The History of Ancient Greece, Its Colonies and Conquests: From the Earliest Accounts Till the Division of the Macedonian Empire in the East : Including the History of Literature, Philosophy, and the Fine Arts, 第 4 巻

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M'Dermut & Arden, 1814
 

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189 ページ - Olympic, and Pythian, where proclamation shall be duly made of that crown, now by us conferred on the people of Athens, that all Greece may be informed of the magnanimity of Athens, and the gratitude of the Byzantines and Perinthians.
68 ページ - Suppose he should meet some fatal stroke; you would soon raise up another Philip, if your interests are thus regarded; for it is not to his own strength that he so much owes his elevation as to our supineness.
385 ページ - He was of a low stature, and somewhat deformed ; but the activity and elevation of his mind animated and ennobled his frame. By a life of continual...
33 ページ - That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head.
38 ページ - Know that a son is born to us. We thank the gods not so much for their gift", as for bestowing it at a time when Aristotle lives. We assure ourselves that you will form him a prince worthy of his father, and worthy of Macedon.
372 ページ - Euphrates ; carefully examined the nature of the soil ; and having discovered, at the distance of about four miles from the inosculation of the Euphrates and Pallacopas, a hard and rocky bottom, he commanded a canal to be cut there, which served to moderate the inundations at one season, without too much draining the waters at another. Having performed this essential service to Assyria, he followed the course of the Pallacopas, and surveyed the lakes and Builds a marshes, which guard the Arabian...
393 ページ - ... confide, not in your fastnesses, but in your valour. By his wisdom and discipline, he trained you to arts and civility, enriched you with mines of gold, instructed you in navigation and commerce, and rendered you a terror to those nations, at whose names you used to tremble. Need I mention hisconquests in Upper Thrace, or those still more valuable in the maritime provinces of that country ? Having...
288 ページ - This inestimable booty was afterwards seized by order of Alexander, who found in the camp a booty more precious — the wife and daughters of Darius, his mother Sysigambis, and his infant son. In an age when prisoners of war were synonymous with slaves, Alexander behaved to his royal captives with the tenderness of a parent, blended with the respect of a son.
386 ページ - ... through the greatest nations of the earth. It may be suspected, indeed, that he mistook the extent of human power, when in the course of one reign he undertook to change the face of the world ; and that he miscalculated the stubbornness of ignorance and the force of habit, when he attempted to enlighten barbarism, to soften servitude, and to transplant the improvements of Greece into an African and Asiatic soil, where they have never been known...
363 ページ - On board this fleet the king embarked in person with the third division of his forces. — His navigation employed several months, being frequently retarded by hostilities^ with the natives, particularly the warlike tribes of the Malli.

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