Alexander the Great: A Dramatic PoemH.S. King, 1874 - 231 páginas |
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... Persia to colossal labours, such as those river improvements and canals which were to have connected the Mediterranean with the Indian Sea. If he scattered those treasures at times with a pro-< digal hand it was to circulate the gold ...
... Persia to colossal labours, such as those river improvements and canals which were to have connected the Mediterranean with the Indian Sea. If he scattered those treasures at times with a pro-< digal hand it was to circulate the gold ...
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... Persia only in its universality , and its more perfect military system . In defence of this opinion he alleges that Alexander , like the Persian kings , left some of the conquered princes undisturbed on their acknowledging him as their ...
... Persia only in its universality , and its more perfect military system . In defence of this opinion he alleges that Alexander , like the Persian kings , left some of the conquered princes undisturbed on their acknowledging him as their ...
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... Persian court ceremonial , despite the angry jealousies of the Greeks . Alex- ander's conduct in this respect proves only that , although he had great " ideas , " he was not an idealist . His mind was at once idealistic and practical ...
... Persian court ceremonial , despite the angry jealousies of the Greeks . Alex- ander's conduct in this respect proves only that , although he had great " ideas , " he was not an idealist . His mind was at once idealistic and practical ...
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... also accused of ostentation ; yet against petty vanities Alexander would have found a protection in his pride , if in nothing better , and Arrian is doubtless right in the remark that " his assuming and wearing the Persian Preface . XV.
... also accused of ostentation ; yet against petty vanities Alexander would have found a protection in his pride , if in nothing better , and Arrian is doubtless right in the remark that " his assuming and wearing the Persian Preface . XV.
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... Persian habit seems to have been done with a political view , that he might appear not altogether to despise the barbarians , and that he might also have some curb to the arrogance and insolence of his Macedonians . And for this cause ...
... Persian habit seems to have been done with a political view , that he might appear not altogether to despise the barbarians , and that he might also have some curb to the arrogance and insolence of his Macedonians . And for this cause ...
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ALEXANDER Alexander's AMASTRIS AMYNTAS ANTIGONUS ANTISTHENES army Arrian ARSINOE ARTABAZUS Asian ASTAR Babylon Babylonian battle blood brow CALANUS Captain CASSANDER Cleitus cloth Colonel Cornhill CRATERUS Crown 8vo Darius dead death Demy 8vo died earth Ecbatana Edward Jenkins Egypt empire EUMENES eyes fane Fcap friends Ginx's Baby gods Granicus grave Grecian Greece Greek hand hath heart HEPHESTION Hephestion's Hypaspists Illustrated India king kingdom knew late Lectures live London Lords Macedon Macedonian Magian Mall Gazette military mother nought o'er once palace PARMENIO pass'd Paternoster Row PERDICCAS Persian PEUCESTAS PHILOTAS PHYLAX Post 8vo Price pride PRIEST Prof PTOLEMY Published by Henry QUEEN realm reverent royal Satrap SCENE Second Edition seem'd SELEUCUS Sermons Service Gazette sire SISYGAMBIS Small crown 8vo soldiers song spake temple thee things thou thought throne tomb Translated truth Twas Tyre volume yonder
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