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Page 549
... hold them . So the king won more towns in the country , than the sharpness of winter would suffer him to stay there days . Fain he would have fought with the Ætolians ; but they made such haste from him , that he could not overtake them ...
... hold them . So the king won more towns in the country , than the sharpness of winter would suffer him to stay there days . Fain he would have fought with the Ætolians ; but they made such haste from him , that he could not overtake them ...
Page 552
... hold election of a new pretor . There , with much more labour than would have been needful in a business of more importance , the king , by fair words and threatenings together , obtained so much , that Eperatus , a very insufficient ...
... hold election of a new pretor . There , with much more labour than would have been needful in a business of more importance , the king , by fair words and threatenings together , obtained so much , that Eperatus , a very insufficient ...
Page 553
... hold their liberty entire , living after their own laws , without paying any manner of tribute , or being kept under by any garrison . These conditions were not to be despised , if they had found credit as they might have done . But ...
... hold their liberty entire , living after their own laws , without paying any manner of tribute , or being kept under by any garrison . These conditions were not to be despised , if they had found credit as they might have done . But ...
Page 554
... hold a " parliament of the Achæans ; and therein having made it " known what ye are , to depart into Macedon , and leave " you to yourselves . " Old Aratus gravely admonished the king , that whensoever he heard any accusation ...
... hold a " parliament of the Achæans ; and therein having made it " known what ye are , to depart into Macedon , and leave " you to yourselves . " Old Aratus gravely admonished the king , that whensoever he heard any accusation ...
Page 561
... hold out ; since they were not strong enough to keep the field , but had already suffered those miseries of war , which by a little continuance would make them glad each to seek their own peace , without regard of their confederates ...
... hold out ; since they were not strong enough to keep the field , but had already suffered those miseries of war , which by a little continuance would make them glad each to seek their own peace , without regard of their confederates ...
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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 900 - I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Page 901 - 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 jaeet ! Lastly, whereas this book, by the title it hath, calls itself The First Part of tlie General History of the World...
Page 898 - 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 899 - ... up the air and soweth in the wind, than by the affection of bearing rule, which draweth after it so much vexation and so many cares. And that this is true, the good advice of Cineas to Pyrrhus proves.
Page 900 - ... 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, and they acknowledge it.
Page 899 - 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 898 - 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 900 - ... 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, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.
Page 777 - ... mischievous actions, and afterwards to destroy them when they have performed the mischief, was not of his own invention. All ages have given us examples of this goodly policy; the latter having been apt scholars in this lesson to the more ancient, as the reign of Henry VIII.
Page 788 - There was a little city with few men in it; and a great king came against it and besieged it, building great siegeworks against it.