Universal History: From the Creation of the World to the Decease of George III, 1820, Volumen1Harper, 1859 |
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Universal History, from the Creation of the World to the Decease ..., Volumen5 Edward Nares,Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhousele Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Página 45 - Stand in their porches, and enjoy the show. There in the forum swarm a numerous train ; The subject of debate, a townsman slain : One pleads the fine discharged, which one denied, And bade the public and the laws decide : The witness is produced on either hand : For this, or that, the partial people stand: The...
Página 130 - The colonists carry out with them a knowledge of agriculture and of other useful arts, superior to what can grow up of its own accord in the course of many centuries among savage and barbarous nations.
Página 322 - Achaaan states, who insulted the deputies of imperial Rome. This drew on them at once the thunder of the Roman arms : Metellus marched his legions into Greece, gave them battle, and entirely defeated them. Mummius the consul terminated the work, and made an easy conquest of the whole of Greece, which from that period became a Roman province, under the name of Achaia, 146 BC 4.
Página 129 - THE COLONY OF A civilized nation which takes possession, either of a waste country or of one so thinly inhabited, that the natives easily give place to the new settlers, advances more rapidly to wealth and greatness than any other human society.
Página 130 - Greek colonies towards wealth and greatness, seems accordingly to have been very rapid. In the course of a century or two, several of them appear to have rivalled, and even to have surpassed their mother cities. Syracuse and Agrigentum in Sicily, Tarentum and Locri in Italy, Ephesus and Miletus in Lesser Asia, appear by all accounts to have been at least equal to any of the cities of ancient Greece.
Página 122 - Eubcea, and landed in Asia, at the promontory of Sigoeum. Their first operation, after beating back the enemy who opposed their landing, was to form a large camp at some distance from the city. The site of Troy is generally supposed to have been at the distance of four or five miles from the shore, at the foot of that ridge of Mountains which goes under the name of Ida. The camp was close upon the sea-shore for the sake of the ships, which, as usual, were drawn upon the land, and enclosed within...
Página 12 - ... nothing else than a magazine of facts, taken at random from the annals of all different nations, without regard to time or the order of events, but selected merely ,as they happen to furnish a convenient illustration. In this way, we see but imperfectly that chain which joins effects to their causes; we lose all view of the gradual progress of manners, the advancement of man from barbarism to civilization, and thence to refinement and corruption ; we see nothing of the...
Página 204 - Let him. come, said Leonidas, and take them. For two days the Persians in vain strove to force their way, and were repeatedly repulsed with great slaughter. An unguarded track being at length discovered, the defence of the pass became a fruitless attempt on the part of the Greeks.
Página 70 - ... pyramids were once huge rocks, standing where they now are ; that some of them, the most proper from their form, were chosen for the body of the pyramid, and the others hewn into steps, to serve for the superstructure, and the exterior parts of themf.
Página 110 - ... abstain from particular sorts of diet, particularly tame fowls, fish, beans, and certain sorts of apples. When this was finished, the priests began to play off the whole machinery of the temple in all its terror ; doleful groans and lamentations broke...