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... never of fur.-T. 120 Sauromate . ] - This people were also called Sarmatæ or Sarmatians . It may perhaps tend to excite some novel and interesting ideas in the mind of the English reader , when he is informed , that among a people rude ...
... never of fur.-T. 120 Sauromate . ] - This people were also called Sarmatæ or Sarmatians . It may perhaps tend to excite some novel and interesting ideas in the mind of the English reader , when he is informed , that among a people rude ...
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Herodotus. pens that many women die single at an advanced age , having never been able to fulfil the conditions required . CXVIII . To these nations , which I have described , assembled in council , the Scythian ambassadors were admitted ...
Herodotus. pens that many women die single at an advanced age , having never been able to fulfil the conditions required . CXVIII . To these nations , which I have described , assembled in council , the Scythian ambassadors were admitted ...
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... never failed of driving back the cavalry of the Persians , but these last , in falling back upon their infantry , were always secured and supported . The Scy- thians , notwithstanding their advantage over the Persian horse , always ...
... never failed of driving back the cavalry of the Persians , but these last , in falling back upon their infantry , were always secured and supported . The Scy- thians , notwithstanding their advantage over the Persian horse , always ...
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... never heard , and figures they had never seen this was of some importance in the progress of hostilities . CXXX . The Scythians , discovering that the Persians were in extreme perplexity , hoped that by detaining them longer in their ...
... never heard , and figures they had never seen this was of some importance in the progress of hostilities . CXXX . The Scythians , discovering that the Persians were in extreme perplexity , hoped that by detaining them longer in their ...
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... never again make war upon any one . " 66 66 66 CXXXVII . The Ionians being met in council upon this subject , Miltiades , the Athenian leader , and prince of the Chersonese 12 , on the Helles- pont , was of opinion that the advice of ...
... never again make war upon any one . " 66 66 66 CXXXVII . The Ionians being met in council upon this subject , Miltiades , the Athenian leader , and prince of the Chersonese 12 , on the Helles- pont , was of opinion that the advice of ...
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Page 475 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 356 - I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
Page 357 - Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Page 99 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 115 - And upon a set day, Herod arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. And the people gave a shout, saying ; It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory ; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Page 311 - And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the Lord, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them.
Page 356 - This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth...
Page 101 - And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
Page 121 - Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims play ! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day.
Page 270 - We greet not here as man conversing man, Met at an oak, or journeying o'er a plain; No season now for calm familiar talk, Like youths and maidens in an evening walk; War is our business, but to whom is given To die or triumph, that determine Heaven!