The Book of the SwordChatto and Windus, 1884 - Всего страниц: 299 |
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... century , when the weapon of offence assumed its defensive phase and rose to a height of splendour that prognosticated downfall , as surely as the bursting of a rocket precedes its extinction . Part III . continues the memoirs of the ...
... century , when the weapon of offence assumed its defensive phase and rose to a height of splendour that prognosticated downfall , as surely as the bursting of a rocket precedes its extinction . Part III . continues the memoirs of the ...
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... century , that mighty landmark separating the dark Past from the brilliant Present of Europe . The sudden awaking and excitement of man's mind , produced by the revival of learning and the marriage - union of the West with the East ; by ...
... century , that mighty landmark separating the dark Past from the brilliant Present of Europe . The sudden awaking and excitement of man's mind , produced by the revival of learning and the marriage - union of the West with the East ; by ...
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... century . The reason is evident . The Northerners hacked with hangers , they hewed with hatchets , and they cut with ... centuries has the Sword been so ardently studied as it is now by the Latin race in France and Italy . At no time ...
... century . The reason is evident . The Northerners hacked with hangers , they hewed with hatchets , and they cut with ... centuries has the Sword been so ardently studied as it is now by the Latin race in France and Italy . At no time ...
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... century so charmed the ' fiery and fastidious Alfieri , ' lingers only amongst a few . True the swash - buckler , the professional duellist , has disappeared . But courtesy and punctiliousness , the politeness of man to man , and ...
... century so charmed the ' fiery and fastidious Alfieri , ' lingers only amongst a few . True the swash - buckler , the professional duellist , has disappeared . But courtesy and punctiliousness , the politeness of man to man , and ...
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... centuries . I was shown , in the museum of Aquileja , a Roman sword ' which was a basket - hilted Venetian , hardly two hundred years old . It is only an exact chronology , made to frame the Geo- graphical and the Formal pictures of the ...
... centuries . I was shown , in the museum of Aquileja , a Roman sword ' which was a basket - hilted Venetian , hardly two hundred years old . It is only an exact chronology , made to frame the Geo- graphical and the Formal pictures of the ...
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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.