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Page iii
... Italy and antient Britain . In consequence of these , I have thought it desirable to omit the former Prefaces , that the price of this Edition might be increased as little as possible . Finding the great advantage of accustoming boys to ...
... Italy and antient Britain . In consequence of these , I have thought it desirable to omit the former Prefaces , that the price of this Edition might be increased as little as possible . Finding the great advantage of accustoming boys to ...
Page xi
... by Seleucus . Romans begin the Tarentine war . Achæan league begins . 280 Pyrrhus king of Epirus goes to Italy to assist the Tarentines . 278 The Gauls cut to pieces near Delphi . Age of Sostratus , Ol . JA . U.C.B. C. cxxvi . 3 . a 4 xi.
... by Seleucus . Romans begin the Tarentine war . Achæan league begins . 280 Pyrrhus king of Epirus goes to Italy to assist the Tarentines . 278 The Gauls cut to pieces near Delphi . Age of Sostratus , Ol . JA . U.C.B. C. cxxvi . 3 . a 4 xi.
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... Italy . 529 Justinian publishes his celebrated code , and four years after , his digest . Age of Belisarius . 581 About this time Latin ceases to be the language of Italy . 622 Mahomet , in his 53d year , flies from Mecca to Medina , on ...
... Italy . 529 Justinian publishes his celebrated code , and four years after , his digest . Age of Belisarius . 581 About this time Latin ceases to be the language of Italy . 622 Mahomet , in his 53d year , flies from Mecca to Medina , on ...
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... Italy , which resembles a Boot . The lower part of Italy is called the Kingdom of Naples . At the top of Italy , to the West is Genoa , and above , Piedmont , in which is Turin , the Capital of the King of Sardinia's Continental ...
... Italy , which resembles a Boot . The lower part of Italy is called the Kingdom of Naples . At the top of Italy , to the West is Genoa , and above , Piedmont , in which is Turin , the Capital of the King of Sardinia's Continental ...
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... Italy is Sicily , and below it the small but Under Genoa * Denmark and Norway , which had been sometimes under the same , and sometimes under different sovereigns , were united into one kingdom in 1417 , and so continued till 1814 ...
... Italy is Sicily , and below it the small but Under Genoa * Denmark and Norway , which had been sometimes under the same , and sometimes under different sovereigns , were united into one kingdom in 1417 , and so continued till 1814 ...
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Page 216 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 248 - Caesar et omnis luli progenies magnum caeli ventura sub axem. 790 hic vir, hic est, tibi quem promitti saepius audis, Augustus Caesar, divi genus, aurea condet saecula qui rursus Latio regnata per arva Saturno quondam, super et Garamantas et Indos proferet imperium ; iacet extra sidera tellus, extra anni solisque vias, ubi caelifer Atlas axem umero torquet stellis ardentibus aptum.
Page 48 - Arctic, on the East by the Pacific, and on the South by the Indian Ocean ; its Western boundary, which separates it from Europe, has already been described.
Page 105 - Portus ab accessu ventorum immotus et ingens 570 ipse; sed horrificis iuxta tonat Aetna ruinis interdumque atram prorumpit ad aethera nubem, turbine fumantem piceo et candente favilla, attollitque globos flammarum et sidera lambit: interdum scopulos avolsaque viscera montis 575 erigit eructans liquefactaque saxa sub auras cum gemitu glomerat fundoque exaestuat imo.
Page 105 - Scylla latus, laevum implacata Charybdis Obsidet, atque imo barathri ter gurgite vastos Sorbet in abruptum fluctus, rursusque sub auras Erigit alternos et sidera verberat unda. At Scyllam caecis cohibet spelunca latebris, 425 Ora exsertantem et naves in saxa trahentem. Prima hominis facies et pulchro pectore virgo Pube tenus, postrema immani corpore pistrix Delphinum caudas utero commissa luporum.
Page 250 - Temple (so celebrated in antiquity) of Jupiter Hammon, said to have been founded by Bacchus, in gratitude to his father Jupiter, who appeared to him, when perishing with thirst, in the form of a ram, and shewed him a fountain.