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 Æsop alphabet ancient animals aqueducts army Asia Assurbanipal Assyrian Athens Avesta Babylon Babylonians beautiful became Breasted bronze Buddha built called centuries Chaldean chief China Chinese Christ civilization clothing Confucius conquered conquest Courtesy Cyrus Darius early Egypt Egyptians empire Erech Europe evil FACTS TO REMEMBER famous feet flowers gold Greece Greek Hebrews Hindus hundred India Indo-European inscription irrigation Italy Jerusalem Julius Cæsar king land language Lars Porsena laws learned literature live Lord Macedonia ments Metropolitan Museum mountain Museum of Art nation Nebuchadnezzar never Nile painting palace Palestine Persepolis Persian Empire Persians Photo Service poems Pompey religion religious river Roman Rome ruins rule ruler says sculpture Semitic race slaves song soul stone story tablets temples thee things thou art Thutmose III tombs trees Underwood women wonderful writing Zoroaster
Passagens conhecidas
Página 137 - Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Página 193 - 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 152 - He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou prepares! a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life:...
Página 192 - But meanwhile axe and lever Have manfully been plied; And now the bridge hangs tottering Above the boiling tide. 'Come back, come back, Horatius!
Página 194 - And now he feels the bottom; Now on dry earth he stands; Now round him throng the Fathers To press his gory hands; And now, with shouts and clapping, And noise of weeping loud, He enters through the River-Gate, Borne by the joyous crowd.
Página 157 - 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 151 - If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.
Página 151 - Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
Página 141 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? and who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.