The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonian, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians, Volume 81774 |
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Pagina 13
... use the advantage of having in his dominions the most learned geometrician the world had ever produced ; it is plain I mean Archimedes . He was illuftrious , not only by his great ability in geometry , but his birth , as he was Hiero's ...
... use the advantage of having in his dominions the most learned geometrician the world had ever produced ; it is plain I mean Archimedes . He was illuftrious , not only by his great ability in geometry , but his birth , as he was Hiero's ...
Pagina 22
... ftill more , if they did " not proceed to use them till the laft extremity : That at " prefent ( r ) A. M. 3790. Ant . J. C. 214. Liv . 1. xxiv . n . 21 , - -35 . ( 6 prefent it was his advice to fend deputies 22 THE HISTORY.
... ftill more , if they did " not proceed to use them till the laft extremity : That at " prefent ( r ) A. M. 3790. Ant . J. C. 214. Liv . 1. xxiv . n . 21 , - -35 . ( 6 prefent it was his advice to fend deputies 22 THE HISTORY.
Pagina 25
... use it ; and has always too many flatterers ready to enter into its paffions , enflame its rage , and hurry it on to ex- ceffive violences , and the most inhuman cruelties , to which it is but too much inclined of itself ; as was the ...
... use it ; and has always too many flatterers ready to enter into its paffions , enflame its rage , and hurry it on to ex- ceffive violences , and the most inhuman cruelties , to which it is but too much inclined of itself ; as was the ...
Pagina 31
... use , from which the oars were removed , from half on the right , and from the other half on the left fide . These were joined together , two and two , on the fides without oars . This machine confifted of a ladder of the breadth of ...
... use , from which the oars were removed , from half on the right , and from the other half on the left fide . These were joined together , two and two , on the fides without oars . This machine confifted of a ladder of the breadth of ...
Pagina 39
... That they never had fo favourable an opportu nity as the prefent , when they were just delivered from the violent government of their tyrants ; and that the first use .66 " " they " they ought to make of their liberty , was OF 39 SYRACUSE .
... That they never had fo favourable an opportu nity as the prefent , when they were just delivered from the violent government of their tyrants ; and that the first use .66 " " they " they ought to make of their liberty , was OF 39 SYRACUSE .
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Pagina 141 - It may be said, this last quotation is not conclusive, since it does not indicate the manner in which the bucket was elevated — by a windlass 1 a pulley ] or by the hand alone 1 We have satisfactory evidence that it was by the latter.
Pagina 161 - ... window, from whence she threw down chains and cords. Antony was made fast to these, and Cleopatra, assisted by two women, who were the only persons she had brought with her to the tombs, drew him up.
Pagina 33 - Archimedes was going to discharge some dreadful machine upon them, renounced his hopes of being able to make a breach in the place, gave over his attacks, and turned the siege into a blockade. The Romans conceived...
Pagina 40 - From the Romans all their requests were easily obtained, and their safety ran no hazard from that quarter : there was more danger from...
Pagina 195 - Caesar the embassadors of the Jews are introduced into the senate, and obtain their whole request. The Jews of Asia confirmed in their privilege of not being compelled to serve in the wars. A comet seen in China. 43 Cleopatra poisons her brother when he comes of age to share the sovereign authority according to the laws. She afterwards declares for the Roman triumviri. The second triumvirate of Octavius, Antony and Lepidus began Nov. 27. Cicero put to death Dec. 7. Battle of Mutina. Cassius demands...
Pagina 33 - Shall we persist," said he, to his workmen and engineers, " in making war with this Briareus of a geometrician, who treats my galleys and sambuc» so rudely ? He infinitely exceeds the fabled giants •with their hundred hands, in his perpetual and surprising discharge upon us.
Pagina 42 - Syracuse, shut up in his closet like a man of another world, who hag no regard for what is passing in this, was intent upon the study of some geometrical figure, and not only his eyes, but the whole faculties of his soul, were so engaged in this contemplation, that he had neither heard the tumult of the Romans, universally busy in plundering, nor the report of the city's being taken.