The Rise and Fall of Nations: Ancient and mediaevalC. A. Nichols, 1907 - Civilization |
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ancient army Aryan Asia Minor Asiatic Assyrian Athens Babylon Babylonia barbaric battle became Belisarius Britain brought Cæsar called Canaan capital career century B. C. Charlemagne CHIEF CHARACTERS Christian church civilization coast conquest Constantinople crown crusade culture Cyrus death died A. D. dominion duke dynasty early east eastern Egypt Egyptian emperor England English EPOCH Euphrates feudal force France Franks Gaul gave German Goths Greece Greek Hammurabi Henry Hyksos imperial influence invaders island Israel Italy Jerusalem Jewish Judah king kingdom known land later literature Manetho Medes mediæval Mediterranean modern monarchy nation neighbors Norman northern Ostrogothic papacy peninsula period Persian Persian empire pharaohs Phoenicians political pope princes race Ramses II reign religious revolt Roman empire Rome Saxons seems Semitic Sicily soldiers sovereign sovereignty Spain spirit Stilicho subjugated successor Syria throne tion took tribes Visigoths whole
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Page 330 - Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest : go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven : and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
Page 219 - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Page 216 - When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person : see ye to it.
Page 130 - God had raised, to go up to build the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem. And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all that was willingly offered.
Page 97 - Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand. 20 And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land.
Page 206 - Rome was at the head, into contact with the lands and nations which were to play the greatest part in later times, with Gaul, Germany and Britain3.
Page 333 - I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of life, who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified, who spake by the Prophets.
Page 79 - And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln : and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon.
Page 250 - ... attributed to him, but to whose character romance has done no more than justice, and who appears in exactly the same light in history and in fable. No other man on record has ever so thoroughly united all the virtues both of the ruler and of the private man.
Page 154 - ... an unfeeling heart, and a cowardly disposition, prompted him at the age of nineteen to assume the mask of hypocrisy, which he never afterwards laid aside. With the same hand, and probably with the same temper, he signed the proscription of Cicero and the pardon of Cinna. His virtues, and even his vices, were artificial ; and according to the various dictates of his interest, he was at first the enemy, and at last the father, of the Roman world.