Epitome of the World's History, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern ...Boston school supply Company, 1900 |
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Epitome of the World's History, Ancient, Mediæval, and Modern: With Special ... Edgar Sanderson Volledige weergave - 1890 |
Epitome of the World's History, Ancient, Mediæval, and Modern: With Special ... Edgar Sanderson Volledige weergave - 1890 |
Epitome of the World's History, Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern ..., Volume 1 Edgar Sanderson Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2016 |
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Africa Alexander ancient army Aryan Aryan race Asia Minor Assyrian Athenian Athens Augustus Babylon Babylonian battle became called Carthage century B.C. Chaldæans character chief Christianity Church Cisalpine Gaul citizens civilization coast colonies Comitia commerce conquered conquest Crusaders Cyrus Darius death defeated despotism dominion Dorian Duke dynasty early east Eastern Edward Egypt Egyptian emperor England English Euphrates Europe famous feudal founded France Gaul German Greece Greek Hebrew Henry Hindoos India invaded invasion Ionian Italy Jerusalem Jews Judæa Julius Cæsar king kingdom knights land language Latin literature Macedon Macedonia Medes Mediterranean ment military modern monarchy nations Nile Patricians Peloponnesus period Persian Empire philosophy Phoenician Plebeians political Pope princes province Ptolemy race reigned religion religious Roman Rome rule ruler Saracens sculpture Semitic senate Sicily Spain Sparta Syracuse Syria temple Thebes Tigris tion trade tribes Tyre victory Western worship
Populaire passages
Pagina 42 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the...
Pagina 87 - ... unwieldy and ill-organized fabrics of power. It is also a striking fact that the governments of all the great Asiatic empires have in all ages been absolute despotisms. And Heeren is right in connecting this with another great fact, which is important from its influence both on the political and the social life of Asiatics. " Among all the considerable nations of Inner Asia the paternal government of every household was corrupted by polygamy : where that custom exists, a good political constitution...
Pagina 336 - No other institution is left standing which carries the mind back to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, and when camelopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre. The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs.
Pagina 43 - Mizraim and Nimrod — both descendants of Ham — led the way, and acted as the pioneers of mankind in the various untrodden fields of art, literature, and science. Alphabetic writing, astronomy, history, chronology, architecture, plastic art, sculpture, navigation, agriculture, textile industry, seem all of them to have had their origin in one or other of these two countries.
Pagina 336 - She saw the commencement of all the governments and of all the ecclesiastical establishments that now exist in the world, and we feel no assurance that she is not destined to see the end of them all. She was great and respected before the Saxon had set foot on Britain — before the Frank had passed the Rhine — when Grecian eloquence still flourished...
Pagina 344 - and let this memorable word, the inspiration surely of the Holy Spirit, be for ever adopted as your cry of battle, to animate the devotion and courage of the champions of Christ. His cross is the symbol of your salvation; wear it, a red, a bloody cross, as an external mark, on your breasts or shoulders, as a pledge of your sacred and irrevocable engagement.
Pagina 374 - ... persecuted could find refuge. How must this right have enhanced the veneration for religious institutions! How gladly must the victims of internal warfare have turned their eyes from the baronial castle, the dread and scourge of the neighborhood, to those venerable walls within which not even the clamor of arms could be heard to disturb the chant of holy men and the sacred service of the altar!
Pagina 130 - Macedonian leader was no less deliberate 'than rapid; at every step the Greek power took root, and 'the language and civilisation of Greece were planted from ' the shores of the ^Egean to the banks of the Indus, from the ' Caspian and the great Hyrcanian plain to the Cataracts of ' the Nile ; to exist actually for nearly a thousand years, and ' in their effects to endure for ever.
Pagina 363 - Miles, or soldier, was confined to the gentlemen who served on horseback, and were invested with the character of knighthood. The dukes and counts, who had usurped the rights of sovereignty, divided the provinces among their faithful barons : the barons distributed among their vassals the fiefs or benefices of their jurisdiction ; and these military tenants, the peers of each other, and of their lord, composed the noble, or equestrian order, which disdained to conceive the peasant, or burgher, as...
Pagina 363 - ... and of their lord, composed the noble or equestrian order, which disdained to conceive the peasant or burgher as of the same species with themselves. The dignity of their birth was preserved by pure and equal alliances; their sons alone, who could produce four quarters or lines of ancestry, without spot or reproach, might legally pretend to the...