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... called children of the sun , and children of the moon , who reigned in dif- ferent parts of India , about three millions of years . When compared to those people we are perfect ephemera . The ancients do not seem to have be- lieved that ...
... called children of the sun , and children of the moon , who reigned in dif- ferent parts of India , about three millions of years . When compared to those people we are perfect ephemera . The ancients do not seem to have be- lieved that ...
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... called the father of history , was a dealer in romance . Like a poet , he sought to please rather than to instruct . He gave us a collection of stories that he advanced on the mere authority of faithless tradition . This father of ...
... called the father of history , was a dealer in romance . Like a poet , he sought to please rather than to instruct . He gave us a collection of stories that he advanced on the mere authority of faithless tradition . This father of ...
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... called GREAT , merely because he was prodigal of human blood . Ancient historians , biassed by superstition , that disease of the human mind , are not more correct , nor more to be credited , in the account they give of natural ...
... called GREAT , merely because he was prodigal of human blood . Ancient historians , biassed by superstition , that disease of the human mind , are not more correct , nor more to be credited , in the account they give of natural ...
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... called a nation meted out . It appears that a great proportion of the inhabitants of that king- dom lived upon their own lands . If this had not been the case , they could not have subsisted , during a long famine , by selling their ...
... called a nation meted out . It appears that a great proportion of the inhabitants of that king- dom lived upon their own lands . If this had not been the case , they could not have subsisted , during a long famine , by selling their ...
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... called them- selves patriots , called in the assistance of a power- ful nation . Assistance was not refused , and their patron crushed them to death by his embraces . The more cause we have to lament the general defects in ancient ...
... called them- selves patriots , called in the assistance of a power- ful nation . Assistance was not refused , and their patron crushed them to death by his embraces . The more cause we have to lament the general defects in ancient ...
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Página 40 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Página 147 - And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Página 148 - Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; Camphire, with spikenard, Spikenard and saffron; Calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; Myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: A fountain of gardens, A well of living waters, And streams from Lebanon.
Página 147 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground...
Página 53 - For this purpose you are to preserve this string, in memory of what your uncles have this day given you in charge. We have some other business to transact with our brethren, and therefore depart the council, and consider what has been said to you.
Página 85 - Th' insulting tyrant, prancing o'er the field Strow'd with Rome's citizens, and drench'd in slaughter, His horse's hoofs wet with Patrician blood ! Oh, Portius ! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man, Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin ? PORTIUS.
Página 102 - ... company of soldiers, who speaks as if he were dreaming. He says, that he only came to the lake to smoke on the great calumet with the Onondagas. But Grangvla says, that he sees the contrary.; that it was to knock them on the head, if sickness had not weakened the arms of the French.
Página 98 - ... considering the wonderful events of the past and present times, and the inscrutable dispensations of an over-ruling Providence, may we not look forward into futurity, and without departing from the rigid laws of probability, predict the occurrence of similar scenes, at some remote period of time. And, perhaps, in the decrepitude of our empire, some transcendent genius, whose powers of mind shall only be bounded by that impenetrable circle which prescribes the limits of human nature*, may rally...
Página xi - An Act instituting a lottery for the promotion of literature and for other purposes,