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... hands , by what means can your purpose be accomplished ? " " The deed , " she answered , " shall be perpetrated in ... hand , got himself deputed to the court by his fellows , where he seduced the queen , and assassinated Candau- les ...
... hands , by what means can your purpose be accomplished ? " " The deed , " she answered , " shall be perpetrated in ... hand , got himself deputed to the court by his fellows , where he seduced the queen , and assassinated Candau- les ...
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... hands her blushing face conceal ; Deep in the ground he fix'd the murderous steel : Nor dare they once , in equal sorrow drown'd , Lift their dejected eye - lids from the ground . Circe beheld their guilt : she saw they fled From ...
... hands her blushing face conceal ; Deep in the ground he fix'd the murderous steel : Nor dare they once , in equal sorrow drown'd , Lift their dejected eye - lids from the ground . Circe beheld their guilt : she saw they fled From ...
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... hands , implored that he might suffer death up- on the body of him whom he had slain . He recited his former calamities ; to which was now to be added , that he was the destroyer of the man who had expiated him ; he was conse- quently ...
... hands , implored that he might suffer death up- on the body of him whom he had slain . He recited his former calamities ; to which was now to be added , that he was the destroyer of the man who had expiated him ; he was conse- quently ...
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... hands , implored that he might suffer death up - improper , once for all , to inform the English reader , that on the body of him whom he had slain . He the Apollo of Delphi was , to use Mr Bayle's words , the judge without appeal ; the ...
... hands , implored that he might suffer death up - improper , once for all , to inform the English reader , that on the body of him whom he had slain . He the Apollo of Delphi was , to use Mr Bayle's words , the judge without appeal ; the ...
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... hands : they received foreign ambassadors , levied troops , and gave the general his orders , whom they could recal tion , which they justified from the rewards they bestow- at pleasure . So many privileges secured them a venera- ed on ...
... hands : they received foreign ambassadors , levied troops , and gave the general his orders , whom they could recal tion , which they justified from the rewards they bestow- at pleasure . So many privileges secured them a venera- ed on ...
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Ægina affirm afterwards Amasis amongst ancient Apollo appears Argives Aristagoras army arrived Asia assert Astyages Athenæus Athenians Athens authority Barbarians battle betwixt body called Cambyses celebrated Cleomenes commanded conduct Croesus custom Cyrus Darius daughter death deity Delphi Demaratus Diodorus Siculus divine Egypt Egyptians enemy engaged esteemed expedition father favour fleet gold Grecian Greece Greeks Hellespont Hercules Herodotus Homer honour horse hundred informed inhabitants Ionians island Jupiter king Lacedæmonians land Larcher Libya Lydians manner Mardonius Medes mentioned Milesians Miletus Minerva nations Nile observed occasion opinion oracle particular passage passed Pausanias Peloponnese Persians person Phenicians Phoceans Pliny Plutarch Polycrates possessed present priests prince reader reign remarkable replied river sacred sacrifice Salamis Samians Samos Sardis says Scythians seems sent soon Sparta Spartans speak stadia Strabo temple Themistocles thing thousand tion took troops vessels whilst women Xerxes
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Page 71 - And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; and the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
Page 242 - 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.
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Page 244 - Alas! regardless of their doom The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day: Yet see how all around 'em wait The ministers of human fate And black Misfortune's baleful train!
Page 82 - And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves : because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews ; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
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Page 82 - And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat : and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness : And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land...