Xenophon's Expedition of Cyrus, with English Notes, Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges...1839 |
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الصفحة 251 - Cyrus he would take care all should go well. Now the barbarians came regularly on ; and the Greek army standing on the same ground, the ranks were...
الصفحة 284 - Neither do men put new wine into old bottles : else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish : but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
الصفحة ii - States entitled an act for the encouragement of learning hy securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the author., and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and also to an act entitled an act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and...
الصفحة 246 - House' (Winifred Mallon in Liberty, Feb. 28, 1925). The concessive clause can sometimes be abridged to an infinitive clause when the subject of the infinitive is the same as that of the main proposition: 'You couldn't do that to save your life.
الصفحة ii - An act supplementary to an act, entitled, * An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned,* and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.
الصفحة 228 - lord of the umbrella, or shade of state." Bearing an umbrella, as a distinction of dignity, is still a custom in many countries of the East ; and that it was so from the earliest times in Persia, may be gathered from the sculptures at Persepolis, where that sort of shade is held over the figure of the chief or king, whether he is seated or walking.
الصفحة 277 - IMPLE and well known though the fact may be, according to the explanations of astronomical science, that a solar eclipse is caused by the intervention of the moon between the sun and the earth during the daytime, and that the effect of such interposition is to obstruct the sun's rays — the light being turned into darkness while the phenomenon lasts — a total solar eclipse is, without doubt, the most sublime and awe-inspiring spectacle upon which the eye of man is permitted to gaze. By...
الصفحة vii - Books, — study, — composition ; — the healthy sports of the field, and the enjoyments of social recreation, — nothing seems wanting to the picture, which our imaginations are accustomed to draw of an accomplished heathen philosopher. Stageirite...
الصفحة 293 - Asia properly so called, two hundred and twenty years (elsewhere he says four hundred) in building, which we are to understand of its successive rebuildings and reparations, being often wasted and destroyed. It was four hundred and twentyfive feet long, two hundred and twenty broad, supported by one hundred and twenty-seven pillars, sixty feet high ; for its antiquity, it was in some degree before the times of Bacchus, equal to the Amazons, (by whom it is generally said to have been first built,)...
الصفحة 243 - ... slightly in scattered patches. We saw here many large vultures, and some common hawks. The aspect of the country was dull and uninteresting, as there was neither mountain, valley, nor even plain ; the whole being an unequal surface, like the high and long waves of a deep sea when subsiding from a tempest into a calm, — and not a tree any where in sight to relieve the monotony of the scene.* * The description given of the Plains of Mesopotamia, by Xenophon, is strikingly accurate.