Elements of Universal History: On a New and Systematic Plan: from the Earliest Times to the Treaty of Vienna. To which is Added, a Summary of the Leading Events Since that Period. For the Use of Schools and Private StudentsLea & Blanchard, 1849 - 549 páginas |
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... senate . GRECIAN COLONIES . Before the invasion of the Dorians and the return of the Heraclidæ , the colonization of Greece is inextricably involved in the fictions of mythology ; but after that period it is more distinct , and its ...
... senate . GRECIAN COLONIES . Before the invasion of the Dorians and the return of the Heraclidæ , the colonization of Greece is inextricably involved in the fictions of mythology ; but after that period it is more distinct , and its ...
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... senators held the balance between them and the people . All the lands were divided into equal portions : 9000 shares * Mr. Fynes Clinton , the most laborious and profound of modern chronologers , makes Lycurgus contemporary with Homer ...
... senators held the balance between them and the people . All the lands were divided into equal portions : 9000 shares * Mr. Fynes Clinton , the most laborious and profound of modern chronologers , makes Lycurgus contemporary with Homer ...
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... senate of twenty - eight ; the popular assembly had no other privilege than that of electing the senators , who held their places for life . The government was therefore far from being a demo- cracy . The power of the king was supreme ...
... senate of twenty - eight ; the popular assembly had no other privilege than that of electing the senators , who held their places for life . The government was therefore far from being a demo- cracy . The power of the king was supreme ...
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... senate of 100 members , and an assembly of the people . The judges were annually chosen from the oldest and most opulent families ; and the popular assembly was appealed to only when the opinions of the senate and the council of five ...
... senate of 100 members , and an assembly of the people . The judges were annually chosen from the oldest and most opulent families ; and the popular assembly was appealed to only when the opinions of the senate and the council of five ...
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... senate . At the close of a disastrous war with the Sabines , he was compelled to share his crown with Tatius , their king , though he soon became sole monarch again . After a reign of thirty - seven years he was murdered by the senators ...
... senate . At the close of a disastrous war with the Sabines , he was compelled to share his crown with Tatius , their king , though he soon became sole monarch again . After a reign of thirty - seven years he was murdered by the senators ...
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Página 19 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Página 46 - First, Moloch, horrid King, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears; Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard that passed through fire To his grim idol.
Página 128 - It is almost superfluous to enumerate the unworthy successors of Augustus. Their unparalleled vices, and the splendid theatre on which they were acted, have saved them from oblivion. The dark unrelenting Tiberius, the furious Caligula, the feeble Claudius, the profligate and cruel Nero, the beastly Vitellius, and the timid inhuman Domitian, are condemned tp everlasting infamy.
Página 513 - This species infests a great variety of plants, and is to be found throughout our country from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Página 111 - Moreover they bewailed him, and all Israel made great lamentation for him, and mourned many days, saying, How is the valiant man fallen, that delivered Israel!
Página 235 - An army marching under the emperor Otho I. was so terrified by an eclipse of the sun, which it conceived to announce this consummation, as to disperse hastily on all sides. As this notion...
Página 132 - ... to death. For these spectacles, Nero gave his own gardens; and at the same time exhibited there the diversions of the circus ; sometimes standing in the crowd as a spectator, in the habit of a charioteer, and at other times driving a chariot himself...
Página 154 - ... they would consecrate their services to the defence of the empire. How the declarations of this million of suppliants were kept, the reader will find detailed elsewhere. THE CHURCH. . The Christian religion, although severely persecuted, resembled the herb that flourishes best when most trodden upon. The blood of the martyrs was the seed of the Church, and hence converts rapidly spread over the empire, and to the remotest parts of the world.