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Achæans Alexander Alexander's alliance ambassadors ambition Amphipolis Amyntas ancient Antigonus Antiochus Antipater arms army Arrian arrived Artabanus Asia Athenians Athens Bactria battle brother called Cassander cause cavalry celebrated Clitus command commenced conduct conqueror conquest Craterus crown Darius death decree defeated Demetrius Demosthenes designs despatched dominions Egypt empire enemy envoys Eschines Etolians Eumenes fath favour fear fled fleet foes forces garrison Grecian Greece Greeks hands honour Illyrians Indian Indus inhabitants invaded Jews joined king kingdom Leonnatus Lysimachus Macedonian monarch Macedonians marched miles mountains Nearchus Olynthians Olynthus orator Parthian passed peace Perdiccas Pergamus Perseus Persian Philip Phocians Phraates Polyxenidas Porus possession prince provinces Ptolemy received reign resolved retired revolt Rhodians river Romans Rome satrap says Scythians Seleucus sent siege slain Sogdians soldiers soon Syria temple territory Thebans Thebes Thessalians Thessaly Thrace Thracian throne tion took town treaty troops victory whence
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Page 174 - The poor wretch, who has learnt his only prayers From curses, who knows scarcely words enough To ask a blessing from his heavenly Father, Becomes a fluent phraseman, absolute And technical in victories and defeats, And all our dainty terms for fratricide...
Page 306 - And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
Page 60 - The darts of anguish fix not where the seat Of suffering hath been thoroughly fortified By acquiescence in the Will supreme For time and for eternity ; by faith, Faith absolute in God, including hope, And the defence that lies in boundless love Of his perfections ; with habitual dread Of aught unworthily conceived, endured Impatiently, ill-done, or left undone, To the dishonour of his holy name.
Page 322 - And they that understand among the people shall instruct many : yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
Page 306 - III. .TOR, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water...
Page 141 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 322 - And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
Page 308 - For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full of mixture, and he poureth out of the same : but the dregs thereof, all the •wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
Page 271 - FRET not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Page 256 - Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken ; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.