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Page 46 - Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him. 2 And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia.
Page 129 - Lo, the poor crieth, and the Lord heareth him : yea, and saveth him out of all his troubles. 7 The angel of the Lord tarrieth round about them that fear Him : and delivereth them.
Page 180 - Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection: And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment...
Page 216 - There is no God but one God, and Mahomet is his prophet ! — I desire to embrace the true religion !" The other infidel repeated the same words.
Page 17 - He shall recount his worthies : they shall stumble in their walk ; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared. The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
Page 77 - Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken ; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.
Page 140 - Tell him," said the old General, " that you have seen Caius Marius sitting among the ruins of Carthage." Soon after, he was joined by his son, who had endeavoured to gain support from Hiempsal, King of Numidia. The young man had been received with outward kindness, but was in fact detained as prisoner, till he was taught to escape by the compassion of the King's daughter. After this, Marius remained in...
Page 67 - ... number of Greek cities. The other states did not dare to make any further opposition, and he was thus at leisure to prepare for the invasion of Persia. 11. Leaving Antipater as governor of Macedon, he set out in the spring of 334, at the head of thirty thousand infantry and four thousand five hundred cavalry, and bade farewell to his native land, which he was never to see again. He crossed the Hellespont, and was the first man to leap on Asiatic ground; then, while his forces were landing, he...
Page 198 - As it was the custom among, the Teutonic nations to conceal the graves of their illustrious men, the Goths turned the stream of the Bisenzio, caused their slaves to dig a grave in the bed of the river, and after burying him there with all his treasures, they turned back the waters into their course, and slew all the slaves who had been employed in the work.
Page 23 - Solon, Solon !" Cy'rus asked the meaning of this invocation ; and was so struck by the impressive example of the philosopher's wisdom, that he not only spared the life of Croe'sus, but made him his friend and counsellor (B. c. 549). Lydia, and the rest of Asia Minor, remained subject to the Persian empire until the time of Alexander the Great. SECTION III. — Syria. — Geographical Outline. THE name of Syria was loosely given by the Greeks, as that of A'ram was by the Hebrews, not only to the...