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... - tation of a matter hath been assigned as a probable cause . For since nature is confined unto a subject that is not un- RALEGH , VOL . IV . a Plut . in Vita Sertorii . bounded , the works of nature must needs be finite THE FIRST PART.
... - tation of a matter hath been assigned as a probable cause . For since nature is confined unto a subject that is not un- RALEGH , VOL . IV . a Plut . in Vita Sertorii . bounded , the works of nature must needs be finite THE FIRST PART.
Page 536
... subject within a while themselves unto the Medes and Persians . In like manner Darius , and after him Xerxes , fell upon the Greeks with such numbers of men as might have seemed resistless . But after that the Persians were beaten home ...
... subject within a while themselves unto the Medes and Persians . In like manner Darius , and after him Xerxes , fell upon the Greeks with such numbers of men as might have seemed resistless . But after that the Persians were beaten home ...
Page 538
... subject of our story , it is meet that we should relate ( though somewhat briefly ) the begin- ning of his reign , and his first actions . It was like to prove a busy time in the world , when , within the space of four years , new kings ...
... subject of our story , it is meet that we should relate ( though somewhat briefly ) the begin- ning of his reign , and his first actions . It was like to prove a busy time in the world , when , within the space of four years , new kings ...
Page 542
... subject against their wills to the Macedonians , expecting still when Cleomenes should return . out of Egypt to reign over them again , and maintain , as he was wont , the honour of their city . In this regard they chose not any kings ...
... subject against their wills to the Macedonians , expecting still when Cleomenes should return . out of Egypt to reign over them again , and maintain , as he was wont , the honour of their city . In this regard they chose not any kings ...
Page 543
... subjects unto the Macedonian , and far less by him respected than were the Achæans . Thus were they transported , by contemplation of their old nobility and fame . Some of the most working spirits among them procured the Ætolians to ...
... subjects unto the Macedonian , and far less by him respected than were the Achæans . Thus were they transported , by contemplation of their old nobility and fame . Some of the most working spirits among them procured the Ætolians to ...
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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.