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... Mardonius appears to have engaged with peculiar ardour in his project for the marches into conquest of Greece . Recalling the former commanders , he com- mitted the conduct of the Persian forces solely to Mardonius , the son of Gobryas ...
... Mardonius appears to have engaged with peculiar ardour in his project for the marches into conquest of Greece . Recalling the former commanders , he com- mitted the conduct of the Persian forces solely to Mardonius , the son of Gobryas ...
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... Mardonius returned into Asia with the wreck of this mighty armament , when Darius , too late , regretted the confidence he had rashly placed in his youth and inexperience . The The king , who still had the resources of immense treasure ...
... Mardonius returned into Asia with the wreck of this mighty armament , when Darius , too late , regretted the confidence he had rashly placed in his youth and inexperience . The The king , who still had the resources of immense treasure ...
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... Mardonius , the son of Gobryas , desirous of recovering the military reputation which he had lost by his early misadventures , had urged Xerxes , immediately on his accession to the throne , to retaliate the wrongs which Persia had ...
... Mardonius , the son of Gobryas , desirous of recovering the military reputation which he had lost by his early misadventures , had urged Xerxes , immediately on his accession to the throne , to retaliate the wrongs which Persia had ...
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... Mardonius . Peculiar law . con- Mardonius , as might have been expected , was eager to second the opinions of the king , and , thus to promote his own cherished wishes , to war with the Greeks ; these he affected to disparage , while he ...
... Mardonius . Peculiar law . con- Mardonius , as might have been expected , was eager to second the opinions of the king , and , thus to promote his own cherished wishes , to war with the Greeks ; these he affected to disparage , while he ...
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... Mardonius , ) ill does it become you to calumniate the Greeks , and excite your sovereign to a war , which is your favourite project . Yet , if it must be undertaken , let the king remain in Persia , and our children be answerable for ...
... Mardonius , ) ill does it become you to calumniate the Greeks , and excite your sovereign to a war , which is your favourite project . Yet , if it must be undertaken , let the king remain in Persia , and our children be answerable for ...
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Seite 82 - Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we : come on, let us deal wisely with them ; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
Seite 249 - As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man and the face of a lion, on the right side : and they four had the face of an ox on the left side ; they four also had the face of an eagle.
Seite 345 - Now IN the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia...
Seite 263 - And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation...
Seite 425 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Seite 271 - One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end...
Seite 83 - And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Seite 261 - For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination : he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
Seite 164 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs : but the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...
Seite 81 - Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers : that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen ; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.