The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes & Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians, Band 6Silas Andrus, bookseller. Hart & Lincoln printers, Middletown, 1804 |
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... hundred talents * , were deposited . These he carried off with all expedi- tion to his fleet , and then set sail for Syria , where he found Seleucus , and gave him the princess Stra- tonice in marriage . Demetrius , after some days Plut ...
... hundred talents * , were deposited . These he carried off with all expedi- tion to his fleet , and then set sail for Syria , where he found Seleucus , and gave him the princess Stra- tonice in marriage . Demetrius , after some days Plut ...
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... hundred talents on that occa- sion : Glaucias , however , was struck with horror at such a proposal , and when the infant had attained the twelfth year of his age , he conducted him in person to Epirus with a powerful army , and rein ...
... hundred talents on that occa- sion : Glaucias , however , was struck with horror at such a proposal , and when the infant had attained the twelfth year of his age , he conducted him in person to Epirus with a powerful army , and rein ...
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... hundred , they weighed anchor , and fled . Although the Athenians had issued a decree , by which they made it capital for any person even to mention a peace with Demetrius , the extreme ne- cessity to which they were reduced , obliged ...
... hundred , they weighed anchor , and fled . Although the Athenians had issued a decree , by which they made it capital for any person even to mention a peace with Demetrius , the extreme ne- cessity to which they were reduced , obliged ...
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... hundred of the enemies were made prisoners , and two hundred killed upon the spot , so that he was already consi- dered as master of the city , which had never been taken before . In that important moment he received two pieces of ...
... hundred of the enemies were made prisoners , and two hundred killed upon the spot , so that he was already consi- dered as master of the city , which had never been taken before . In that important moment he received two pieces of ...
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... hundred thousand men , and fitted out a fleet of five hundred sail ; in a word , so great an armament had never been seen since the time of Alexander the Great . Demetrius animated the workmen by his presence and instructions , visited ...
... hundred thousand men , and fitted out a fleet of five hundred sail ; in a word , so great an armament had never been seen since the time of Alexander the Great . Demetrius animated the workmen by his presence and instructions , visited ...
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Seite 2 - And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.
Seite 129 - 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 128 - 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 150 - ... the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Seite 128 - 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 141 - ... the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail: 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. So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land.
Seite 251 - The season was now too far advanced to prolong the campaign, for which reason he returned...
Seite 141 - But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north...
Seite 54 - Ceraunus, on whom he had conferred innumerable honours and obligations ; for he had received him into hia court, when he fled from his own country, and had treated him suitably to his rank. He had also carried that prince with him in this expedition ; intending, when it should be completed, to employ the same forces for his establishment on the throne of his father in Egypt.
Seite 231 - Let the princes of these times, says Polybius, who imagine they have done gloriously in giving four or five thousand crowns, only consider how inferior their generosity is to that we have now described. Rhodes, in consequence of these liberalities, was re-established in a few years in a more opulent and splendid state than she had ever experienced before, if we only except the Colossus.