The Historical Reader: Designed for Use of Schools and Families. On a New PlanHoratio Hill & Company; Hill & Barton, printers, 1830 - 372 páginas |
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... Antony Death of Cleopatra The Captive Lady Death of Cæsar Catiline's Conspiracy The Tears of Judah Destruction of Jerusalem Order of Nature The Fall of Rome Rise of Mahometanism Empire of China PAGE 9 12 15 ib . 18 22 23 26 29 31 34 36 ...
... Antony Death of Cleopatra The Captive Lady Death of Cæsar Catiline's Conspiracy The Tears of Judah Destruction of Jerusalem Order of Nature The Fall of Rome Rise of Mahometanism Empire of China PAGE 9 12 15 ib . 18 22 23 26 29 31 34 36 ...
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... Antony and Cassius , at that time tribunes of the people , left Rome and repaired to Cæsar's camp . 3. The senate , apprehensive of his designs , pronounced a decree , branding , with the crime of parricide , any command . er who should ...
... Antony and Cassius , at that time tribunes of the people , left Rome and repaired to Cæsar's camp . 3. The senate , apprehensive of his designs , pronounced a decree , branding , with the crime of parricide , any command . er who should ...
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... ANTONY . 1. ANTONY , being lost in luxury and effeminacy with Cle- opatra , gave Cæsar * time to get his forces together , who might otherwise have been easily defeated , had Antony come upon him before he was prepared . Antony's fleet ...
... ANTONY . 1. ANTONY , being lost in luxury and effeminacy with Cle- opatra , gave Cæsar * time to get his forces together , who might otherwise have been easily defeated , had Antony come upon him before he was prepared . Antony's fleet ...
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... Antony and Cleopatra escaped to Alexandria , where she put many great persons to death , fearing they might take up arms against her on account of the defeat she had met with . To avoid falling into the hands of Cæsar , she formed the ...
... Antony and Cleopatra escaped to Alexandria , where she put many great persons to death , fearing they might take up arms against her on account of the defeat she had met with . To avoid falling into the hands of Cæsar , she formed the ...
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... Antony , to dispel his suspicions and complaints . 5. Cæsar , being fully sensible that it was of the highest importance to him not to leave his victory unfinished , invest- ed Pelusium , and summoned the governor to open the gates ...
... Antony , to dispel his suspicions and complaints . 5. Cæsar , being fully sensible that it was of the highest importance to him not to leave his victory unfinished , invest- ed Pelusium , and summoned the governor to open the gates ...
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Página 157 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Página 157 - Air, and ye elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Página 22 - Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such a world. To see the stir Of the great Babel and not feel the crowd. To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Página 69 - THOU hast left them to their own. But, present still, though now unseen ; When brightly shines the prosperous day, Be thoughts of THEE a cloudy screen To temper the deceitful ray. And...
Página 104 - Cease, then, nor Order, Imperfection name—• Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee. Submit; — in this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear — Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
Página 68 - When Israel, of the Lord beloved, Out from the land of bondage came, Her father's God before her moved, An awful guide, in smoke and flame. By day, along the astonished lands, . The cloudy pillar glided slow ; By night, Arabia's crimsoned sands Returned the fiery column's glow.
Página 103 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God begau ; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach ; from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing.
Página 349 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Página 329 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Página 256 - ... neither would he compare the friendship between him and them to a Chain, for the rain might sometimes rust it, or a tree might fall and break it; but he should consider them as the same flesh and blood with the Christians, and the same as if one man's body were to be divided into two parts.