Outlines of History: Illustrated by Numerous Geographical and Historical Notes and Maps : Embracing : Part I. Ancient History : Part II. Modern HistoryIvison, Blakeman, Taylor & Company, 1854 - 600 էջ |
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... miles from the south - eastern borders of the Black Sea . The sources of the Tigris are in the same region , but farther south . The general direction of both rivers is south - east , to their entrance into the head of the Persian Gulf ...
... miles from the south - eastern borders of the Black Sea . The sources of the Tigris are in the same region , but farther south . The general direction of both rivers is south - east , to their entrance into the head of the Persian Gulf ...
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... miles in width , is indebted wholly to the annual inundations of the Nile for its fertility and without them , would soon become a barren waste . The river begins to swell , in its higher parts , in April ; but at the Delta no increase ...
... miles in width , is indebted wholly to the annual inundations of the Nile for its fertility and without them , would soon become a barren waste . The river begins to swell , in its higher parts , in April ; but at the Delta no increase ...
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... miles in length . According to this computation the city embraced an area of 225 square miles . But Diodorus reduces the supposed area to 72 square miles ; -equal , however , to three and a half times the area of London , with all its ...
... miles in length . According to this computation the city embraced an area of 225 square miles . But Diodorus reduces the supposed area to 72 square miles ; -equal , however , to three and a half times the area of London , with all its ...
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... miles , with an average width of fifty miles . The greatest length of the Moréa , which is from north to south , is about one hundred and forty miles . The whole area of the country so renowned in history under the name of Greece or Hel ...
... miles , with an average width of fifty miles . The greatest length of the Moréa , which is from north to south , is about one hundred and forty miles . The whole area of the country so renowned in history under the name of Greece or Hel ...
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... miles from the bottom of the Gulf of Argos , and on the western side of a plain ten or twelve miles in length , and four or five in width . The eastern side of the plain is dry and barren , and here were situated Tir ' yns , from which ...
... miles from the bottom of the Gulf of Argos , and on the western side of a plain ten or twelve miles in length , and four or five in width . The eastern side of the plain is dry and barren , and here were situated Tir ' yns , from which ...
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Outlines of History: Illustrated by Numerous Geographical and Historical ... Marcius Willson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1872 |
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Էջ 414 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait ; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And winter barricades the realms of Frost ; He comes, nor want nor cold his course delay; — Hide, blushing Glory, hide Pultowa's day...
Էջ 38 - Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt...
Էջ 182 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Էջ 13 - ... to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day, and over the night, to be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years.
Էջ 182 - This was the most unkindest cut of all ; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitors...
Էջ 328 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Էջ 39 - And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
Էջ 40 - And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD : for he had nine hundred chariots of iron ; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
Էջ 59 - Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.
Էջ 63 - Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.