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Strona iii
... themselves their final ruin and deftruc tion . From thefe and other like events occurring in hiftory , every judicious reader may form prudent and unerring rules for the conduct of his life , both in a private and public capacity . But ...
... themselves their final ruin and deftruc tion . From thefe and other like events occurring in hiftory , every judicious reader may form prudent and unerring rules for the conduct of his life , both in a private and public capacity . But ...
Strona xviii
... themselves mightily on the antiquity of their nation . Herodotus wrote other books befides the history now extant ; for Ariftotle ' finds fault with him for faying , that an eagle drank during the fiege of Nineveh , whereas no bird with ...
... themselves mightily on the antiquity of their nation . Herodotus wrote other books befides the history now extant ; for Ariftotle ' finds fault with him for faying , that an eagle drank during the fiege of Nineveh , whereas no bird with ...
Strona xxxi
... themselves often worked upon materials already prepared , and only put into verse what they found regiftred in the annals of their country . Bug who can warrant , that the priests , who in most nations were the first annalists , did not ...
... themselves often worked upon materials already prepared , and only put into verse what they found regiftred in the annals of their country . Bug who can warrant , that the priests , who in most nations were the first annalists , did not ...
Strona xxxii
... themselves any certain proof , that they deferve no cre- dit . Oftentimes , with refpect to things that have hap- pened in our days , and almost in our fight , we find a difference in the accounts given by those who were eye- witnelles ...
... themselves any certain proof , that they deferve no cre- dit . Oftentimes , with refpect to things that have hap- pened in our days , and almost in our fight , we find a difference in the accounts given by those who were eye- witnelles ...
Strona xxxiii
... themselves , but from any thing we now fee or are acquainted with , that it would have been hardly poffible to give juft ideas of them with- out explications , which could not have well been brought into the text . The thread of the ...
... themselves , but from any thing we now fee or are acquainted with , that it would have been hardly poffible to give juft ideas of them with- out explications , which could not have well been brought into the text . The thread of the ...
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Strona 194 - And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
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Strona 124 - Of this we find traces in thofe ancient and valuable books, which the Chinefe call, by way of eminence, The Five Volumes, being the canonical or claffical books of the higheft rank, which they look upon as the fource of all their fcience and morality. . The chief object of their worfhip then, at firft was the Supreme Being, the Lord and Sovereign Principle of all things, whom they adored under the name either Shang-ti, that is Supreme Emperor, or Tyen, which, with the Chinefe, fignifies the fame...
Strona iii - By these records it is that we live, as it were, in the very time when the world was created ; we behold how it was governed in its...
Strona 140 - He created six ko-lau or Prime Ministers§ to assist him in governing his empire. He appointed a professor of music, whose duty was to explain the order and arrangement of the different tones. He taught the way of making flutes, fifes, and organs, trumpets that imitated the voice of the dragon, and drums that made the noise of thunder. He divided his country into principalities, in each of which he caused cities to be erected. He introduced the use of wheeled carriages, and the training of horses...
Strona xxiv - But curing Artaxerxes of a wound he received in the battle, he became a great favourite at the court of Persia, where he continued practising physic for 17 years, and was employed in several negotiations. He wrote the History of Persia...