A History of the World from the Earliest Records to the Present Time: From the triumvirate of Tiberius Gracchus to the fall of the Roman empireWalton and Maberly, 1864 |
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... the extreme length of Constan- tinople was about three Roman miles , the circumference measured between ten and eleven , and the surface might be computed as equal to about 2000 English acres . The suburbs of Pera and Galata , * though ...
... the extreme length of Constan- tinople was about three Roman miles , the circumference measured between ten and eleven , and the surface might be computed as equal to about 2000 English acres . The suburbs of Pera and Galata , * though ...
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A History of the World from the Earliest Records to the Present Time: From ... Philip Smith Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1866 |
A History of the World from the Earliest Records to the Present Time: From ... Philip Smith Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1866 |
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Agrippa amidst ancient Antiochus Antony Armenia army Asia Augustus Aurelius barbarians battle Bocchus Brutus Cæsar Caius Caligula called camp campaign Cassius cavalry character chief Christian Cicero Cimbri citizens civil Claudius Cleopatra command Commodus Constantine consul consulship Crassus Danube defeat Diocletian Domitian Drusus East Egypt emperor empire enemy fate father favour force formed Galerius Gaul gave German Germanicus Gracchus Greek Herod historian honour imperial Italian Italy Jerusalem Jewish Jews Judæa Jugurtha Julius Cæsar king land legions Lucullus Marius Maximian Meanwhile Merivale Metellus military Mithridates murder Nero nobles Numidia Octavian Parthian party Pompey popular prætor prætorian prince province put to death reign Republic restored returned to Rome Rhine Roman Rome Scipio seems Sejanus Senate sent Severus slaves soldiers Spain success Sulla Syria Tacitus temple Tiberius tion Titus Trajan tribes tribune triumph triumvirs troops Vespasian victory whole
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Side 167 - All crimes shall cease, and ancient fraud shall fail ; Returning Justice lift aloft her scale ; Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend, And white-robed Innocence from heaven descend.
Side 368 - But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people...
Side 97 - Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
Side 155 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse : was this ambition?
Side 155 - His legs bestrid the ocean ; his rear'd arm Crested the world ; his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends ; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder.
Side 318 - Gibbon declares, in a memorable passage, that " if a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would without hesitation name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Side 318 - Such princes deserved the honour of restoring the republic, had the Romans of their days been capable of enjoying a rational freedom.
Side 352 - But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
Side 351 - I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts : according to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not. For thus saith the Lord of hosts ; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come : and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.
Side 35 - Pour'd never from her frozen loins, to pass Rhene or the Danaw, when her barbarous sons Came like a deluge on the south, and spread Beneath Gibraltar to the Libyan sands.