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... Athens : -and the Tarquins from Rome . Q. What is the brightest page of Grecian History ? A. That which contains the period between 500 and 400 years before Christ , from the battle of Marathon , to the death of Socrates . Q. At what ...
... Athens : -and the Tarquins from Rome . Q. What is the brightest page of Grecian History ? A. That which contains the period between 500 and 400 years before Christ , from the battle of Marathon , to the death of Socrates . Q. At what ...
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... Athens ? A. The Archons . Q. What was the doxpaola ? A. A strict scrutiny into the private character of a Magistrate before his appointment . Q. The Evoury ? A. The account to be rendered by a Magistrate on his going out of office . Q ...
... Athens ? A. The Archons . Q. What was the doxpaola ? A. A strict scrutiny into the private character of a Magistrate before his appointment . Q. The Evoury ? A. The account to be rendered by a Magistrate on his going out of office . Q ...
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... Athens ? A. A common informer , but in its original meaning , against those only who exported figs . Q. What was their great Court of Justice ? A. That of Areopagus , or Mars ' Hill . Q. What was the Senate of Athens ? A. The Council of ...
... Athens ? A. A common informer , but in its original meaning , against those only who exported figs . Q. What was their great Court of Justice ? A. That of Areopagus , or Mars ' Hill . Q. What was the Senate of Athens ? A. The Council of ...
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... Athens ? A. The Academy or School of Plato ; the ' Portico , or School of Zeno and of the Stoics ; the Lyceum , or School of Aristotle and the ' Peripatetics ; Cynosarges , or the School of Antisthenes and the Cynics ; and the gardens ...
... Athens ? A. The Academy or School of Plato ; the ' Portico , or School of Zeno and of the Stoics ; the Lyceum , or School of Aristotle and the ' Peripatetics ; Cynosarges , or the School of Antisthenes and the Cynics ; and the gardens ...
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... Athens and over the largest part of the Grecian Empire . Q. How were the Athenian citizens distinguished from the peroxo , or foreign settlers ? A. The citizens alone had any share in the govern- ment ; they called themselves Aúróxloves ...
... Athens and over the largest part of the Grecian Empire . Q. How were the Athenian citizens distinguished from the peroxo , or foreign settlers ? A. The citizens alone had any share in the govern- ment ; they called themselves Aúróxloves ...
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Page 48 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ; Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, — which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet...
Page 18 - Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother ; James, the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; 3 Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alpheus, and Lebbeus, whose surname was Thaddeus ; 4 Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
Page 45 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselve»dishonourable graves.
Page 46 - fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Page 6 - Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.
Page 37 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November : February hath twenty-eight alone, And all the rest have thirty-one ; But leap year coming once in four, February then has one day more.
Page 9 - DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the First Sunday after the Full Moon which happens upon, or next after the Twenty-first Day of March ; and if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.
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Page 29 - The Colossus of Rhodes; The Sepulchre of Mausolus; The Palace of Cyrus; The Pyramids of Egypt; The Statue of Jupiter, at Olympia; The Temple of Diana, at Ephesus; The Walls of Babylon. The Seven Birth-places of Homer: Septem urbes certant de stirpe insignis Homed, Smyrna, Chios, Colophon, Salamis, Rhodos, Argos, Athenae.
Page 74 - Non habet officii Lucifer omnis idem. Ille Nefastus erit, per quern tria verba silentur : Fastus erit, per quern lege licebit agi.