Bibliotheca Classica: Or, A Classical Dictionary ... Containing an ... Account of the Proper Names ... in Greek and Latin Authors, Relating to History, Biography, Mythology, Geography, and AntiquitiesLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1833 - 927 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 116 - Q thing about it was in the highest degree grand and awful. Its desolate, although majestic features, are well suited to the tales related concerning it by the inhabitants of the country, who all speak of it with terror, seeming to shrink from the narrative of its deceitful allurements and deadly influence : " Beautiful fruit," say they " grows upon its shores, which is no sooner touched than it becomes dust and bitter ashes.
الصفحة 313 - It was reckoned unlawful to commit any of their doctrines to writing; hence, many of their peculiar tenets are now unknown. It is generally supposed they believed in the immortality of the soul, and also the metempsychosis. Of natural philosophy, astronomy, arithmetic, and botany, it cannot be doubted their knowledge was very considerable. To the...
الصفحة 87 - ... messenger of the gods, and deity of eloquence, commerce, and the a ts. He conducted the souls of the dead into the lower world, and is usually represented with a winged hat and sandals, bearing the caduceus in his hand. Hermes was born on Mount Cylleue, in Arcadia.
الصفحة 161 - Agriope, who was ordered by his father to go in search of his sister Europa, whom Jupiter had carried away, and not to return unless he found her. His search being unsuccessful, he Is said...
الصفحة 292 - Upon each side of the river, as far as the eye could reach, we saw rich fields of corn and rice, with such beautiful groves, seeming to rise out of the watery plains, and to shade innumerable settlements in the Delta, amidst never-ending plantations of melons, and all kinds of garden vegetables, that, from the abundance of its harvests, Egypt may be deemed the richest country in the world.
الصفحة 383 - ... several masters, Turkish and Saracenic, and in 1099 it was taken by the crusaders under Godfrey Bouillon, who was elected king. He was succeeded by his brother Baldwin, who died in 1118. In 1187, Saladin, sultan of the East, captured the city, assisted by the treachery of Raymond, count of Tripoli, who was found dead in his bed on the morning of the day in which he was to have delivered up the city. It was restored, in 1242, to the Latin princes, by Saleh Ismael, emir of Damascus; they lost it...
الصفحة 319 - Africa corn can only be grown out of season in the damp ground on the banks of the rivers, or on the shores of the lakes.
الصفحة 31 - ... his image was crowned, and to put on one of wool instead, saying that the golden fillet was cold in winter and heavy in summer. So he derided his god as being unable to bear either a weight or cold. He, too, when he saw the golden beard of ^Esculapius, bade them remove it, saying that it was not fit for the son to have a beard when the father had none.
الصفحة 305 - ... Pontus, which he and his father, who was a banker, were compelled to quit, for coining false money. On settling at Athens, he studied philosophy under Antisthenes. From his writings being lost, the extent of his information and his discoveries in science are unknown. That he had the reputation of being a great genius seems undeniable ; although much of his celebrity may be referred to the strictness of his tenets, contempt of comfort, and oddity of manner. It must not be inferred that because...
الصفحة 153 - Andrews, he proceeded to the Continent, where he prosecuted the study of international law at Paris, and of military science in Germany. When his education was completed he entered the army, in which he rose to the rank of general His chief attention was, however, devoted to diplomacy. In...