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... Rome the Eternal City was the mightiest , the most magnificent , and the most august . Some nations have possessed , and some now possess , an equal or a far greater extent of territory , or amount of population , in their realm , or ...
... Rome the Eternal City was the mightiest , the most magnificent , and the most august . Some nations have possessed , and some now possess , an equal or a far greater extent of territory , or amount of population , in their realm , or ...
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... Rome . In Asia , all the lands west of Mount Taurus , the river Euphrates , and the sandy deserts of Arabia , were comprized in the established and abiding bounds of the Empire : eastward of these limits , various countries were ...
... Rome . In Asia , all the lands west of Mount Taurus , the river Euphrates , and the sandy deserts of Arabia , were comprized in the established and abiding bounds of the Empire : eastward of these limits , various countries were ...
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... Rome for the Great Cæsar to be cut off at the time and under the circumstances of his assassination . Had the great Conqueror lived to have carried out his gigantic projects ; and thoroughly sub- duing the Parthian Power in the fair ...
... Rome for the Great Cæsar to be cut off at the time and under the circumstances of his assassination . Had the great Conqueror lived to have carried out his gigantic projects ; and thoroughly sub- duing the Parthian Power in the fair ...
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... Rome under the Imperial Monarchy , may indeed be censured and reprobated with exceeding severity when it is considered what monstrous tyrants it admitted to the supreme power . On the other hand , this system must be highly eulogized ...
... Rome under the Imperial Monarchy , may indeed be censured and reprobated with exceeding severity when it is considered what monstrous tyrants it admitted to the supreme power . On the other hand , this system must be highly eulogized ...
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... Rome ; and capital punishment being lavishly used in that age of the world , they directed all its severity against the Christians . In adopting terrible measures of repression against inimical religion- ists , the Pagan Emperors at any ...
... Rome ; and capital punishment being lavishly used in that age of the world , they directed all its severity against the Christians . In adopting terrible measures of repression against inimical religion- ists , the Pagan Emperors at any ...
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Page 20 - Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night : ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence, And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Page 13 - Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion : he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
Page 17 - Have not I commanded thee ? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Page 3 - The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend; That tyrant was Miltiades ! Oh ! that the present hour would lend Another despot of the kind ! Such chains as his were sure to bind.
Page 14 - In that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem ; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David ; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.
Page 18 - AGAIN to the battle, Achaians ! Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance ; Our land, the first garden of Liberty's tree — It has been, and shall yet be, the land of the free : For the cross of our faith is replanted, The pale dying crescent is daunted, And we march that the foot-prints of Mahomet's slaves May be washed out in blood from our forefathers
Page 19 - So he gat his people great honour, and put on a breastplate as a giant, and girt his warlike harness about him, and he made battles, protecting the host with his sword.
Page 19 - For he pursued the wicked, and sought them out, and burnt up those that vexed his people. Wherefore the wicked shrunk for fear of him, and all the workers of iniquity were troubled, because salvation prospered in the land.
Page 21 - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Page 19 - ... about him, and he made battles, protecting the host with his sword. In his acts he was like a lion, and like a lion's whelp roaring for his prey. For he pursued the wicked, and sought them oat, and burnt up those that vexed his people.