The Enchanted Past: True Stories of the Lands where Civilization BeganGinn, 1922 - 230 páginas |
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The Enchanted Past: True Stories of the Lands where Civilization Began Jeannette Rector Hodgdon Visualização integral - 1922 |
The Enchanted Past: True Stories of the Lands where Civilization Began Jeannette Rector Hodgdon Visualização integral - 1922 |
The Enchanted Past: True Stories of the Lands where Civilization Began Jeannette Rector Hodgdon Visualização integral - 1922 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Æneid Africa alphabet ancient animals aqueducts army Asia Assurbanipal Assyrian Athens Avesta Babylon Babylonia beautiful became Breasted bronze Buddha built called centuries Chaldean chief China Chinese Christ civilization clothing color Confucius conquered conquest Courtesy Cyrus Darius early Egypt Egyptians empire Europe evil FACTS TO REMEMBER famous feet flowers gold Greece Greek Hatshepsut Hebrews Hindus hundred India Indo-European inscription irrigation Italy Jerusalem Julius Cæsar king land language Lars Porsena laws learned literature live Macedonia Mediterranean ments Metropolitan Museum monuments mountain Museum of Art nation Nile obelisk painting palace Palestine Persepolis Persians Photo Service poems Pompey religion religious river Roman Rome ruins rule ruler says sculpture Semitic race Sennacherib slaves song stone story tablets temples thee things thou art Thutmose III tombs trees tribes Underwood women wonderful writing Zoroaster
Passagens conhecidas
Página 188 - Back darted Spurius Lartius; Herminius darted back: And as they passed, beneath their feet They felt the timbers crack. But when they turned their faces. And on the farther shore Saw brave Horatius stand alone, They would have crossed once more.
Página 189 - Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in mind ; Thrice thirty thousand foes before, And the broad flood behind. "Down with him ! " cried false Sextus, With a smile on his pale face ; "Now yield thee," cried Lars Porsena, "Now yield thee to our grace.
Página 190 - Tiber! father Tiber! To whom the Romans pray; A Roman's life, a Roman's arms Take thou in charge this day ! " So he spake, and speaking sheathed The good sword by his side. And with his harness on his back, Plunged headlong in the tide. No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bank; But friends and foes, in dumb surprise, With parted lips and straining eyes, Stood gazing where he sank; And when above the surges They saw his crest appear. All Rome sent forth a rapturous cry, And even the ranks...
Página 153 - Judge not, and ye shall not be judged : condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned : forgive, and ye shall be forgiven : give, and it shall be given unto you : good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Página 15 - For Yesterday is but a Dream, And Tomorrow is only a Vision; But Today well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Página 172 - Thus having spoke, the illustrious chief of Troy Stretch'd his fond arms to clasp the lovely boy. The babe clung crying to his nurse's breast, Scared at the dazzling helm and nodding crest. With secret pleasure each fond parent smiled, And Hector hasted to relieve his child, The glittering terrors from his brows unbound, And...
Página 172 - There guide the spindle, and direct the loom : Me glory summons to the martial scene, The field of combat is the sphere for men. Where heroes war, the foremost place I claim, The first in danger as the first in fame.
Página 190 - Round turned he, as not deigning Those craven ranks to see ; Naught spake he to Lars Porsena, To Sextus naught spake he; But he saw on Palatinus The white porch of his home ; And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the towers of Rome: "O Tiber! Father Tiber! To whom the Romans pray, A Roman's life, a Roman's arms, Take thou in charge this day...
Página 26 - Thy dawning is beautiful in the horizon of the sky, O living Aton, Beginning of life ! When thou risest in the eastern horizon, Thou fillest every land with thy beauty.
Página 19 - Weep not, my daughter, check the gathering tear That lurks beneath thine eyelid, ere it flow And weaken thy resolve; be firm and true — True to thyself and me; the path of life Will lead o'er hill and plain, o'er rough and smooth, And all must feel the steepness of the way, Though rugged be thy course, press boldly on. SARNGARAVA : Venerable sire! the sacred precept is— "Accompany thy friend as far as the margin of the first stream.