The Fall of CroesusFrancis and John Rivington, 1846 - Всего страниц: 182 Mr. Merton uses Herodotus' histories to tell his niece and nephew about King Croesus. |
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... ambition might hasten its progress , but his victories could not turn it aside ; for it was no mere human power that directed it on its way . It was a moral cause -the curse of unexpiated crime . Gyges , the first monarch of the present ...
... ambition might hasten its progress , but his victories could not turn it aside ; for it was no mere human power that directed it on its way . It was a moral cause -the curse of unexpiated crime . Gyges , the first monarch of the present ...
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... ambition , has more than carried out all the designs of his ancestor ; and who now , without one fear for the future , or one confession of dependence on a higher power , is confident of his own resources , and boasts of the gifts of ...
... ambition , has more than carried out all the designs of his ancestor ; and who now , without one fear for the future , or one confession of dependence on a higher power , is confident of his own resources , and boasts of the gifts of ...
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... ambition to the young of every rank to be allowed to join in them , and the successful hunter was scarcely less honoured than the approved warrior of the tribe . Thus there was nothing in the request dero- gatory to the rank of Atys ...
... ambition to the young of every rank to be allowed to join in them , and the successful hunter was scarcely less honoured than the approved warrior of the tribe . Thus there was nothing in the request dero- gatory to the rank of Atys ...
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... ambition which had already failed to secure him happiness . But in order to understand this portion of his history , it will be necessary to allude briefly to events that occurred previous to his reign . The Halys was , as we have seen ...
... ambition which had already failed to secure him happiness . But in order to understand this portion of his history , it will be necessary to allude briefly to events that occurred previous to his reign . The Halys was , as we have seen ...
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... ambitious , and flushed with recent conquest , would be likely to look with a longing eye on the weak but fer- tile provinces that were subject to the empire of Lydia , and the river Halys was too narrow a boundary to be any security ...
... ambitious , and flushed with recent conquest , would be likely to look with a longing eye on the weak but fer- tile provinces that were subject to the empire of Lydia , and the river Halys was too narrow a boundary to be any security ...
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Стр. 172 - And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead?
Стр. 172 - And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith 1 And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also : go forth, and do so.
Стр. 80 - And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
Стр. 113 - 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.
Стр. 111 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Стр. 168 - With calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, Or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Стр. 115 - And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to show in thee my power ; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
Стр. 80 - Remember therefore, how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
Стр. 116 - Until I went into the sanctuary of God : then understood I the end of these men ; 17 Namely, how thou dost set them in slippery places : and castest them down, and destroyest them.
Стр. 178 - And this did she many days. But Paul being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.