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... Romans enter Achaia · • The Peloponnesus ravaged by the Ætolians 219 Aratus poisoned at Ægium Metellus enters Greece 165 . 147 • • 215 Battle of Mantinea ; Philopomen defeats the Spartan tyrant Mechanidas · 208 The Achæan league ...
... Romans enter Achaia · • The Peloponnesus ravaged by the Ætolians 219 Aratus poisoned at Ægium Metellus enters Greece 165 . 147 • • 215 Battle of Mantinea ; Philopomen defeats the Spartan tyrant Mechanidas · 208 The Achæan league ...
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... Romans had no formal law against adultery ; the emperor Augustus was the first to introduce a positive law to punish ... Roman treatment of it , is the following : Septimius Acindynus , a Roman consul , and governor of Antioch , having ...
... Romans had no formal law against adultery ; the emperor Augustus was the first to introduce a positive law to punish ... Roman treatment of it , is the following : Septimius Acindynus , a Roman consul , and governor of Antioch , having ...
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... Romans , and were conquered by Fulvius . The Etolians begin to ravage the Pelo- ponnesus • B.C. 282 They dispute the passage of the Macedo- nians at Thermopyla . . 223 Acarnania ceded to Philip as the price of peace · • • Therma , Xenia ...
... Romans , and were conquered by Fulvius . The Etolians begin to ravage the Pelo- ponnesus • B.C. 282 They dispute the passage of the Macedo- nians at Thermopyla . . 223 Acarnania ceded to Philip as the price of peace · • • Therma , Xenia ...
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... Roman people of all the lands which they acquired by conquest , limiting the acres which each person should enjoy ... Romans , as a science , about A.D. 27 . The following presents an official account of the cultivated , uncultivated ...
... Roman people of all the lands which they acquired by conquest , limiting the acres which each person should enjoy ... Romans , as a science , about A.D. 27 . The following presents an official account of the cultivated , uncultivated ...
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... Romans . Their battles were numerous with the Romans and Gauls . They ultimately sub- mitted to the Franks . - Gibbon . ALESSANDRIA , BATTLE OF , between the Austro - Russian army under Suwarrow , and the French under Moreau , when the ...
... Romans . Their battles were numerous with the Romans and Gauls . They ultimately sub- mitted to the Franks . - Gibbon . ALESSANDRIA , BATTLE OF , between the Austro - Russian army under Suwarrow , and the French under Moreau , when the ...
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Page 69 - If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young...
Page 199 - Even from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee; Bid them in Duty's sphere as meekly move; And if so fair, from vanity as free; As firm in friendship, and as fond in love. Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die ('Twas even to thee), yet the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids ' the pure in heart behold their God.
Page 26 - And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
Page 299 - But see! each Muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays! Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend head.
Page 14 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep': The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep'.
Page 475 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
Page 155 - I pity the man who can travel from Dan. to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren and so it is; and so is all the world to him, who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.
Page 459 - May, 1700, and was buried in Westminster abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by John, duke of Buckingham.
Page 556 - If there were as many devils in Worms as there are tiles on the housetops I would go.
Page 373 - ... thou shalt not go again to fetch it : it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow : that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.