The Historical Reader: Designed for Use of Schools and Families. On a New PlanHoratio Hill & Company; Hill & Barton, printers, 1830 - 372 ページ |
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... Persia . The Assyrian was one of the four universal monarchies , and was the first empire that ever existed . Her kings usually styled themselves , by way of eminence , king of kings ; and it is probable , from the most correct accounts ...
... Persia . The Assyrian was one of the four universal monarchies , and was the first empire that ever existed . Her kings usually styled themselves , by way of eminence , king of kings ; and it is probable , from the most correct accounts ...
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... Persia , took the city of Babylon , by turning the river Eu- phrates , and marching his troops through its former channel , while the people were celebrating a grand festival . From this period , Babylon experienced a rapid decay , till ...
... Persia , took the city of Babylon , by turning the river Eu- phrates , and marching his troops through its former channel , while the people were celebrating a grand festival . From this period , Babylon experienced a rapid decay , till ...
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... Persians by Cambyses . But they were soon delivered from Persian tyranny , by Alexander , and annexed to his own extensive em- pire . From the time of their being subdued by Cambyses , How was the employment or occupations of the ...
... Persians by Cambyses . But they were soon delivered from Persian tyranny , by Alexander , and annexed to his own extensive em- pire . From the time of their being subdued by Cambyses , How was the employment or occupations of the ...
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... Persians and Greeks . After the death of Alexander , Egypt was governed by a succession of kings , for nearly two hundred years ; and was then reduced to the condition of a Roman province . 8. Few nations have been more subject to the ...
... Persians and Greeks . After the death of Alexander , Egypt was governed by a succession of kings , for nearly two hundred years ; and was then reduced to the condition of a Roman province . 8. Few nations have been more subject to the ...
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... Persian ar- my could enter Achaia , and advance to besiege Athens . This was the place where the Grecian army thought fit to wait for the enemy - the person who commanded it was Le- onidas , one of the two kings of Sparta . The whole ...
... Persian ar- my could enter Achaia , and advance to besiege Athens . This was the place where the Grecian army thought fit to wait for the enemy - the person who commanded it was Le- onidas , one of the two kings of Sparta . The whole ...
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157 ページ - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
157 ページ - Air, and ye elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
22 ページ - Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such a world. To see the stir Of the great Babel and not feel the crowd. To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
69 ページ - THOU hast left them to their own. But, present still, though now unseen ; When brightly shines the prosperous day, Be thoughts of THEE a cloudy screen To temper the deceitful ray. And...
104 ページ - Cease, then, nor Order, Imperfection name—• Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee. Submit; — in this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear — Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
68 ページ - When Israel, of the Lord beloved, Out from the land of bondage came, Her father's God before her moved, An awful guide, in smoke and flame. By day, along the astonished lands, . The cloudy pillar glided slow ; By night, Arabia's crimsoned sands Returned the fiery column's glow.
103 ページ - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God begau ; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach ; from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing.
349 ページ - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
329 ページ - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
256 ページ - ... neither would he compare the friendship between him and them to a Chain, for the rain might sometimes rust it, or a tree might fall and break it; but he should consider them as the same flesh and blood with the Christians, and the same as if one man's body were to be divided into two parts.