The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians and Macedonians, Volume 8Andrus & Jud, 1836 |
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Pagina 10
... reduces him to fly into Pontus . Tragical end of the sisters and wives of Mithridates . He endeavours to retire to ... reduced all the cities of Pontus , he returns to Rome , and re- ceives the honour of a triumph BOOK XXIV . · Page 46 ...
... reduces him to fly into Pontus . Tragical end of the sisters and wives of Mithridates . He endeavours to retire to ... reduced all the cities of Pontus , he returns to Rome , and re- ceives the honour of a triumph BOOK XXIV . · Page 46 ...
Pagina 11
... death of An- tony and Cleopatra . Egypt is reduced into a province of the Roman empire Conclusion of the Ancient History The Chronological Table · · · 115 125 147 - 151 1 BOOK XXII . THE HISTORY OF SYRACUSE . THIS CONTENTS OF VOL . VIII .
... death of An- tony and Cleopatra . Egypt is reduced into a province of the Roman empire Conclusion of the Ancient History The Chronological Table · · · 115 125 147 - 151 1 BOOK XXII . THE HISTORY OF SYRACUSE . THIS CONTENTS OF VOL . VIII .
Pagina 22
... nec habere sciunt . Et non fermè desur- irarum indulgentes ministri , qui avidos atque intemperantes plebeiorum animos ad san- guinem et cædes irritent . Liv . reduced , or from her daughters , unhappy orphans , 22 HISTORY OF.
... nec habere sciunt . Et non fermè desur- irarum indulgentes ministri , qui avidos atque intemperantes plebeiorum animos ad san- guinem et cædes irritent . Liv . reduced , or from her daughters , unhappy orphans , 22 HISTORY OF.
Pagina 23
Charles Rollin, Robert Lynam. reduced , or from her daughters , unhappy orphans , without credit or support ? That if the royal family were become so odious to Syra cuse , that it could not bear the sight of them , they might be banish ...
Charles Rollin, Robert Lynam. reduced , or from her daughters , unhappy orphans , without credit or support ? That if the royal family were become so odious to Syra cuse , that it could not bear the sight of them , they might be banish ...
Pagina 29
... reduce the great number of people in the city by famine , in cutting off all provisions that might be brought to them either by sea or land During the eight months in which they besieged the city , there were no kind of stratagems which ...
... reduce the great number of people in the city by famine , in cutting off all provisions that might be brought to them either by sea or land During the eight months in which they besieged the city , there were no kind of stratagems which ...
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Pagina 146 - Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Pagina 39 - Let others better mould the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass, And soften into flesh a marble face; Plead better at the bar; describe the skies, And when the stars descend, and when they rise: But, Rome! 'tis thine alone, with awful sway, « To rule mankind, and make the world obey, Disposing peace and war thy own majestic way; To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free: These are imperial arts, and worthy thee.
Pagina 138 - ... into an immediate heaviness and stupefaction, attended with a slight sweating upon the face and a numbness of all the organs of sense, gently extinguished life ; so that those in that condition were angry when any one awakened them, or endeavoured to make them rise, like people exceedingly sleepy. This was the poison she fixed upon. To dispel Antony's suspicions and subjects of complaint, she applied herself with more than ordinary solicitude in caressing him. Though she celebrated her own birth-day...
Pagina 77 - Asia, and was honoured by the people almost with adoration. His pride was inflamed and supported by the immense riches he possessed, by the excessive and continual praises of his flatterers, and by a prosperity which had never known an interruption. He knew no law but his own will, and assumed the title of king of kings! So far did he carry his pride as to be waited on by crowned heads.
Pagina 146 - Babylonish king, by a colossal image, " terrible in its form and brightness," of which the " head was of pure gold," the " breast and arms of silver," the " belly and thighs of brass," and the legs and feet "of iron, and of iron mingled with clay.
Pagina 140 - ... caused himself to be carried to the fort where she had shut herself up. Cleopatra would not permit the gates to be opened to give him entrance, for fear of some surprise; but she- appeared at a high window, from whence she threw down chains and cords.
Pagina 35 - Marcellus, may be a lasting and an eternal monument of the valour and clemency of him who took and preserved it. It is unjust that the remembrance of Hieronymus should have more weight with you than that of Hiero. The latter was much longer your friend than the former your enemy. Permit me to say, you have experienced the good effects of the amity of Hiero, but the senseless enterprises of Hieronymus .have fallen solely upon his own head.
Pagina 140 - Cleopatra's other infidelities; and struck with the idea of her death, passed immediately from excess of rage to the most violent transports of grief, and thought only of following her to the grave. Having taken this...
Pagina 140 - Antony, all bathed in his blood, with death painted in his face, was dragged up into the air, turning his dying eyes, and extending his feeble hands to Cleopatra, as if to conjure her to receive his last breath ; while she, with her features distorted, and her arms strained, pulled the cord with her whole strength.