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Æschines Agbatana Alex Alexander Alexander's Alexandria allies Amphiktyonic Amphipolis Amyntas arms army Arrian Asia Asiatic Athenian Athens attack Babylon Baktria bank battle became Bessos capital cavalry centre Chaironeia chariots command Companion cavalry crossed danger Darius death defeat Delphoi Demosthenes desert donian Egean Egypt empire enemy envoys Euboia Euphrates fertile fighting flank fleet force friends garrison Gates Gaugamela Greece Greek Haliakmon hand harbour Hellas Hellenic Hephaistion Heraklês honour horse Indus infantry Issos king of Macedon king's Kleitos Krateros Macedonian Marakanda mercenaries miles mountains Nearchos numbers Olynthos once Oxus Parmenion pass peace Pella Perdikkas Persepolis Persian Phalaikos phalanx Philip Philotas Phoenicia Phokians Phokis plain plateau Poros Pydna reached rear resistance river ruins satraps seized sent side siege slain Sogdiana soldiers Sparta Spitamenês struggle success Susa Thebans Thebes Thermopylai Thessalian Thessaly tion town tribes troops turned Tyre valley vast victory walls wing
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Page i - RESTORATION AND LOUIS XIV. 1648-1678. CHURCH'S BEGINNING OF THE MIDDLE AGES. COX'S CRUSADES. CREIGHTON'S AGE OF ELIZABETH. GAIRDNER'S HOUSES OF LANCASTER AND YORK. GARDINER'S THIRTY YEARS
Page i - EPOCHS OF ANCIENT HISTORY. Edited by the Rev. Sir GW COX, Bart. MA and by C. SANKEY, MA 10 vols.
Page i - CENTURY, or the Age of the Antonines. COX'S ATHENIAN EMPIRE, from the Flight of Xerxes to the Fall of Athens. COX'S GREEKS AND PERSIANS. CURTEIS'S RISE OF THE MACEDONIAN EMPIRE. IHNE'S ROME TO ITS CAPTURE BY THE QAULS.
Page i - CAPES'S EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE, from the Assassination of Julius Caesar to the Assassination of Domitian. CAPES'S ROMAN EMPIRE OF THE SECOND CENTURY, or the Age of the Antonines. COX'S ATHENIAN EMPIRE, from the Flight of Xerxes to the Fall of Athens. COX'S GREEKS AND PERSIANS. CURTEIS'S RISE OF THE MACEDONIAN EMPIRE.
Page 207 - ... him to effect. Great, not merely in the vast compass, and the persevering ardour, of his ambition: nor in the qualities by which he was enabled to gratify it, and to crowd so many memorable actions within so short a period: but in the course which his ambition took, in the collateral aims which ennobled and purified it, so that it almost grew into one with the highest of which man is capable, the desire of knowledge, and the love of good.
Page ii - By JAMES ROWLEY, MA gd. ENGLAND DURING THE AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN WARS from 1765 to 1820. By the Rev. OW TANCOCK, MA gd.
Page i - FALL OF THE STUARTS, AND WESTERN EUROPE FROM 1678-1697. JOHNSON'S NORMANS IN EUROPE. LONGMAN'S FREDERICK THE GREAT AND THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR. LUDLOW'S WAR OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, 1775-1783. MCCARTHY'S EPOCH OF REFORM, 1830-1850. MOBERLY'S THE EARLY TUDORS. MORRIS'S AGE OF ANNE. MORRIS'S THE EARLY HANOVERIANS. SEEBOHM'S PROTESTANT REVOLUTION. STUBBS'S THE EARLY PLANTAGENETS.
Page 2 - ... transported in the space of a few hours to coasts where neither vine nor olive will flourish. Thus, within a boundary of not more than two degrees of latitude, the land of Greece reaches from the beeches of Pindus into the climate of the palm ; nor is there on the entire known surface of the globe any other region in which the different zones of climate and flora meet one another in so rapid. a succession.
Page 123 - if I were Parmemon.' lliese terms were, the payment of 10,000 talents as the ransom for his family, the cession of all provinces west 'of the Euphrates, and the hand of his daughter in marriage.
Page ii - London : LONGMANS, GREEN. & CO. Edited by MANDELL CREIGHTON, DD LL.D. BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH. EARLY ENGLAND TO THE NORMAN CONQUEST. By F. YORK POWELL, MA it. ENGLAND A CONTINENTAL POWER, 1066-1216, By Mrs. MANDELL CRBIGHTON.