The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The history of the worldThe University Press, 1829 - English literature |
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Agesilaus Alexander Alexander's ambassadors Antigonus Antipater Aridæus army Artaxerxes Asia the Less Athenians Athens Babylon Balthasar battle began Bessus brought called Cambyses camp captains Cassander caused commanded confederates courage Craterus Cyrus danger Darius death defend Demetrius Dercyllidas desire Egypt Egyptian empire enemies Eumenes Evilmerodach father fear fight fleet followed forces fortune friends gave give Grecians Greece Greeks hands hath held Hereupon honour hope hundred invaded king king's kingdom Lacedæmonians land liberty lord loss Lysimachus Macedon Macedonians Mardonius matter means Medes Nabuchodonosor nations Olympias Parmenio Pausanias peace Peloponnesus Perdiccas Persian persuaded Pharnabazus Philip Phocians Polysperchon princes provinces Ptolomy Pyrrhus reign rest river Romans saith SECT Seleucus sent shewed ships slain soldiers soon sought Sparta succour taken Thebans Thebes thereby things thought thousand foot thousand horse Tissaphernes took town unto valour victory Wherefore wherein whereof wherewith whilst Xenophon Xerxes
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Page 64 - O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed : there is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods ; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him...
Page 7 - And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon ; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia...
Page 63 - Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Page 7 - I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
Page 7 - Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,' saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Page 66 - I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
Page 10 - And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come, and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.
Page 34 - Yet thus saith the Lord God ; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered: and I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.
Page 311 - ... establish and to destroy, and to bring all things, persons, and states to the same certain ends which the infinite spirit of the Universal, piercing, moving, and governing all things, hath ordained. Certainly, the things that this King did were marvellous and would hardly have been undertaken by...
Page 8 - In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; in the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.