Peter Parley's Annual: A Christmas and New Year's Present for Young People..William Martin Darton and Company, 1866 |
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... Romans were approaching under Titus , there were two great parties in the city - bitter Zealots ; one party being ... Romans . However , the party differences of the defenders of the city were much diminished by the suppression of the ...
... Romans were approaching under Titus , there were two great parties in the city - bitter Zealots ; one party being ... Romans . However , the party differences of the defenders of the city were much diminished by the suppression of the ...
Էջ 40
... Romans , they shook defiance in the face of their legions . After further efforts on the part of Titus to save the ... Romans and crucified before the walls : but these demon- strations were ineffectual . The first breach in the outer ...
... Romans , they shook defiance in the face of their legions . After further efforts on the part of Titus to save the ... Romans and crucified before the walls : but these demon- strations were ineffectual . The first breach in the outer ...
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... Romans , rushing in through the breach , opened the gates and got possession of the new city , the Jews retiring behind the second wall . The Roman camp was then removed to the conquered ground after the greater part of the outer wall ...
... Romans , rushing in through the breach , opened the gates and got possession of the new city , the Jews retiring behind the second wall . The Roman camp was then removed to the conquered ground after the greater part of the outer wall ...
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... Roman soldiers in eleven days , through one of those exertions of concentrated energy and application which they alone , in that age , were capable of employing . Having accomplished their work , the Romans resumed their operations ...
... Roman soldiers in eleven days , through one of those exertions of concentrated energy and application which they alone , in that age , were capable of employing . Having accomplished their work , the Romans resumed their operations ...
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... Romans , and makes use of them for the destruction of a guilty nation . The Temple now became the great object of interest to all parties . The Jews were , for the most part , confident that it never could be taken , and expected some ...
... Romans , and makes use of them for the destruction of a guilty nation . The Temple now became the great object of interest to all parties . The Jews were , for the most part , confident that it never could be taken , and expected some ...
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Alfred amusement angle Anne Boleyn ball BARNABY RUDGE beautiful boat bowl Bruges bull called cheer Christmas colour cross and pile delight ditto DOMBEY AND SON England English ENGRAVINGS equal eyes feet Fieldfare fire flowers French George Measom girls glass glory gold golden hours Greek boys hand head heard heart holy honour hoops king leaped lion LITTLE DORRIT London look manufacture marbles MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT Miltiades Moon morning mother natives never noble PARLEY'S ANNUAL PICKWICK PAPERS pins play players poor pottery pretty Prince prize quoit quum Railway rises or sets Romans round Sally Sharpus SHILLING side SKETCHES BY BOZ soon sport square star stones streets Sunday after Trinity tail Temple thee thing thou tiger town trees turn wall WEST CORNWALL RAILWAYS whole Wolsey young youth
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Էջ 336 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night — It was the plant and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Էջ 136 - Well, well, Master Kingston," quoth he, "I see the matter against me how it is framed; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Էջ 145 - In any right-angled triangle, the square which is described on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares described on the sides which contain the right angle.
Էջ 46 - ... their booty from this and other spoliations, that gold in Syria speedily fell to one half its former value. In the confusion, the Zealots and robbers, who had the defence of the place, succeeded in forcing their way through the upper city, there to make their last stand. The plundering and butchering being over for the present, the Romans carried their standards around the burning Temple, and set them up before the eastern gate, where they offered sacrifices, and saluted Titus as
Էջ 38 - The two great parties concurred in defence of the city; but when the urgent occasion had passed, they turned their arms against each other. Thus there was two-fold war, and the lifeblood of Jerusalem was drained without respite. John defended the temple and the Castle of Antonia, and Simon the rest of the city. The space which their previous devastations had cleared within the city, served them for a field of battle against each other ; from which, when occasion required, they unanimously hastened...
Էջ 135 - Having alighted, he immediately took his chamber and went to bed, where his sickness still increased. Three days after, " on Tuesday even, master Kingston came to him, and bade him good-morrow, for it was about six of the clock, and asked him how he did. Sir, quoth he, I tarry but the pleasure of God, to render up my poor soul into His hands.