet . In his hand he bears his wand or staff , with wings at its extremity , and two serpents twined about it . 3. Mars , the god of war , was of huge size and prodigious strength , and his voice was ...
... head , and winged sandals on his feet . In his hand he bears his wand or staff , with wings at its extremity , and two serpents twined about it . 3. Mars , the god of war , was of huge size and prodigious strength , and his voice was ...
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... head : she wears a long tunic or ne , and bears a spear in one hand , and an ægis or shield , on which is a figure of the Gorgon's head , in the other . 3. Céres was the goddess of grain and harvests . The most celebrated event in her ...
... head : she wears a long tunic or ne , and bears a spear in one hand , and an ægis or shield , on which is a figure of the Gorgon's head , in the other . 3. Céres was the goddess of grain and harvests . The most celebrated event in her ...
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... head- ed dog Cer ' berus ; the Cen ' taurs , half men and half horses ; the Ler'nean Hy'dra , a famous water serpent ; and Scyl'la and Charyb'- dis , fearful sea monsters , the one changed into a rock , and the other into a whirlpool on ...
... head- ed dog Cer ' berus ; the Cen ' taurs , half men and half horses ; the Ler'nean Hy'dra , a famous water serpent ; and Scyl'la and Charyb'- dis , fearful sea monsters , the one changed into a rock , and the other into a whirlpool on ...
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... head of the 19th dynasty ) , 1473. Eusebius , followed by Usher and Playfair , supposes that Sesos ' tris was the immediate successor of the Pharaoh who was drowned in the Red Sea ; while Marsham , followed by Newton , attempts to ...
... head of the 19th dynasty ) , 1473. Eusebius , followed by Usher and Playfair , supposes that Sesos ' tris was the immediate successor of the Pharaoh who was drowned in the Red Sea ; while Marsham , followed by Newton , attempts to ...
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Página 330 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must forever hide me. Vain pomp, and glory of this world, I hate ye ; I feel my heart new opened : O, how wretched Is that poor man, that hangs on princes...
Página 40 - And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
Página 61 - Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.
Página 348 - ... in the seventieth year of her age, and the forty-fifth of her reign.
Página 330 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
Página 12 - ... to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day, and over the night, to be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years.
Página 277 - To speak the truth, to succor the helpless and oppressed, and never to turn back from an enemy," was the first vow of the aspirant to the honors of chivalry.
Página 250 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
Página 39 - Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt...
Página 64 - Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.