A History of the World from the Earliest Records to the Present Time: From the triumvirate of Tiberius Gracchus to the fall of the Roman empireWalton and Maberly, 1865 |
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... sent to Africa , with Marius as legate - Overtures of Jugurtha - Battle of the river Muthul - Successes of Metellus - He is repulsed from Zama - Conspiracy of Bomilcar - Rise of Caius Marius - His marriage with Julia - The soothsayer at ...
... sent to Africa , with Marius as legate - Overtures of Jugurtha - Battle of the river Muthul - Successes of Metellus - He is repulsed from Zama - Conspiracy of Bomilcar - Rise of Caius Marius - His marriage with Julia - The soothsayer at ...
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... sent by the insurgents through the youthful son of Fulvius . It is said that Caius was willing to have gone ; but his wish was overruled by Fulvius , who repeated his former message . This time the boy was kept a prisoner , and Opimius ...
... sent by the insurgents through the youthful son of Fulvius . It is said that Caius was willing to have gone ; but his wish was overruled by Fulvius , who repeated his former message . This time the boy was kept a prisoner , and Opimius ...
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... sent as an envoy to the Senate , a youth of eighteen , universally beloved , was permitted to choose the manner of his death . The houses of Caius and Flaccus were plundered , and the latter demolished . The city was purified by a ...
... sent as an envoy to the Senate , a youth of eighteen , universally beloved , was permitted to choose the manner of his death . The houses of Caius and Flaccus were plundered , and the latter demolished . The city was purified by a ...
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... sent his son , with two of his friends , to renew the process ; but , on the motion of Bestia , the consul elect , they were commanded to leave Italy , unless they bore a commission to surrender the kingdom . Early in the following year ...
... sent his son , with two of his friends , to renew the process ; but , on the motion of Bestia , the consul elect , they were commanded to leave Italy , unless they bore a commission to surrender the kingdom . Early in the following year ...
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... sent to Vaga ( Beja ) in the upper valley of the Bagradas , nominally to collect corn , but really to serve as a hostage for Jugurtha , who repaired to the Roman camp . He made his proposals to a military council , for form's sake ; but ...
... sent to Vaga ( Beja ) in the upper valley of the Bagradas , nominally to collect corn , but really to serve as a hostage for Jugurtha , who repaired to the Roman camp . He made his proposals to a military council , for form's sake ; but ...
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A History of the World from the Earliest Records to the Present Time: From ... Philip Smith Visualização integral - 1866 |
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Página 163 - Women received their dead raised to life again; and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection; and others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment.
Página 302 - Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors ; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Página 256 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says, he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see, that on the Lupercal, I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse.
Página 542 - And the people gave a shout, saying : — " It is the voice of a god, and not of a man." And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory : and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Página 554 - Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you : for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company.
Página 482 - Gibbon declares, in a memorable passage, that " if a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would without hesitation name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Página 546 - But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people...
Página 555 - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Página 598 - Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I blaspheme my King and my Saviour?
Página 281 - All crimes shall cease, and ancient fraud shall fail ; Returning Justice lift aloft her scale ; Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend, And white-robed Innocence from heaven descend.