The Book of the SwordChatto and Windus, 1884 - Всего страниц: 299 |
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... India in 1875-6 . The short period of months served only to show that a memoir of the Sword embraces the annals of the world . The long term of years has convinced me that to treat the subject in its totality is impossible within ...
... India in 1875-6 . The short period of months served only to show that a memoir of the Sword embraces the annals of the world . The long term of years has convinced me that to treat the subject in its totality is impossible within ...
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... India . The arms and armour of the ' great Interamnian Plain ' afford material for a third ( Chapter X. ) . Thence , retracing our steps and passing farther westwards , we find manifest derivation and immense improvement of the Egyptian ...
... India . The arms and armour of the ' great Interamnian Plain ' afford material for a third ( Chapter X. ) . Thence , retracing our steps and passing farther westwards , we find manifest derivation and immense improvement of the Egyptian ...
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... India in quest of sword - lore . Difficulty and danger are , however , words which must have been long since erased from the dictionary of the undaunted scholar and explorer , who , in the earliest days of his military career , passed ...
... India in quest of sword - lore . Difficulty and danger are , however , words which must have been long since erased from the dictionary of the undaunted scholar and explorer , who , in the earliest days of his military career , passed ...
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... India in 1875-6 . The short period of months served only to show that a memoir of the Sword embraces the annals of the world . The long term of years has convinced me that to treat the subject in its totality is impossible within ...
... India in 1875-6 . The short period of months served only to show that a memoir of the Sword embraces the annals of the world . The long term of years has convinced me that to treat the subject in its totality is impossible within ...
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... India . The arms and armour of the ' great Interamnian Plain ' afford material for a third ( Chapter X. ) . Thence , retracing our steps and passing further westwards , we find manifest derivation and immense improvement of the Egyptian ...
... India . The arms and armour of the ' great Interamnian Plain ' afford material for a third ( Chapter X. ) . Thence , retracing our steps and passing further westwards , we find manifest derivation and immense improvement of the Egyptian ...
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Стр. 166 - From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
Стр. 16 - Arma antiqua, manus, ungues, dentesque fuerunt, Et lapides, et item sylvarum fragmina rami, Et ílammae, atque ignes, postquam suntcognitaprimum: Posterius ferri vis est aerisque reperta : Et prior aeris erat quam ferri cognitus usus ; Quo facilis magis est natura, et copia major.
Стр. 50 - Surely there is a vein for the silver, And a place for gold where they fine it. Iron is taken out of the earth, And brass is molten out of the stone.
Стр. 178 - And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri. 8 When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
Стр. 16 - ... cum prorepserunt primis animalia terris, mutum et turpe pecus, glandem atque cubilia propter unguibus et pugnis, dein fustibus atque ita porro pugnabant armis, quae post fabricaverat usus, donec verba, quibus voces sensusque notarent, nominaque invenere; dehinc absistere bello, oppida coeperunt munire et ponere leges, ne quis fur esset neu latro neu quis adulter.
Стр. 50 - ... a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and...
Стр. 109 - One day he handed to his neighbours the following verses of his own composing to be spread about : — " Ding dong ! The hammer-strokes fall long and fast, Until the Iron turns to Steel at last ! Now shall the long long Day of Rest begin, The Land of Bliss Eternal calls me in." Thereupon he died. But his verses spread all over Honan, and many learned to call upon Buddha
Стр. xviii - Museum under the authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council. From Photographs, Plans, and Drawings taken by Order of the Government of India. By HENRY HARDY COLE, LIEUT. RE, Superintendent Archaeological Survey of India, North-West Provinces.
Стр. 17 - Like the three principal colours of the rainbow, these three stages of civilization overlap, intermingle, and shade off the one into the other; and yet their succession, so far as Western Europe is concerned, appears to be equally well defined with that of the prismatic colours, though the proportions of the spectrum may vary in different countries.
Стр. 179 - I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner : 29 Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.