A History of the World from the Earliest Records to the Present Time: From the creation of the world to the accession of Philip of MacedonWalton and Maberly, 1864 |
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... Xerxes prepares a third invasion- Progress of the expedition - Thermopyla - Leonidas and the three hundred Spartans - Events preceding the battle of Salamis - Defeat of the Persian fleet - Retreat of Xerxes - Battle of Himera in.
... Xerxes prepares a third invasion- Progress of the expedition - Thermopyla - Leonidas and the three hundred Spartans - Events preceding the battle of Salamis - Defeat of the Persian fleet - Retreat of Xerxes - Battle of Himera in.
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Philip Smith. fleet - Retreat of Xerxes - Battle of Himera in Sicily on the same day- Mardonius in Boeotia - Battles of Platea and Mycale - Affairs of Thebes- Liberation of the islands , Thrace , and Macedonia - The war transferred to ...
Philip Smith. fleet - Retreat of Xerxes - Battle of Himera in Sicily on the same day- Mardonius in Boeotia - Battles of Platea and Mycale - Affairs of Thebes- Liberation of the islands , Thrace , and Macedonia - The war transferred to ...
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... Xerxes , B.C. 484. It was in the reign of this king , and under the satrapy of his brother Achæmenes , about B.C. 460 , that Egypt was visited by HERODOTUS OF HALICARNASSUS , who collected from the priests and from other sources that ...
... Xerxes , B.C. 484. It was in the reign of this king , and under the satrapy of his brother Achæmenes , about B.C. 460 , that Egypt was visited by HERODOTUS OF HALICARNASSUS , who collected from the priests and from other sources that ...
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... Xerxes , involved another siege and capture . The whole interest of Persian history , from Darius to Alexander , being centred in its external relations to the West , we hear nothing more of Babylon till it fell , as Daniel had ...
... Xerxes , involved another siege and capture . The whole interest of Persian history , from Darius to Alexander , being centred in its external relations to the West , we hear nothing more of Babylon till it fell , as Daniel had ...
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... Xerxes , besides temples and other edifices , cover many acres of ground . They are described in several well - known works . See especially Fergusson's Palaces of Nineveh and Persepolis Restored . THE PERSIAN LANGUAGE . 261 ravines ...
... Xerxes , besides temples and other edifices , cover many acres of ground . They are described in several well - known works . See especially Fergusson's Palaces of Nineveh and Persepolis Restored . THE PERSIAN LANGUAGE . 261 ravines ...
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Abraham Achæan Alcibiades allies already ancient army Asia Minor Asiatic Assyrian Astyages Athenians Athens Attica Babylon Babylonia Babylonian battle Berosus Boeotia called Cambyses Chaldæan character chief chronology coast colonies conquest Corinth Cushite Cyaxares Cyrus Darius death Desert Divine Dorian Dynasty earliest earth east Egypt Egyptian empire enemy epoch Euphrates Exodus expedition fleet Grecian Greek Grote Hamite Hebrew Hellenic Hellespont Herodotus historian History of Greece inscriptions Ionian island Israel Judah king kingdom Lacedæmonians land language later legends Manetho Marathon Mardonius maritime Medes Miltiades monarchy monuments nations Nile Nineveh Noah northern numbers patriarchal Peloponnesian Peloponnesus peninsula Pericles period Persian Phoenician plain political priests probably prophet proved Psammetichus pyramid race reign revolt river sacred Salamis Scripture seems seen Semitic Shem ships shores Sparta story temple Thebans Thebes Themistocles Thucydides Tigris tombs tradition tribes triremes Turanian valley victory western whole Xerxes
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Página 428 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships by thousands lay below, And men in nations; — all were his! He counted them at break of day, And when the sun set, where were they?
Página 241 - It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall...
Página 297 - I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Página 345 - Look once more ere we leave this specular mount Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence...
Página ix - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Página 174 - Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs ; In Sion also not unsung, where stood Her temple on the offensive mountain, built By that uxorious king, whose heart, though large, Beguiled by fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul.
Página 50 - These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
Página 166 - In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Página 344 - The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend. That tyrant was Miltiades. Oh, that the present hour would lend Another despot of the kind ! Such chains as his were sure to bind.
Página 240 - Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation...