Ridpath's History of the World: Being an Account of the Principal Events in the Career of the Human Race from the Beginnings of Civilization to the Present Time, Comprising the Development of Social Institutions and the Story of All Nations from Recent and Authentic Sources, Band 2Jones brothers publishing Company, 1910 |
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affairs Alcibiades Alexander allies ancient Antigonus Antiochus Apollo Armenia army Artabanus Asia Minor Athenians Athens Attica Bactria barbarians battle became began Boeotia brought campaign capital cavalry Central Greece civil coast command conqueror conquest Corinth court Crassus crown Darius death Demetrius dominion Dorians East Egypt Empire enemy Epaminondas established expedition favor fell fleet force gathered gave Grecian Greek gulf Hellas Hellenic honor hundred influence invasion Ionian island kingdom Lacedæmonians latter leader league Macedon Macedonian Mardonius ment Messenia Mithridates monarch mountains nations nature nians obliged oracle Parmenio Parthian Empire Parthian king peace Peloponnesus Perdiccas Pericles Persian Philip Phocians Phocis Phraates political prince provinces Ptolemy race reign revolt river Roman Rome satrap Seleucus sent siege slain soldiers soon sought Spartans squadron succeeded success Syria temple Thebans Thebes Thessaly thian thousand Thrace throne tion took town tribes victory Volagases West Xerxes Zeus
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Seite 481 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Seite 461 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old — The dead, but sceptered sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Seite 456 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...
Seite 544 - The sun, the soil, but not the slave, the same ; Unchanged in all except its foreign lord, Preserves alike its bounds and boundless fame The Battle-field, where Persia's victim horde First bow'd beneath the brunt of Hellas...
Seite 503 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Seite 548 - Go, tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, That here obedient to their laws we lie.
Seite 494 - Moreover, when the eagle in his pride, With crooked talons and a leathern hide, Shall seize the black and blood-devouring snake ; Then shall the woeful tanpits quail and quake ; And mighty Jove shall give command and place, To mortals of the sausage-selling race • Unless they choose, continuing as before, To sell their sausages for evermore.
Seite 373 - HISTORY OF THE WORLD • BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN THE CAREER OF THE HUMAN RACE FROM THE BEGINNINGS OF CIVILIZATION TO THE PRESENT TIME COMPRISING THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND THE STORY OF ALL NATIONS FROM RECENT AND AUTHENTIC SOURCES COMPLETE IN NINE VOLUMES BY JOHN CLARK RIDPATH, LLD.
Seite 518 - We will not destroy any Amphictyonic town, nor cut it off from running water in war or peace : if any one shall do so, we will march against him and destroy his city. If any one shall plunder the property of the god, or shall be...
Seite 641 - ... that the fates had decreed the empire of the world to him who should untie the knot.