The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthagininas, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians, Band 6Collins and Company, 1820 |
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... arrived before Rho s with a very numerous fleet , for he had two hundred ships of war of different dimensions , and more than a hundred and seventy transports , which carried about forty thousand men , without including the cavalry ...
... arrived before Rho s with a very numerous fleet , for he had two hundred ships of war of different dimensions , and more than a hundred and seventy transports , which carried about forty thousand men , without including the cavalry ...
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... arrival at the island , landed in order to take a view of the most commodious situation for assault- ing the place . He likewise sent out parties to lay the coun- try waste on all sides , and , at the same time , caused another body of ...
... arrival at the island , landed in order to take a view of the most commodious situation for assault- ing the place . He likewise sent out parties to lay the coun- try waste on all sides , and , at the same time , caused another body of ...
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... arrival , he caused a vast quantity of lighted torches , flaming straw , and arrows , to be discharged , in order to set fire to the vessels that were riding there , while his engines battered the mole without intermission . The ...
... arrival , he caused a vast quantity of lighted torches , flaming straw , and arrows , to be discharged , in order to set fire to the vessels that were riding there , while his engines battered the mole without intermission . The ...
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... arrived there by swimming . As unfortunate as this last attack had proved to Deme- trius , he was determined to undertake another , and in order to succeed in that design , he ordered a machine of a new in vention to be built , of ...
... arrived there by swimming . As unfortunate as this last attack had proved to Deme- trius , he was determined to undertake another , and in order to succeed in that design , he ordered a machine of a new in vention to be built , of ...
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... arrived from the Cnidians , and earnestly soli- cited Demetrius to suspend the assault , giving him hopes , at the same time , that they should prevail upon the besieged to submit to an honourable capitulation . A suspension of arms was ...
... arrived from the Cnidians , and earnestly soli- cited Demetrius to suspend the assault , giving him hopes , at the same time , that they should prevail upon the besieged to submit to an honourable capitulation . A suspension of arms was ...
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Seite 117 - And in the end of years they shall join themselves together ; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement : but she shall not retain the power of the arm ; neither shall he stand, nor his arm : but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.
Seite 110 - Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him. "And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all : and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia.
Seite 119 - And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the north.
Seite 110 - And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great dominion.
Seite 110 - And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those.
Seite 126 - ... the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.