The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The history of the worldThe University Press, 1829 - English literature |
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Page 537
... served under him , to pre- vail so easily against the barbarous Romans , that they should only serve as a step to his further intended conquests of Sicily and Afric . But when the Romans , by their vic- tory against Pyrrhus , had found ...
... served under him , to pre- vail so easily against the barbarous Romans , that they should only serve as a step to his further intended conquests of Sicily and Afric . But when the Romans , by their vic- tory against Pyrrhus , had found ...
Page 545
... served them therein . So through this disability of the Achæans , and insufficiency of their pretor , the Dymæans , with others , were driven to withhold their contribution heretofore made for the public service , and to convert the ...
... served them therein . So through this disability of the Achæans , and insufficiency of their pretor , the Dymæans , with others , were driven to withhold their contribution heretofore made for the public service , and to convert the ...
Page 548
... served to defend it . The town was preserved by the king from sack , and given to the Achæans , of his own mere motion , before they requested it . Thence went he to Lasion , which yielded for very fear , hearing how easily he had taken ...
... served to defend it . The town was preserved by the king from sack , and given to the Achæans , of his own mere motion , before they requested it . Thence went he to Lasion , which yielded for very fear , hearing how easily he had taken ...
Page 557
... serving fitly for his naviga- tion . Hereto also Leontius persuaded ; who considered that those winds , as they would easily carry him thither , so would they detain him there perforce , ( blowing all the dog- days , ) and make him ...
... serving fitly for his naviga- tion . Hereto also Leontius persuaded ; who considered that those winds , as they would easily carry him thither , so would they detain him there perforce , ( blowing all the dog- days , ) and make him ...
Page 558
... served well to carry the war into Ætolia ; since the pretor was gone thence abroad on roving , with the one half of their strength . As for Lycurgus , he was not strong enough to do much harm in Peloponnesus ; and it might suffice , if ...
... served well to carry the war into Ætolia ; since the pretor was gone thence abroad on roving , with the one half of their strength . As for Lycurgus , he was not strong enough to do much harm in Peloponnesus ; and it might suffice , if ...
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Achæans Achæus Æmilius ambassadors answer Antigonus Apelles Aratus Argos army Asia Assyria Athenians Athens Attalus bassadors battle began better brother Callicrates camp captains Carthaginians cause Chalcis CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE confederates consul Corinth danger death defend Demetrius desire durst Egypt Egyptian Eleans enemy entreated Etolians Eumenes father fear fell followed forces friends Gauls gave gotten Greece Greeks hand Hannibal hath Hereto honour hope horse Illyrian Iphi Julian king Antiochus king's kingdom Lacedæmon Lacedæmonians lately league liberty Lycortas Macedon Macedonian Machanidas manner Martius Masinissa Megaleas Nabis Nabon Olym peace Peloponnesus Pergamus Perseus Philip Philopomen piads Polyb Polybius pretor prince Ptolomy Quintius RALEGH ready reign rest Rhodians Rome Scipio Seleucus senate sent shewed shortly Sicyon slain soldiers spoil stood taken thence thereby Thessaly things thither thought thousand Titus took town tyrant unto the Romans victory Wherefore wherein whereof whilst
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Page 902 - I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Page 903 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet!
Page 900 - We have left it flourishing in the middle of the field, having rooted up or cut down all that kept it from the eyes and admiration of the world ; but, after some continuance, it shall begin to lose the beauty it had ; the storms of ambition shall beat her great boughs and branches one against another, her leaves shall fall off, her limbs wither, and a rabble of barbarous nations enter the field, and cut her down.
Page 902 - It is therefore Death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself. He tells the proud and insolent that they are but abjects, and humbles them at the instant ; makes them cry, complain, and repent, yea, even to hate their forepassed happiness. He takes the account of the rich, and proves him a beggar; a naked beggar, which hath interest in nothing, but in the gravel that fills his mouth. He holds a glass before the eyes of the most beautiful, and makes them see therein their deformity and rottenness;...
Page 901 - Germans, which had neither greatness nor continuance) there hath been no state fearful in the east, but that of the Turk ; nor in the west any prince that hath spread his wings far over his nest, but the Spaniard; who, since the time that Ferdinand expelled the Moors out of Granado, have made many attempts to make themselves masters of all Europe.
Page 900 - By this, which we have already set down, is seen the beginning and end of the three first monarchies of the world, whereof the founders and erecters thought that they could never have ended. That of Rome, which made the fourth, was also at this time almost at the highest. We have left it flourishing in the middle of the field, having rooted up or cut down all that kept it from the eyes and admiration of the world ; but, after some continuance...
Page 902 - ... them. They are always transported with the glory of the one, but they never mind the misery of the other till they find the experience in themselves. They neglect the advice of God while they enjoy life, or hope it; but they follow the counsel of Death upon his first approach. It is he that puts into man all the wisdom of the world, without speaking a word, which God, with all the words of his law, promises, or threats, doth not infuse. Death, which hateth and destroyeth man, is believed; God,...
Page 903 - World, implying a second and third volume, which I also intended and have hewn out ; besides many other discouragements persuading my silence, it hath pleased God to take that glorious prince out of the world, to whom they were directed ; whose unspeakable and never enough lamented loss hath taught me to say with Job (xxx.
Page 901 - ... they themselves would then rather have wished to have stolen out of the world without noise than to be put in mind that they have purchased the report of their actions in the world by rapine, oppression and cruelty, by giving in spoil the innocent and labouring soul to the idle and insolent...
Page 900 - Now these great kings and conquering nations have been the subject of those ancient histories which have been preserved and yet remain among us; and withal of so many tragical poets, as in the persons of powerful princes and other mighty men have complained against infidelity, time, destiny, and most of all against the variable success of worldly things and instability of fortune. To these undertakings the greatest lords of the world have been stirred up, rather by the desire of fame, which ploweth...