A View of Universal History, from the Creation to the Present Time: Including an Account of the Celebrated Revolutions in France, Poland, Sweden, Geneva &c. &c. Together with an Accurate and Impartial Narrative of the Late Military Operations; and Other Important Events, Volume 1G. Kearsley, 1795 - World history |
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... took many things from thofe pillars . Pythagoras and Plato read them , and borrowed from them many philofophical precepts . They ftood in fome fubterraneous apartments near Thebes , and were ftill remaining about the end of the fifth ...
... took many things from thofe pillars . Pythagoras and Plato read them , and borrowed from them many philofophical precepts . They ftood in fome fubterraneous apartments near Thebes , and were ftill remaining about the end of the fifth ...
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... took advantage of the proneness of the people to fuperftition , to plunge them into the groffeft idolatry . Learned themfelves , they impofed upon the ignorant and credulous vulgar ; and made them worship every thing in Nature but its ...
... took advantage of the proneness of the people to fuperftition , to plunge them into the groffeft idolatry . Learned themfelves , they impofed upon the ignorant and credulous vulgar ; and made them worship every thing in Nature but its ...
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... took Samaria , and Senacherib befieged Jerufalem ; but the angel of God deftroyed 185,000 of his army in one night . On his return from this expedition , he was murdered by his own fons , who were foon after cut off by Merodach . The ...
... took Samaria , and Senacherib befieged Jerufalem ; but the angel of God deftroyed 185,000 of his army in one night . On his return from this expedition , he was murdered by his own fons , who were foon after cut off by Merodach . The ...
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... took Babylon , and put an end to that monarchy ; that he permitted the Jews , by a decree , to return to their native land ; and that , by his conquefts , he laid the foundation of a great empire . He understood the art of war , and ...
... took Babylon , and put an end to that monarchy ; that he permitted the Jews , by a decree , to return to their native land ; and that , by his conquefts , he laid the foundation of a great empire . He understood the art of war , and ...
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... took their city , beat down their walls , and gave the inhabitants for a fpoil to the Perfians . After a reign of thirty - fix years , he declared Xerxes his fucceffor , and died . Xerxes invaded Greece with an innumerable army , re ...
... took their city , beat down their walls , and gave the inhabitants for a fpoil to the Perfians . After a reign of thirty - fix years , he declared Xerxes his fucceffor , and died . Xerxes invaded Greece with an innumerable army , re ...
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Page 244 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Page 411 - No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed, or outlawed, or banished, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
Page 374 - III. The nation is essentially the source of all sovereignty; nor can any individual, or any body of men, be entitled to any authority which is not expressly derived from it.
Page 195 - Caesar now commanded the cohorts to pursue their success, and advancing, charged Pompey's troops upon the flank ; this charge the enemy withstood for some time with great bravery, till he brought up his third line, which had not yet engaged. Pompey's infantry being thus doubly attacked, in front by fresh troops and in rear by the victorious cohorts, could no longer resist, but fled to their camp. The...
Page 432 - It is you," continued he to the members, " that have forced me upon this. I have sought the Lord night and day, that he would rather slay me than put me upon this work.
Page 283 - Very faint vestiges of the Roman policy, jurisprudence, arts, or literature remained. New forms of government, new laws, new manners, new dresses, new languages, and new names of men and countries, were every where introduced.
Page 432 - For shame," said he to the parliament, "get you gone; give place to honester men; to those who will more faithfully discharge their trust. You are no longer a parliament : I tell you, you are no longer a parliament. The Lord has done with you : he has chosen other instruments for carrying on his work.
Page 346 - sat on every face ; silence, as in the dead of night, reigned through all the chambers of the royal apartment ; the ladies and courtiers were ranged on each side...
Page 196 - Achilles, the commander of the forces, and Septimius, by birth a Roman, and who had formerly been a centurion in Pompey's army, were appointed to carry -their opinion into execution.
Page 194 - Caesar's soldiers were now rushing on with their usual impetuosity, when, perceiving the enemy motionless, they all stopped short, as if by general consent, and halted in the midst of their career. A terrible pause ensued, in which both armies continued to gaze upon each other with mutual terror and dreadful serenity.