A History of the World from the Earliest Records to the Present Time: From the creation of the world to the accession of Philip of MacedonD. Appleton, 1865 - History, Ancient |
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... whole , moving onwards , under the guidance of Divine Providence , to the unknown end ordained in the Divine purposes . Such a work , to be really useful , must be condensed into a moderate compass ; else the powers of the writer would ...
... whole , moving onwards , under the guidance of Divine Providence , to the unknown end ordained in the Divine purposes . Such a work , to be really useful , must be condensed into a moderate compass ; else the powers of the writer would ...
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... whole world has history , as much as each separate nation . Amidst all the severing forces of climate , colour , language , interest , and animos- ity , our race forms a complete whole . One in its origin , one even in its true ...
... whole world has history , as much as each separate nation . Amidst all the severing forces of climate , colour , language , interest , and animos- ity , our race forms a complete whole . One in its origin , one even in its true ...
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... whole moral government of God . Nor is the historian unconcerned with the working of those laws . The actions he has to relate are so connected with the motives of the actors , the external facts with their causes in human nature , that ...
... whole moral government of God . Nor is the historian unconcerned with the working of those laws . The actions he has to relate are so connected with the motives of the actors , the external facts with their causes in human nature , that ...
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... whole network of fibres that lead over Asia , Africa , and Europe . The only strictly " lon- gitudinal " treatment of history is that which embraces the whole annals of the human race ; and such a treatment becomes possible , when aided ...
... whole network of fibres that lead over Asia , Africa , and Europe . The only strictly " lon- gitudinal " treatment of history is that which embraces the whole annals of the human race ; and such a treatment becomes possible , when aided ...
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... whole series - than the story of the breaking up of the Western Empire into the medieval states ? Who has not looked forward - with a despair as to the method almost equalled by his interest in the subject - upon the long story of the ...
... whole series - than the story of the breaking up of the Western Empire into the medieval states ? Who has not looked forward - with a despair as to the method almost equalled by his interest in the subject - upon the long story of the ...
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Page 140 - Tunes her nocturnal note: thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 295 - I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Page 34 - These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Page 242 - Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
Page 287 - Laud be to God ! — even there my life must end. It hath been prophesied to me many years, I should not die but in Jerusalem ; Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land. — But bear me to that chamber ; there I'll lie ; In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.
Page 50 - These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
Page 164 - In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Page 235 - One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end...
Page 228 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 460 - While kings, in dusty darkness hid, Have left a nameless pyramid, Thy heroes, though the general doom Hath swept the column from their tomb, A mightier monument command, The mountains of their native land ! There points thy Muse to stranger's eye The graves of those that cannot die ! Twere long to tell, and sad to trace, Each step from splendour to disgrace; Enough — no foreign foe could quell Thy soul, till from itself it fell ; Yes ! Self-abasement paved the way To villain-bonds and despot sway.