Universal History: From the Creation of the World to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century, Zväzok 1Fetridge, 1854 |
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... says of him is , that he was a mighty hunter . The very idea of a hunter excludes the supposition of a powerful sovereign , or a great empire . It supposes , what was certainly the case , that the earth was covered with forests , the ...
... says of him is , that he was a mighty hunter . The very idea of a hunter excludes the supposition of a powerful sovereign , or a great empire . It supposes , what was certainly the case , that the earth was covered with forests , the ...
Strana 23
... says that author , they brought together once in the year all the young women who were marriageable , and the public crier , beginning with the most " beautiful , put them up to auction , * After a fine description of the first stages ...
... says that author , they brought together once in the year all the young women who were marriageable , and the public crier , beginning with the most " beautiful , put them up to auction , * After a fine description of the first stages ...
Strana 26
... says he , " that the Egyptians used hieroglyphics at first , only to transmit the knowledge of their laws , their cus- toms , and their history to posterity . It was nature and necessity , not art and choice , that produced the several ...
... says he , " that the Egyptians used hieroglyphics at first , only to transmit the knowledge of their laws , their cus- toms , and their history to posterity . It was nature and necessity , not art and choice , that produced the several ...
Strana 31
... says Charlevoix , in his Travels in Canada , a very hard and tough species of flint , which by great labor they sharpened for the head of the instrument . The difficulty lay in fastening it to the handle . They cut off the top of a ...
... says Charlevoix , in his Travels in Canada , a very hard and tough species of flint , which by great labor they sharpened for the head of the instrument . The difficulty lay in fastening it to the handle . They cut off the top of a ...
Strana 35
... says he , must have rendered that coun- try uninhabitable for four months in the year . But here the theory is át variance with the facts . The periodical inundation of the Nile originally extended over a very narrow tract only of the ...
... says he , must have rendered that coun- try uninhabitable for four months in the year . But here the theory is át variance with the facts . The periodical inundation of the Nile originally extended over a very narrow tract only of the ...
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Strana 82 - 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.
Strana 227 - First unadorned, And nobly plain, the manly Doric rose ; The Ionic then, with decent matron grace, Her airy pillar heaved ; luxuriant last, The rich Corinthian spread her wanton wreath.
Strana 473 - To tamper, therefore, in this affair, or try experiments merely upon the credit of supposed argument and philosophy, can never be the part of a wise magistrate, who will bear a reverence to what carries the marks of age; and though he may attempt some improvements for the public good, yet will he adjust his innovations, as much as possible, to the ancient fabric, and preserve entire the chief pillars and supports of the constitution.
Strana 225 - Doric has a masculine grandeur, and a superior air of strength to both the others. It is therefore best adapted to works of great magnitude, and of a sublime character.
Strana 82 - ... yet considered it as an emancipated child over whom she pretended to claim no direct authority or jurisdiction. The colony settled its own form of government, enacted its own laws, elected its own magistrates, and made peace or war with its neighbours as an independent state, which had no occasion to wait for the approbation or consent of the mother city.
Strana 506 - ... repose. The emperor presented Zenobia with an elegant villa at Tibur, or Tivoli, about twenty miles from the capital; the Syrian queen insensibly sunk into a Roman matron, her daughters married into noble families, and her race was not yet extinct in the fifth century.
Strana 440 - ... and some of them too upon abstruse subjects. But your surprise will rise still higher, when you hear, that, for some time, he engaged in the profession of an advocate; that he died in his fifty-sixth year...
Strana 519 - By these voluntary fasts he prepared his senses and his understanding for the frequent and familiar visits with which he was honoured by the celestial powers. Notwithstanding the modest silence of Julian himself, we may learn from his faithful friend, the orator Libanius, that he lived in a perpetual intercourse with the gods and goddesses ; that they descended upon earth to enjoy the conversation of their favourite hero ; that they gently interrupted his slumbers by touching his hand or his hair...
Strana 472 - IT is not with forms of government, as with other artificial contrivances; where an old engine may be rejected, if we can discover another more accurate and commodious, or where trials may safely be made, even though the success be doubtful. An established government has an infinite advantage, by that very circumstance of its being established; the bulk of mankind being governed by authority, not reason, and never attributing authority to any thing that has not the recommendation of antiquity.
Strana 82 - Asiatic, the other in an Italian colony. All those colonies had established themselves in countries inhabited by savage and barbarous nations, who easily gave place to the new settlers. They had plenty of good land, and as they were altogether independent of the mother city, they were at liberty to manage their own affairs in the way that they judged was most suitable to their own interest.