Library of World History: Containing a Record of the Human Race from the Earliest Historical Period to the Present Time; Embracing a General Survey of the Progress of Mankind in National and Social Life, Civil Government, Religion, Literature, Science and Art, Том 2Western Press Assoc., 1914 |
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Стр. 468
... battles , while their numbers were by degrees reduced by the sword , by sickness and excesses . Still fearing to encounter the Scyths in open battle , the Median king and his court invited the Scythian chiefs to a grand banquet , and ...
... battles , while their numbers were by degrees reduced by the sword , by sickness and excesses . Still fearing to encounter the Scyths in open battle , the Median king and his court invited the Scythian chiefs to a grand banquet , and ...
Стр. 472
... battles with the Lydians with various success . After the war had continued six years it was brought to an end by a remarkable circumstance . On a certain occasion , as the Median and Lydian armies were engaged in battle , a sudden ...
... battles with the Lydians with various success . After the war had continued six years it was brought to an end by a remarkable circumstance . On a certain occasion , as the Median and Lydian armies were engaged in battle , a sudden ...
Стр. 477
... battle was sanguinary but indecisive ; but on the second day Astyages , by a skillful use of his superior numbers , Victories . won a decided victory . After he had detached one hundred thousand men with orders to make a circuit and get ...
... battle was sanguinary but indecisive ; but on the second day Astyages , by a skillful use of his superior numbers , Victories . won a decided victory . After he had detached one hundred thousand men with orders to make a circuit and get ...
Стр. 478
... battle near Pasargadæ , his army being routed and his camp taken . All the Median royal insignia fell into the hands of the victorious Per- sian king , who assumed them amid the enthusiastic shouts of his troops , who saluted him as ...
... battle near Pasargadæ , his army being routed and his camp taken . All the Median royal insignia fell into the hands of the victorious Per- sian king , who assumed them amid the enthusiastic shouts of his troops , who saluted him as ...
Стр. 480
... battle opened he kept the Medes near himself , assigning them their place in the line near that of the Persian contingent . Diodorus states that the Medes were chosen to make the first attack upon the Greek position at Thermopy- læ ...
... battle opened he kept the Medes near himself , assigning them their place in the line near that of the Persian contingent . Diodorus states that the Medes were chosen to make the first attack upon the Greek position at Thermopy- læ ...
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Стр. 689 - What I do not wish men to do to me, I also wish not to do to men.
Стр. 631 - Let her emaciate her body by living voluntarily on pure flowers, roots, and fruit ; but let her not, when her lord is deceased, even pronounce the name of another man. " Let her continue till death forgiving all injuries, performing harsh duties, avoiding every sensual pleasure, and cheerfully practising the incomparable rules of virtue, which have been followed by such women as...
Стр. 632 - O friend to virtue ! that supreme Spirit, which thou believest one and the same with thyself, resides in thy bosom perpetually, and is an all-knowing inspector of thy goodness or of thy wickedness.
Стр. 663 - Let no man think lightly of evil, saying in his heart, It will not come nigh unto me. Even by the falling of water-drops a waterpot is filled; the fool becomes full of evil, even if he gather it little by little. Let no man think lightly of good, saying in his heart, It will not come nigh unto me.
Стр. 663 - Not to commit any sin, to do good, and to purify one's mind, that is the teaching of all the Awakened.
Стр. 629 - He, whom the mind alone can perceive, whose essence eludes the external organs, who has no visible parts, who exists from eternity, even he, the soul of all beings, whom no being can comprehend, shone forth in person. He, having willed to produce various beings from his own divine substance, first with a thought created the waters, and placed in them a productive seed...
Стр. 688 - When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it;—this is knowledge.
Стр. 627 - Vaivasvata reigns, where the secret place of heaven is, where these mighty waters are, there make me immortal ! ' Where life is free, in the third heaven of heavens, where the worlds are radiant, there make me immortal...
Стр. 688 - For a man to sacrifice to a spirit which does not belong to him is flattery." 2. "To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.
Стр. 663 - As many kinds of wreaths can be made from a heap of flowers, so many good things may be achieved by a mortal when once he is born.