Dictionary of Dates, and Universal Reference: Relating to All Ages and Nations ... with Copius Details of England, Scotland, and Ireland; the Whole Comprehending a Body of Information, Classical, Political, and Domestic, from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time |
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... built Defeat of the Achæans by the Spartans , and Lysiades killed • Battle of Sellasia 251 Philopamen defeated by Nabis , in a naval battle . B.C. 281 B.C. 194 228 Sparta joined to the league . 191 226 The Achæans overrun Messenia with ...
... built Defeat of the Achæans by the Spartans , and Lysiades killed • Battle of Sellasia 251 Philopamen defeated by Nabis , in a naval battle . B.C. 281 B.C. 194 228 Sparta joined to the league . 191 226 The Achæans overrun Messenia with ...
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... built on a rock , and accessible only on one side : Minerva had a temple at the bottom . - Paus . in Attic . The roof of this vast pile , which had stood 2000 years , was destroyed in the Venetian siege , A.D. 1687. - Aspin . The ...
... built on a rock , and accessible only on one side : Minerva had a temple at the bottom . - Paus . in Attic . The roof of this vast pile , which had stood 2000 years , was destroyed in the Venetian siege , A.D. 1687. - Aspin . The ...
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... built of wood , but Statilius Taurus made one of stone , under Augustus Cæsar . The amphitheatre of Vespasian was built A.D. 79 ; and is said to have been a regular fortress in 1312. The amphitheatre of Verona was next in size , and ...
... built of wood , but Statilius Taurus made one of stone , under Augustus Cæsar . The amphitheatre of Vespasian was built A.D. 79 ; and is said to have been a regular fortress in 1312. The amphitheatre of Verona was next in size , and ...
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... built by Edward I. to overawe the Welsh , 1295. The spot in Anglesey where Suetonius Paulinus and his barbarous legions butchered the unoffending Druids , in A.D. 59 , is still shown at a ferry called Porthamel , across the Menai ...
... built by Edward I. to overawe the Welsh , 1295. The spot in Anglesey where Suetonius Paulinus and his barbarous legions butchered the unoffending Druids , in A.D. 59 , is still shown at a ferry called Porthamel , across the Menai ...
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... Built by Seleucus , after the battle of Ipsus , 301 B.C. In one day , 100,000 of its people were slain by the Jews , 145 B.C. In this city , once the capital of Syria , the disciples of the Redeemer were first called Christians . The ...
... Built by Seleucus , after the battle of Ipsus , 301 B.C. In one day , 100,000 of its people were slain by the Jews , 145 B.C. In this city , once the capital of Syria , the disciples of the Redeemer were first called Christians . The ...
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Page 182 - For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Page 187 - 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 28 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Page 81 - 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 31 - 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 438 - ... 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.
Page 507 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery, down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.
Page 154 - Cœsar was the first who obtained the express permission of the senate to place his portrait on the coins, and the example was soon followed. In the earlier and more simple days of Rome...
Page 141 - As the champion of God and the ladies (I blush to unite such discordant names), he devoted himself to speak the truth; to maintain the right; to protect the distressed...
Page 412 - The Persians did not punish the first offence. In England, during a period of the Heptarchy, murder was punished by fines only. So late as Henry VIII.'s time, the crime was compounded for in Wales.