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... soon as I enter , my wife will make her ap- pearance ; it is her custom to undress herself at leisure , and to place her garments one by one in a chair near the entrance . You will have the fairest opportunity of contemplating her per ...
... soon as I enter , my wife will make her ap- pearance ; it is her custom to undress herself at leisure , and to place her garments one by one in a chair near the entrance . You will have the fairest opportunity of contemplating her per ...
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... soon as he succeeded to the throne , carried his arms against Miletus and Smyrna , and took the city Colophon . Although he reigned thirty - eight years , he performed no other remarkable ex- ploit : we shall proceed , therefore , to ...
... soon as he succeeded to the throne , carried his arms against Miletus and Smyrna , and took the city Colophon . Although he reigned thirty - eight years , he performed no other remarkable ex- ploit : we shall proceed , therefore , to ...
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... soon afterwards restored to health . The above is a faithful account of the war betwixt Alyattes and the Milesians . XXIII . Periander , the son of Cypselus , who communicated to Thrasybulus the reply of the oracle , was king of Corinth ...
... soon afterwards restored to health . The above is a faithful account of the war betwixt Alyattes and the Milesians . XXIII . Periander , the son of Cypselus , who communicated to Thrasybulus the reply of the oracle , was king of Corinth ...
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... Soon afterwards he attacked every state , both of the Ionians and the Eolians : the motives which he assigned were various , important in some instances , but , when such could not be found , frivolous pre- texts sufficed . XXVII . Not ...
... Soon afterwards he attacked every state , both of the Ionians and the Eolians : the motives which he assigned were various , important in some instances , but , when such could not be found , frivolous pre- texts sufficed . XXVII . Not ...
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... soon as pos- sible , from the attacks of the boar . " 2 Adrustus . ] - There is a passage in Photius relative to this Adrastus , which two learned men , Palmerius and Larcher , have understood and applied very differently . The passage ...
... soon as pos- sible , from the attacks of the boar . " 2 Adrustus . ] - There is a passage in Photius relative to this Adrastus , which two learned men , Palmerius and Larcher , have understood and applied very differently . The passage ...
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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 142 - We will willingly give them." And they spread a garment and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey.
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...