A History of the World with All Its Great Sensations: Together with Its Mighty and Decisive Battles and the Rise and Fall of Its Nations from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Volume 1 |
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... took pos- session of Nineveh , and reduced the last king , the sensual Sardanapalus , to such straits , that he burnt himself in his palace , together with his wives and treasure , B.C. 888. One hundred and twenty - five years after the ...
... took pos- session of Nineveh , and reduced the last king , the sensual Sardanapalus , to such straits , that he burnt himself in his palace , together with his wives and treasure , B.C. 888. One hundred and twenty - five years after the ...
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... took the city , plundered the temple , and carried away the king and the chief inhabitants , oppressing them with a heavy hand . The last king , Zedekiah , tried the chances of war with Nebu- chadnezzar , but was routed , and borne away ...
... took the city , plundered the temple , and carried away the king and the chief inhabitants , oppressing them with a heavy hand . The last king , Zedekiah , tried the chances of war with Nebu- chadnezzar , but was routed , and borne away ...
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... took Delphi itself . This brought on a gen- eral war , most of the states taking up arms against the Phocians , and Philip's aid being courted by the Thebans and Thessalians , he began hostilities by invading Phocis , the key to the ...
... took Delphi itself . This brought on a gen- eral war , most of the states taking up arms against the Phocians , and Philip's aid being courted by the Thebans and Thessalians , he began hostilities by invading Phocis , the key to the ...
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... took his own station , as his custom was , in the right wing , at at the head of his cavalry : and when all the arrangements for the battle were complete , and his generals were fully in- structed how to act in each probable emergency ...
... took his own station , as his custom was , in the right wing , at at the head of his cavalry : and when all the arrangements for the battle were complete , and his generals were fully in- structed how to act in each probable emergency ...
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... took the field both by sea and land . The two fleets entered the Ambrasian Gulf in Epirus . Antony's bravest and most experienced officers ad- vised him not to hazard a battle by sea , to send back Cleopatra into Egypt , and to make all ...
... took the field both by sea and land . The two fleets entered the Ambrasian Gulf in Epirus . Antony's bravest and most experienced officers ad- vised him not to hazard a battle by sea , to send back Cleopatra into Egypt , and to make all ...
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Page 118 - No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed, nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 271 - ... fortunes and their own at the end! of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries in all the courts of western Europe.
Page 291 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Page 257 - For I assure you I have often kneeled before him in his privy chamber...
Page 258 - Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short. Take heed therefore that thou strike not awry for saving of thine honesty.
Page 260 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 444 - The paths of glory lead but to the grave " — must have seemed at such a moment fraught with mournful meaning. At the close of the recitation Wolfe added, "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec.
Page 291 - ... midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust. I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman...
Page 507 - After various messages, a convention for the surrender of the army was settled, which provided that " The troops under General Burgoyne were to march out of their camp with the honors of war, and the artillery of the intrenchments, to the verge of the river, where the arms and artillery were to be left.
Page 439 - Kensington, in the fiftieth year of her age, and the thirteenth of her reign. Her easy temper and her faultless domestic life gained her the epithet of